Summer Resources

Dear 5B families,

Please see this list of summer resources to challenge
your child over the summer:

Summer Resources

Our last week of school!

Congratulations to our Archway scholars for a fantastic
year! I'm sure next year will bring many new challenges,
rewards, friendships, and discoveries. This year's fifth-
graders are well-equipped to take their next step.

There will be no tutoring this week.

Your child may wear his or her promotion t-shirt
to school on Friday, May 25 for classmates to
sign at the end-of-year celebration.

I hope everyone has a fantastic summer!

This week in science, students will finish their
children's biography and turn it in by the end of
the day on Monday. On Tuesday, science block
will be a study hall, so students should come
prepared with work.

In history, students will continue writing
and rehearsing their Russian monarch plays,
to be performed in class on Thursday.

This week in grammar, students will continue composing their 
myths or tall tales in class. On Tuesday, they will complete their
 final drafts and have the opportunity to illustrate their stories. On 
Wednesday and Thursday, students will share their final stories with the class.

Our week in learning 5/14

It is incredible that our final week of five full days has already arrived!
Next week brings promotion and our end-of-year celebration. I am so
proud of how far all our scholars have come.

This week in Language Arts, students will take their end-of-year grammar test 

and begin learning about myths, legends, and tall tales. At the end of the week, 

students will begin composing their own such fiction!

In Across Five Aprils, students will add finishing touches to their literature 

project on Tuesday to turn in on Wednesday.

• A title
• A summary of a Civil War battle or event (2 paragraph minimum)
• An opinion article (see handout for prompt; must include 2 quotations; 
  2-3 paragraph minimum)
• A Civil War era photograph to accompany the summary
• An advertisement of a Civil War era product

The project will be due on May 16th.

In history, students are wrapping up their exciting unit on 
Native Americans: Cultures and Conflicts. Students will learn about
 the Indian Wars, the Battle of Little Bighorn, Custer, Wovoka, and the 
Battle of Wounded Knee. The study guides are due Wednesday, 5/16 
and the test will be on Thursday, 5/17. On Friday, students will begin 
our final, short, non-tested unit on Russia.

This week in science, students will take their final unit exam of the year over
 the nervous system. On Tuesday, students will watch a short film about the 
chemist Percy Lavon Julian, and will have the opportunity to use biographical 
material to research his life and contributions to science. In groups of two, students
 will produce an illustrated children’s book about Julian’s life. They will have two 
full in-class days to complete this project, and should not need to work on it at 
home. The finished book is due next Monday. 

This week in math, students will complete their end-of-year Singapore math test.
This will not be taken for a grade. They will also complete some brainteasers
and learn about famous mathematicians. 

Our week in learning 5/7

Click here to play Nervous System Jeopardy!

The antepenultimate week of the 2017-2018 school year has arrived! This week,
students will continue to work on their literature projects; we will finish reading
Across Five Aprils; and students will prepare for their final science and grammar
exams of the year. Math groups will resume at 8:00 this Wednesday.

Clubs: The final day of clubs is Friday, May 11 (exception: K-1 Art).

Students will be completing their study of angles in math this week by studying the
 properties of quadrilaterals, as well as getting in some protractor practice by 
teaching each other how to draw quadrilaterals. To help review for the Friday test,
 students will be reviewing Thursday in class as well as creating a geometry toolkit 
 with all of our important concepts from this unit.  

This week in language arts, students will be reviewing their grammar notes from

 throughout the year in preparation for their end-of-year grammar test. In addition

 to reviewing their classification and diagramming skills, they will review parts of 

speech, predicate adjectives and nominatives, direct and indirect objects, pronouns 

and antecedents, rules for making a word possessive, and using colons and 

semicolons. On Wednesday, students should take home a practice test that will 

serve as a study guide for the test next Tuesday, May 15th.

In Across Five Aprils, students will finish the book and begin their final literature

 project: creating a newspaper page which contains:

• A title
• A summary of a Civil War battle or event (2 paragraph minimum)
• An opinion article (see handout for prompt; must include 2 quotations; 
  2-3 paragraph minimum)
• A Civil War era photograph to accompany the summary
• An advertisement of a Civil War era product

The project will be due on May 16th. Students will be given some time in class

 throughout the week, but this project should be largely completed at home. 

This week in science, students will finish learning about the nervous system by

 learning about the lobes of the brain and their functions. The study guide is due 

on Friday, and a review game will take place in class on Thursday. This will allow 

students to correct and clarify questions on their study guides before they are due. 

The nervous system unit test will be on Monday, May 14.

Students are beginning their exciting unit on Native Americans: Cultures and 

Conflicts. Students were separated into groups on Friday to read chapters about 

specific regions of Native Americans. In these groups, students will prepare a short

 15-minute lesson with notes about their chapter. Presentations will take place on 

Wednesday. We will also learn about relations between Indians and European settlers 

before the American Revolution, revisit the Louisiana Purchase, and the Trail of Tears. 

Students will also learn about the effects of European diseases on the Indian population, 

and the Sand Creek Massacre. Students already have their study guides for this 

short unit. The study guides are due Wednesday, 5/16 and the test will be on 

Thursday, 5/17.