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... March 31-April 4, 2025

5th Grade Families,

Happy Friday everyone! Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for Family Day - I hope you had a nice time visiting our classrooms.  I wish you all a fun and restful spring break!  Use this time to refuel and be ready to finish our "5th grade race" strong!  When we return, 4th quarter will start, things will get busy around here, the weather will get nicer and time is going to fly!  Don’t forget your washed gym uniform - you will need it right away on Tuesday and every day for the rest of the year.  God’s Blessings!  Mrs. Zvara

IMPORTANT DATES:

📅 COMING SOON / PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR:

  • Mar 21: Family Day, 10:45am dismissal, Spring Break to Follow
  • March 24-28: NO SCHOOL - SPRING BREAK
  • April 1: Easton’s Pizza - March Reading Log DUE
  • April 4: WODF Project Drop Off
  • April 4: “March” Madness Family Fun Event @ 6pm
  • April 5-6: WODF Projects on Display in the FLC/Cafeteria
  • April 18:  Good Friday - NO SCHOOL 
  • April 21:  Easter Monday - NO SCHOOL (pending no snow days between now and then!)

📅 Right Around the Corner

  • Apr 24:  Parent-Teacher Conferences, by appointment only
  • May 12-16: Spring MAP TESTING
  • May 5: 5th Grade Riveredge Field Trip
  • May 8: Spring Choir/Band Concert
  • May 23: 1/2 Day  11:40 Dismissal
  • May 26:  NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day
  • May 27: 5th Grade Field Trip
  • May 29: Track & Field Day
  • May 30: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL & Closing Chapel Service with 10:00 dismissal

INFORMATION/UPDATES:

🌐World of Discovery Fair: ONLY 3 WEEKS TO GO!  Now that projects have been approved, your child may get to work! Each project requires a display, a 300 word written report with sources cited (bibliography), and a logbook that tracks what is accomplished each time the project is worked on. For more specifics, check out the directions here: https://shorturl.at/iB0U0. Project drop off date will be Friday April 4th after school.  

🍕📖Eaton’s Pizza Reading Challenge: Eatons Pizza is offering a free personal pizza to 5th grade students who read 400 minutes for the month of March Calendars are available outside of Mrs. Wulfkuhle’s 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, April 1. 

✝️Lutheran Junior Honor Association (LJHA) Information...This coming August, our fifth graders will have the opportunity to apply for membership into the Junior Lutheran National Honor Association (LJHA) if they are able to meet the criteria set forth. If you are interested in this honor, please see my detailed email from 3/13. I will discuss this opportunity briefly with the fifth graders this coming week and they will have an opportunity to ask questions.  Please know that many more details will be sent from the NJHA Coordinators - Mrs. Yurk, Mrs. Wulfkuhle, & Mr. Fischer in a couple of months.  

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Writing

When we return from break, we will continue in our persuasive writing unit. Nothing major will be due this week.

Health

Make an album, Google Slides, or a poster, of the life cycle stages
Use your family members (same person or different people is ok!)
Identify which stage the person is in the picture is in.  Due Friday, March 14th.
 
Infancy
Early Childhood 1-3
Middle Childhood 3-6
Late Childhood 6-12
Adolescence 13-18
Adulthood 

Math

MATH BLOCKS:  TUESDAY & THURSDAY      When we return from spring break, we will continue working on Unit 11: Multiplying Fractions.

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

When we return from break, we will begin preparing for our Advocacy speeches. I am envisioning a Ted-Talk sort of situation where each student will choose a topic that they feel passionate about, conduct research, and put together a persuasive presentation to advocate for their topic. This week will be all about the research and building of the speech. Speeches will take place next week.

Religion

5th Religion This week in 5th Religion we will be talking Sort It Out in Friendzy and Samson the Champion and about Samson’s Fall and Death. Memory Quiz #26 - Due Friday April 4th. Matthew 5:16 ~ In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Science

SCIENCE BLOCKS: MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY     This week, we will continue our 5th unit on "Systems in Space".  This week, we will be learning about Earth’s movements and about how Earth's movements create the patterns we observe -  such as gravity, shadows, day & night, the seasons, and even constellation patterns. Students will inquire, research and investigate to help them learn about each of these topics.  Students will continue to do quite a bit of writing at the end of each mini-lesson, summarizing what they have learned to help them answer our lesson question.  This topic will continue the week we return from spring break.

Social Studies

We will be finishing our unit on the Civil War/Reconstruction this week.  We will probably not make it to our test, so hold onto your hats for more information about that!

Vocab

We will begin unit 12 this week. 
  • Homework: Pg. 122-124 (due Thursday) All words must be written and 1 page must be completed in cursive. 
  • Quiz: Friday 4/4
  • 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!