Team Commitment Teachers-   (L to R) Mrs. Astrachan (ELA), Mr. Kinneman (Math/Social Studies), Mrs. Ilgenfritz (Math/Science), Mrs. Marsh (ELA)

The fifth grade curriculum has a variety of interesting units. In Language Arts, we will work on mastering different comprehension strategies and identifying story elements through our Balanced Literacy Framework. We will read a variety of genres. We will publish poetry, narrative, informative, and opinion pieces. Writing will be assessed on focus, content, organization, style, and conventions. In Math, we will focus on understanding, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers, decimals, and fractions. There will also be units on geometry, measurement, algebra, and probability. Science units will include the Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences. Our Social Studies curriculum will begin with the many explorers who traveled to this land and finish with the battles fought to establish the United States of America. Learning about how our great nation was formed and how it is governed will help to make us better citizens. We will surely be very busy this year in all of these subjects.

Team Quote:  If you are going to leave footprints in the sands of time, you better wear work boots.

Save the Date!

August 15: Grade 4 & New Family Scavenger Hunt (1 – 4 PM) August 20: Grade 4 Parent Orientation (6:00 PM) August 20: Grade 5 Parent Orientation (7:10 PM)

Team School Supply List:

• soft-sided zippered pencil pouch large enough to hold pencils, colored pencils & glue sticks (please no hard plastic pencil boxes)

• 1 pack of pencils (sharpened)

• 1 pack of colored pencils

• 4 -two-pocket plastic folders (one green, one red, one yellow, one blue) These will be labeled at school.

• 3– two-pocket folders color/design of your choice

• 2 large glue sticks

• 2 hardcover composition notebooks w/ 100 sheets

• 1 pack of dry erase markers

• earbuds (to fit in pencil pouch)

Encore Schedule