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Fifth Grade
Instructor: Mrs. Mapes   
The Holiday Season Here!

It is very difficult to believe that the holiday season is almost here! The school year is going so quickly.

Our class continues to stretch and grow each day. Many students are reaching goals that they have set for themselves in all academic areas.  I am so proud of the progress and the motivation of each of my students.  They are working so hard to master fifth grade objectives and this is not an easy task! I encourage my students to keep up the good work. They know that their future success depends on the time and effort they put into each academic area.  Bravo!!

I would also like to take the time to wish all of my students and their families a merry Christmas and happy New year!!






Fifth Grade Calendar
My conference hour is 10:35-11:25.  Feel free to contact me during this time or after school. 
A Note From Mrs. Mapes
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Look! It's Christopher Columbus begging Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for expedition money!
Curriculum Update
MATH

In math, some of the objectives will include:
  • Division Patterns 
  • Estimating quotients
  • Prime Factorization
  • Dividing problems with one divisor and up to four digit dividends
  • Dividing problems with two divisors and up to five digit dividends
  • Decimal patterns in division
  • Dividing whole numbers and decimals
  • Dividing decimals by decimals
  • Story problems (making an organized list to solve problems, using T.I.P.S.)

LANGUAGE ARTS

In Language Arts, objectives will include:
  • We will continue to work on the following reading skills: cause/effect, inferencing, fact/opinion, predicting, literary skills, and nonfiction strategies for reading. 
  • Spelling will include learning the word wall words as well as transfer words that are associated through common prefixes, suffixes, and base words. 
  • Informational reading strategies for comprehension 
  • We will begin Unit 2 in Write Steps. Our writing focus will be solid paragraph writing with strong topic sentences. 
SOCIAL STUDIES

In Social Studies, objectives will include:
  • We will begin chapter 4: How and Why Europeans Came to the New World
  • Map skills
SCIENCE

In Science, objectives will include:
  • The scientific process will continue to be a focus the entire school year.
  • Our unit on space exploration will continue and we do hope to finish by Christmas break. Our final test will be the vocabulary words introduced in this unit. 


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