Welcome to 5th Grade!

Reading
Analyzying characters and how the characters, events and setting affect the plot will be our main focus over the next few weeks. Getting the children to recognize the theme in any reading piece is getting easier. Forming constructed responses to liturature is coming along quite niecely. I'm quite sure they are tired of me asking if they've followed the RACE strategy.

Restate the question
Answer all parts of the questions
Cite evidence
Explain the importance of the citation or answer

Language Arts
Informative writing is our focus for the remainder of this semester. We are working on how to research and what are repuatble resources as well as the format of an informational writing piece.
We will continue to revisit Capitilazation and Punctuation throughout the rest of the semester. 

Social Studies
To begin our Social Studies year, we will research Early Native American groups living in different regions of the United states and how they developed special characteristics. We are also resarching a Native American group and an aspect of their daily life (shelter, tools, clothing, religious practices/culture) to wrap up the semseter.  

Links for important websties:
iXL
Typing.com: 
Readworks

Please make sure you are checking this page for project, test and quiz information. It will be updated frequently. 

Train the young in the way they should go; even when old, they will not swerve from it.
Proverbs 22:6