Thank you for sharing your wonderful kids with us! This has been the best school start-up of my career! High 5 to the parents! I am so happy to get this group of kids back. We did not get to finish our third-grade year the way we expected, so it is good to be with this group again for 5th grade… face to face & mask optional! I love these faces!

 

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English / Grammar

 

We will be reviewing parts of speech this week and begin using Mentor Sentences to explore what makes a well-written sentence and how/when to edit. Here is how that works:

Each week we will explore a sentence taken from a familiar children’s literature selection.

Monday – We will read and discuss the sentence. We will identify parts of speech, subject & predicate, mood, or any other features. 

Tuesday – We will label the sentence and identify features in writing.

Wednesday – We will discuss how we could change the sentence to make it better (more specific or clear).

Thursday – We will use the sentence as a model for a sentence we create ourselves and discuss how it is alike and different from the original. 

Friday – Students will show what they learned on a quiz. 

 

Social Studies

 

This week we will be talking about map skills and vocabulary. This should mostly be a review of familiar terms and concepts that we will use as we discuss each section of American History going forward.

We will work in small groups to look at a variety of maps and identify items on the map using a map key. We will also touch on the location of the Appalachian Mountains, Great Lakes, Great Planes, Rocky Mountains, Mississippi River, regions in the U.S., five largest cities, and patterns of settlement.