2023 - 2024 School Year
Welcome!
As we wrap up the third quarter and begin our fourth and final quarter of the year, I am determined to make sure students reach their full potential while also having fun and making memories that will last a lifetime.
This quarter, students will be learning about primary and secondary sources, text structures, and relationships between two or more ideas in a text. We will also be working hard to use two or more texts to write about one topic. In other words, they will be finding similarities in the texts while utilizing evidence from both texts in their written response.
This quarter, students will be participating in music class.
**Please see "Week at a Glance" section for more detailed plans for each day of the week.**
Important Dates
Thursday, May 16 - Step Up Day at Hickory Creek
Friday, May 24 - SIP day; early dismissal at 12:05
Monday, May 27 - No school (holiday)
Tuesday, June 11 - SIP day; early dismissal at 12:05; Last day of school
Theme Thursdays
Remind Updates
Our Encore classes for the year are as follows:
Quarter 4 - Music with Mrs. Zito
We have PE every day - please remember to have appropriate gym shoes with you each day.
My ELA classes will visit the library on Fridays.
E-Learning Plan
In the event of the need to call an e-learning day, we will be utilizing the schedule located at the bottom of my page. E-learning days will only be called if we have fair warning of severe inclement weather and have time to send students home with all their materials and devices.
Quarter 3
Essential Question: What is the value of adapting?
Novel: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- L 5.2 – I can demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Reading Literature Standards:
- RL 5.1 I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- RL 5.2 I can determine a theme of a text, including how characters respond to challenges; summarize a text
- RL 5.4 I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, recognizing specific word choices that contribute to meaning and tone.
- RL 5.5 I can explain how chapters, scenes, or stanzas provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
- RL 5.6 I can describe how a narrator or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
- RL 5.9 I can compare and contrast stories in the same genre according to similar themes and topics.
Reading Information Standards:
- RI 5.1 I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- RI 5.3 I can explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts.
- RI 5.4 I can determine the meaning of general academic and domain specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject are and by using context clues.
- RI 5.9 I can integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write about the subject.
