Junior Achievement Trip

Grade 5 will be going to Junior Achievement Biz-Town On February 28th. We have been working hard to teach students economics! Please help at home by assisting your student in writing checks!

• Have your child fill out a check for you!


• Have your child practice his or her signature


• Have your child sit with you when paying bills: teaches your student the reality of their Biz-Town experience!

Reading Week of February 20th-24th

This week we are reading "Trickster Tales"

Skill of the week Author's Purpose

Vocabulary This Week:

1. riverbank


2. wares


3. treasurer


4. merchandise


5. educate


6. burdens


7. appreciation


8. unfortunate

Working with Analogies: Analogies help you see the relationship between words. If you know the relationship between one pair of words, you can figure out the meaning of an unfamilar word in the second pair of words. For example, happy is to mournful as fortunate is to unfortunate.

Reading "Anansi and Common Sense" A Stage Play By: Trey Reeves

"The Catch Of The Day" A Trickster Play, written by: Angela Shelf Medearis Illustrated by: Wendy Born Hollnader

Websites:

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/tricksters/

http://www.takomapark.info/library/children/archives/000340.html

http://activities.macmillanmh.com/reading/treasures/stories/story_lessonlist/51040148.html

Grade 5 Math Formulas for Topic 17 Math

I Do:

Students use I Do when completing problems individually.

For Topic 17 (Area of a parallelogram, circle, triangle) we used several Formulas:

Area of a triangle A= (bxh) divided by 2
Area of a circle Use PIr2 3.14 x (rxr) *Students must remember to multiply not add radius!

Area of a parallelogram (bxh) You must cut and shape into a rectangle!