5th Grade Newsletter: DECEMBER 7, 2015

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ickets are a hot item.  The students are earning them through reading, getting a perfect score on tests, fact-finding, answering questions correctly, exemplary behavior, team prizes to comprehension games, and more to buy various prizes—one, a lunch from me.

Adopt-a Family spots are being taken.  Please help bring in an item (see back for list) to fully cover the family’s wish list by the 17^th.  We have “elves” who can help wrap them.  Please be in prayer for them as the father is seriously ill.  If you would like to deliver the gifts to the family, please let me know as soon as possible.  There is no obligation: “Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:6-7). We want to give out of our joy and not out of legalism.  We learned first-hand that it is truly better to give than receive as the students, with faces beaming, stuffed Mrs. Graham’s van with Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes after the “Blessing of the Boxes” assembly.

Reading Great job!  We are a class of readers!  This month many read daily and won a coupon from Pizza Hut.  Also, many read each weekday to fulfill the independent reading requirement.  We finished our two novels and had a wonderful time celebrating with the movie of one.

Math lessons will be on adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators; short division; using fraction manipulatives, part 2; dividing remainders, part 2; and adding and subtracting whole numbers, fractions, and mixed numbers.

Language Arts Last week, we created “Color,” “Concrete,” and “Creature Alliteration” poems.  This week will be creating “Five Senses,” “Haiku,” and “Who-What-When-Where-Why” poems.  Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar (M.U.G.) Using italics (underlining) for titles of books, newspapers, magazines, and movies or for adding emphasis and using quotation marks for punctuating titles of parts of work will be practiced.  Spelling We are learning about the unstressed schwa words in lesson 11. Also in Vocabulary, we continue the study of the meaning of words in lesson 6 sections D and E.

Science We unearthed knowledge about dinosaurs.  Our next FIELD TRIP is to view the National Geographic Live! presentation of Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the Cretaceous with Nizar Ibrahim on Monday, January 25th, 2016.  Bring a sack lunch, and do not order a hot lunch for this day.  Also, there is limited seating, so six chaperones may join us.  If you are interested in attending, please email or send me a note with your child, and I will reserve your spot.  In History, we will learn about the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires.

PROGRESS REPORTS are being sent home today.  Please return only the envelope, signed.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO!!!

Have a blessed week, Mrs. Chang

Important Dates:

Dec. 7: Candy Gram Sales begin

Dec. 17: CCA Christmas Program 7:00 pm

Dec. 17: Passport Test; Adopt-a-Family

Dec. 18: Spirit Day—Living Ornaments

Dec 21-Jan 1: Christmas Break (NO SCHOOL)

Jan. 4: School Resumes

Jan 18: National Geographic Field trip

Spelling Challenge Words:

ignite and abandoned

Bible Memory Verse (BMV)—Joshua 1:7 

Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Due Dates:

Monday 7th	Tuesday 8th	Wednesday 9th	Thursday 10th	Friday 11th
Math Test 7 (L31-35)	Math Lesson 44	Math Lesson 45	Math Lesson 46	Math Lesson 47
		Spelling 11 and Cursive	Spelling Lesson Test 11	BMV Test
		Wordly Wise L6DE		Wordly Wise Test 5
				Health Quiz Part 2

SIGN-UP SHEET Family--Hardworking family; father has stage 4 cancer
Boy (16)	Pants (34x34)	Shirts (L)		Shoes (13)
Volunteer Student No.:
Girl (15)	Pants (15)	Shirt (M)	Shoes (10)	Bike	anything horse
Volunteer Student No.:
Girl (10)	Pants (12)	Shirts (M)	Shoes (7)	Bike	Dolls
Volunteer Student No.:					#6
Boy (2)	Clothes (3T)	Toddler toys		bike
Volunteer Student No.:	#12			#20
Mom	would be grateful for anything	would be grateful for anything		would be grateful for anything
Volunteer Student No.:
Dad	wool socks	wool shirts		anything to keep him warm
Volunteer Student No.:	#12			#5

5th Grade Newsletter: November 30, 2015

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uring our chapel last Tuesday, we learned about the ten lepers who were healed by Jesus.  Of the ten, we see that one went through the trouble to turn around and go back to God in order to offer Him thanks.  Of the first blessing (healing from leprosy), the second one was better—healing of his soul.  May we, also, like the Samaritan leper find ways to praise God by putting forth the effort to thank Him.

Adopt-a family is a way we can pay it forward by reaching out locally to families in need during the holidays.  These families do not have the means to celebrate Christmas, so we are able to provide them with material things with the support of others who will provide a tasty meal.  What a privilege it will be this holiday to share our blessings with our adopted family: boy (16), girl (15), girl (10), boy (2), Mom, and Dad. A specific list is attached.

Science We studied about fossil formation: fossils preserved in sediment and fossils preserved in other materials.  This week, we will learn about two ways of looking at fossils through evolution or creation and learning from fossils through their excavating, preparing, and reconstructing of them.  We will also learn about the dating of fossils.  In History, we will learn about the Canaanites and the Israelites conquest of Canaan, the Israel as a nation, and the Assyrian Empire. 

Math lessons will be on picturing fractions, part two; half of an odd number and fractions on a number line; comparing fractions by drawing pictures; and pictures of mixed numbers.

Reading We finish our reading of The Tale of Desperaux with a celebration of a movie and treats this Friday!  Bring a stuffed animal or pillows to get comfy.  Also, the November reading calendar is due tomorrow.

Language Arts We have poets, already, in our classroom.  Last week, we created “Alphabet Alliteration” and “Cinquain” peoms. This week will be creating “Color,” “Concrete,” and “Creature Alliteration” poems.   Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar (M.U.G.) Colons introduce a list in a sentence, express time, and make a formal introduction of a quotation.  Semicolons, also, will be examined.  Spelling We will not begin a new lesson this week in order to take the test on last week’s list. Also in Vocabulary, we continue our study of words by creating phrases (section A), substituting a phrase or word (section B), and word meaning study (section C).

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO!!!

Have a blessed week, Ms. Chang

Homework (read 20 minutes and study for Passport)…Please see your planners.

Bible Memory Verse (BMV)—Hebrews 10:11-12

And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.

Important Dates:

Nov. 30- Dec. 4: Box Tops Competition 

Dec. 7: Candy Gram Sales begin

Dec. 17: CCA Christmas Program 7:00 pm

Dec. 17: Passport to Geography Testing

Dec. 18: Spirit Day—Living Ornaments

TBA: Adopt-a-Child—helping a local family

Spelling Challenge Words:

illuminated and extraordinary

Due Dates:

Monday 30th	Tuesday 1st	Wednesday 2nd	Thursday 3rd	Friday 4th
Math Quiz 7 (L31-35)	Math Lesson 40	Math Lesson 41	Math Lesson 42	Math Lesson 43
	Reading Calendar	Spelling 10 and Cursive	Spelling Lesson Test 10	BMV Test
		Wordly Wise L6ABC		NEXT FRIDAY—Wordly Wise Test 5