Welcome to 5Welcome to 5thth Grade GradeWelcome to 5Welcome to 5thth Grade Grade

Reader’s Workshop&

Writer’s Workshop

• Focus lesson • Independent Reading/ Writing time

– Teacher Conference– Peer Conferring– Small group strategy instruction

• Group Share

• Use Harcourt Language text for Grammar

• Word Study

• Daily Language Review

Poetry Jam

Wax Museum

Math

Study Links – homework every night!

Jump around in topics and units

Science• Life Science(Organisms and their

environment, life cycles & heredity)

• Earth Science(Structure of the Earth,

Earth’s history, Earth in the Solar System)

• Physical Science(Different types of

Energy, electricity and simple circuits, electromagnets)

• Hands-on labs and lab reports

Ferry Beach Ecology School

• 5 day long trip in October• Saco, Maine

Ferry Beach Forms

• Ferry Beach permission slip due June 12th

• Medical forms due October 1st

Cool projects!

Social Studies/ HistoryBook 1: The First

Americans

Book 2: Making Thirteen Colonies

Book 3: From Colonies to Country

Book 4: The New Nation

Supplemental materials

Grades and Report Cards

Homework• Assignment

notebooks• Homework Board• Late Slips• Marbles• Plan for 30 – 60

minutes per night

Supplies• 1 hard one inch binder• at least five binder tab dividers• 2 plain pocket folders• 1 composition notebooks• 1 five subject spiral notebook with pockets• 3 single subject notebooks• 1 highlighter• pencils• 1 seven pocket accordion folder• 1 erasable red pen• 1 erasable black pen• 1 basic clipboard• 1 pencil box (no larger than 8x3x1)• 1 glue stick• 1 package of post-its• 1 black permanent marker• 1 pencil eraser• 1 simple/ affordable calculator• A 3 ½ gal zip lock bag

Supplies for Homedictionarycolored pencilsPencils

Access to a computer, internet and printer

*label all supplies with initials (including pencils)

5th Grade Summer Reading

3 “Just Right” Books• Title____________________________________________

• Author__________________________________________

• Setting

• Description of Main Characters

• Summarize the book

• Draw a picture of your favorite scene

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Suggested Authors You are required to read one book by one of the following authors:

Avi Babbit, Natalie Christopher, Matt Clements, Andrew Creech, Sharon Curtis, Christopher Paul Dahl, Roald DiCamillo, Kate Fleishman, Paul Gutman, Dan Haddix, Margaret Peterson Hesse, Karen Hinton, S.E. L'engle, Madeline Lewis, C.S.

O'Dell, Scott Paterson, Katherine Paulson, Gary Peck, Richard Riordan, Rick Rowling, J .K. Sachar, Louis Snickett, Lemony Speare, Elizabeth George Spinelli, J erry Soto, Gary White, E.B. Yolen, J ane Wilder, Laura I ngalls

Suggested Authors

You are required to read at least two books from the following list of authors:

Letter to the Teachers

Please write a letter to your future 5th grade teacher.

• What should we know about you?• What do you like about school?• What are your strengths?

*Be sure to sign your letter with your FULL name