Fifth Grade and Language Arts

Elizabeth Wulfkuhle • 1-262-377-4659 x135 • elizabeth.wulfkuhle@splgrafton.org

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January 20 - 24th

 IMPORTANT DATES:

  • Thurs January 23- Student-Led Parent/Teacher Conferences (3:30-7pm) 
  • Fri January 24 - NO SCHOOL 
  • Fri January 24 - Student-Led Parent/Teacher Conferences (9am-1pm) 
  • Sun January 26 - WE SING IN CHURCH! (See details below) 
  • Mon January 27- Fri January 31 - National Lutheran Schools Week

5th Grade Singing Schedule

  •  Sunday January 26th (A-J Last name @ 8am // K-Z Last name @ 9:30am) 
  •  Sunday April 13th (K-Z Last name @ 8am // A-J Last name @ 9:30am) 

Eaton’s Pizza Reading Challenge: January calendars are due by Tuesday 2/4 and need a parent signature. The goal is to read 450 minutes. 

Student-Led conferences: Please plan to meet for conferences in January. These are student-led and mandatory for all students to attend.

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Writing

This week, we will organize our research and begin drafting our Research Reports. We will wrap up our Grammar unit that focuses on complex sentences.

Health

Math

MATH BLOCKS: TUESDAY & THURSDAY     This week Unit 7 will cover strategies for dividing with whole numbers including “Partial Quotients”, “short division” (a.k.a. “Box Method”) and Long Division. No major tests or projects are planned. 

Music

School-Wide Notes… Details on Ms Bremer's music page Classes singing in Worship… (keep watch for changes) 
  • Sun, Sept. 8 - Gr. K-8 - 11am Outdoor Worship - bring chairs & blankets to sit on!
  • Sun., Oct. 27, 9:30am Gr. 4-5 sing in Worship (Reformation)
Choir/JuBellate Notes… * Groups & Schedules  ** Extracurricular Handbook  
  1. JiVE (Gr. 5-8) - Rehearsals start Wed, Sept 11 & first sing for worship, Sun. Oct. 13, meet 7:40am
  2. JuBellate (Gr. 5-8) - Rehearsals start Mon, Sept 16 & first play for worship, Sat. Nov 2, meet 4:30pm
Eligibility checked every 2 weeks (Gr. 5-8) for students in extracurricular Music Groups  General Music Class… 
  • Gr. 5 - Ms Valerie Bremer, teacher
  • Bands - Mrs. Heide Young, teacher

PE

Please have your inside shoes, pe uniform shirt, and athletic shorts ready to go.  Also, be sure to review grading for Mr. Fischer's pe class which is available on my webpage links. 

Reading

We are currently reading our class novel, Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan. There may be some nightly reading and stop-and-jots to complete. Please make sure your child has post-its for this purpose.
Please be aware that this novel does have some more mature concepts in it, but we read these sections together as a class, and I lead the conversations around them. My goal is to always push empathy and compassion for others. If you would like to know more, please check out the Common Sense Media page: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/becoming-naomi-leon. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me.

Religion

5th Religion This week we are learning about The Tabernacle and The Day of Atonement.     Memory Quiz #18 - Due Friday, Jan. 24th Psalm 122:1 ~ I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

Science

SCIENCE BLOCKS:  MONDAY, WEDNESDAY Unit 4: How Matter Changes: We will learn many ways matter can be changed - including mixtures and solutions and also changes in its state and we will do a deep dive into chemical and physical changes. We will think about what evidence helps scientists understand what kind of change has taken place. We will also continue our short detour and work on learning how to WRITE like a scientist so that we can improve our technical writing in science.  Last week, we learned a writing format called “C.E.R.” which stands for Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning. This week, we will get an opportunity to practice using this framework to write. No major projects or tests are planned.

Social Studies

5th grade will have a Unit 4 Test on Thursday, January 23rd.  They already have their review sheet half filled out.

Vocab

We will begin unit 8 this week . 
  • Homework: Pg. 82-84 (at least one page in cursive) due Thursday 
  • Quiz: Thursday January 23rd
  • Resources: Unit words can be found on Google Classroom and the sidebar of Mrs. Wulfkuhle’s webpage.

Quarter Class

The Wulfkuhle homeroom will be in Art with Mrs. Schumann for 3rd quarter.