Fifth Grade and Math and Science

Kim Zvara • 1-262-377-4659 x120 • kim.zvara@splgrafton.org

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Fifth Grade Weekly Update...Nov 11-15, 2024

5th Grade Families,

Happy Veteran's Day (or weekend)!  We are entering the last full week of the first trimester... Last chance to turn in missing work or finish any corrections on assessments.  Blessings on your weekend.  

IMPORTANT DATES:

  📅 COMING SOON / PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR:

  • Nov 15: End of Trimester 1
  • Nov 25-29: NO SCHOOL - THANKSGIVING BREAK
  • Dec 5: Middle School Christmas Program, 6:30 pm

📅 Right Around the Corner

  • Dec 7: Cookie Walk
  • Dec 8: Jesus Is the Reason Breakfast & Performances
  • Dec 13: Christmas Band/Choir Concert
  • Dec 23-Jan 3: NO SCHOOL Christmas Break

INFORMATION/UPDATES:

🍕📚Eaton’s Pizza Reading Challenge: Eatons Pizza is offering a free personal pizza to 5th grade students who read 400 minutes in the month of November. Calendars are available in my classroom. To earn a pizza, students need to document the number of minutes they read each day. At the end of the month, calendars will need a parent signature. Due date is Tuesday December 3rd.

🎨🧁Interest Day is a special school day where students attend different hands-on classes in a variety of areas.  In the past, we have offered cooking, crafts, woods, sports and music classes, just to name a few.  This school year, our Interest Day will be held on the morning of Friday, March 7.  We are always looking for any new ideas for classes.  We also need volunteers to lead a session.  If you have any ideas, or you or someone you know would like to lead a class, please contact one of our committee members:Amy Steiner: amy.steiner@splgrafton.org  Jenny Clemens: jennifer.clemens@splgrafton.org  Lisa Frinzi: lisa.frinzi@splgrafton.org  Shelby Nauta: shelby.nauta@splgrafton.org  Rachel Nelsen: rachel.nelsen@splgrafton.org   Amy Schumacher: amy.schumacher@splgrafton.org

🔚🔚End of Trimester:  Last week of the first trimester... Last chance to turn in missing work, finish any corrections on assessments, and improve class averages with higher scores.  Time to start reflecting on the successes and challenges of the 1st trimester and thinking about goals for the 2nd trimester.

✏️🖍️✂️Class Supplies: Many students are starting to not have required supplies for classes.  This is a great opportunity to check in with your student and replenish any supplies that have been lost, broken, or used up.  Pay special attention to the following items: glue sticks, EXPO markers, pencils, small supply bags and coloring supplies. These are the items that many 5th graders have been missing. While it is nice for kids to share, some of them seem to think their classmates are required to supply them with items they aren't being responsible for on a regular basis. Thanks for your help with this.

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Music & Choir

Writing

*Change of plans per my webpage update last week* We will begin working on our first persuasive writing product: a spring break recommendation. Each student will determine where they would like to spend spring break, and then write a persuasive letter to their parents. We will begin drafting this week, with a final draft due sometime early next week. All drafting will be done on the Writing Google Classroom.

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Math

MATH BLOCKS:  MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY        This week, we will wrap up our unit working on solving problems that involve adding and subtracting decimals. We will review and plan to take our UNIT 4 TEST on adding & subtracting decimals on Wednesday, November 13.   I will send an email early next week. At the end of the week, we will  learn about exponents and powers of 10, review our multiplication facts, and ESTIMATE products using mental math.

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

This week, we will learn about the in’s and out’s of text organization of nonfiction texts. This will help us understand the value of text features and how they build our understanding of a topic. 

Religion

This week we are discussing Stress Less- Breathe Easy in Friendzy and Joseph Makes Himself Known and The Deaths of Jacob and Joseph.     Memory Quiz #11 - November 15 Romans 8:28 ~ And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Science

SCIENCE BLOCKS: TUESDAY & THURSDAY MEET AN ENGINEER UPDATE: So far, we have had 1 real-life engineer visit our classroom… (A Mechanical Engineer - ask your child about it!  On Thursday, we will get one more visit from a Civil Engineer.  Check out some PHOTOS HERE. CATAPULT PROJECT UPDATE & PHOTOS: We will wrap up and clean up after our Pumpkin Chuckin' Engineering Task. I am SO impressed by the originality and the creativity of the catapults this year!  Check out some PHOTOS HERE.   NEXT WEEK: We will wrap up our engineering unit by learning about bioengineering and prosthetics. This week, students will do a small research project on prosthetics. We will review and take our Unit 2 Engineering & Design Test on Wednesday, Nov 20. I will send an email with more details.

Social Studies

UNIT 2 TEST WEDNESDAY!  Review sheet will go home on Monday for this test.

Vocab

We will begin unit 5 this week! 
  • Homework: Pg. 50-52 due Thursday (All words must be written out. 1 page must be completed with cursive) 
  • Quiz: Friday November 15th
  • Resources: Unit words can be found on Google Classroom and the sidebar of Mrs. Wulfkuhle’s webpage.

Quarter Class

Each week, we are asking that you sit down together (mom/dad and child) to have a family meeting. Check grades on Fast Direct, look at homework on the webpage, and talk about what you have going on for the week. Parent NEEDS to sign the assignment notebook.  That states that you had your meeting and I give your child 10 points. Thank you for taking this valuable time – 10 minutes can set the tone for the whole week!