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Religion

The Fifth Graders are using the We Believe Book as their religion book. We are working in Unit 1 which is entitled "Jesus Christ shares His Life with Us." The religion book is divided into gathering in prayer, listening to Scripture, discussing the lesson it is teaching us, talking about the lesson that Jesus wants us to learn, and then an assessment which sees whether the message has been received. Living the message is an ongoing process. In fifth grade we study the sacraments. Our first unit will talk about the Sacraments of Initiation . We will also look at the lives of the saints and how we can find inspiration in their lives.

The students will also be reading and discussing the Venture magazine on Fridays. This magazine includes the gospel reading for Sunday, discussion of it, and how this applies to our lives.

 

Math

Fifth grade Math is exciting. We use everything that has been learned in the previous grades. We have just completed Ch. 1 in which we worked with decimals, reading, rounding off, adding and subtracting them. In Ch. 2 we will be using our math facts to multiply and divide decimals.

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READING

This year we are using a new reading series entitled: Reading Street. In this series, we will be reading parts of stories, both fiction and nonfiction, and working on vocabulary, comprehension, and written response. We are finishing up the first unit entitled "Meeting Challenges" which had stories about people who had to face challenges in their lives, both big and small ones. The next unit is called "Doing the Right Thing". The stories will be about people and the choices they had to make.

The students will also be reading novels. They have read Lucy Whipple in September. In October they will be reading Swindle. The books are read and discussed during library time with an ending project.

A calendar has been sent home for nightly reading . This will be done each month and counts as extra reading checked on the student's report card.

 

Spelling 

We will be using a spelling book this year called "Spelling and Vocabulary". The book is divided into Cycles. Each cycle has six units, the last one being a review one. The students will take a pretest, do the pages in the book and take a posttest. Depending on the need, extra practice will be given. Below are the second five units in case the spelling book is forgotten on Thursday evening.

Unit 7	Unit 8	Unit 9	Unit 10	UNIT 11
hare	smear	basketball	poll	theater
scar	germ	wheelchair	pole	actor
torch	blur	cheerleader	main	mirror
soar	peer	newscast	mane	powder
harsh	stir	weekend	sole	humor
sore	squirm	everybody	soul	anger
lord	nerve	up-to-date	hall	banner
flair	early	grandparent	haul	pillar
warn	worth	first aid	peace	major
floor	pier	wildlife	piece	thunder
tore	thirst	highway	loan	flavor
lair	burnt	daytime	lone	finger
snare	rear	whoever	heal	mayor
carve	term	test tube	heel	polar
bore	steer	turnpike	flea	clover
fare	pearl	shipyard	flee	burglar
cork	squirt	homemade	pore	tractor
barge	stern	household	pour	matter
flare	hurl	salesperson	berry	lunar
rare	worse	brother-in-law	bury	quarter
horse	learn	afternoon	wait	enter
sharp	curve	ninety-nine	weight	honor
square	world	everywhere	meet	answer
stairs	firm	all right	meat	collar
board	year	breakfast	canvass	doctor
folklore	interpret	extraordinary	canvas	character
unicorn	yearn	self-assured	stationary	clamor
ordeal	emerge	quick-witted	stationery	tremor
marvelous	dreary	limelight		scholar

hoard

career

junior high school

chamber

Templet, Shane. Spelling and Vocabulary. Houghton Mifflin. 2000.

 

Science

The first month of school has found us looking at the kingdoms. We have watched yeast grow and been awed. We grew mold and were disgusted. We germinated seeds and dissected them to see the parts that turn into plants and we have taken apart flowers to find the male and female parts. All in the name of science!

 

 

 

 

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