Fifth Grade Newsletter

We are excited to begin a new school year with you! Fifth grade is an important year as students take on new challenges, build confidence, and become more independent learners. We look forward to getting to know our students, creating strong classroom communities, and working together with families to support a successful year. We’re glad you’re here and look forward to a great year ahead!

Please take a moment to fill out the transportation form (for the office). This will help ensure that all staff knows where students need to go, so that we can help make sure everyone gets to the right spot during dismissal (especially those first few days.) Thank you so much for your help with this!

Throughout the year, we’ll have several opportunities for parents to volunteer and join us for different activities and events. If you think you might be interested in volunteering, please create a VOLY account by visiting the LISD VOLY website. LISD Board Policy requires all volunteers to complete a background check before working with students, and you’ll be prompted to complete that process when you create your account. Approval can take two to three weeks, so we encourage you to take care of this early. We would hate for you to miss an opportunity to volunteer or chaperone because your approval is still being processed.

Unit 1

Big Ideas:

• Establish habits of readers and writers

• Set a purpose for reading and writing

• Self-select text to read

• Collect ideas for writing

• Use a process for writing

• Respond to and interact with text

• Consider an author’s purpose and learn from authors

• Set goals as readers and writers

What Is a Mathematician, and What Do They Do?

Big Ideas:

• Apply, represent, and communicate mathematical thinking to solve real-world problems

• Analyze mathematical relationships to make connections, develop strategies, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments

• Understand that representing a problem helps them develop an appropriate problem solving plan

Matter & Energy

Unit 1: Working Like a Scientist with States of Matter

• identify and use patterns to explain scientific phenomena or to design solutions

• illustrate how matter is made up of particles that are too small to be seen such as air in a balloon.

• compare and contrast matter based on measurable, testable, or observable physical properties, including mass, physical state (solid, liquid, gas),volume

• demonstrate safe practices and the use of safety equipment during classroom and field investigations as outlined in Texas Education Agency-approved safety standards;

• use tools, including microscopes, graduated cylinders, beakers, hot plates, notebooks, to observe, measure, test, and analyze information;

• develop and use models to represent phenomena, objects, and processes or design a prototype for a solution to a problem.

Unit 1

Big Ideas:

• Apply and use geographic tools to collect information

• Describe/compare physical and human geographic regions in the United States

• Identify how historic documents protect our freedoms and human rights

Juno Forbus

Math/Science

forbusak@lisd.net

Jessica Ginn

Math/Science

ginnj@lisd.net

Perri Lewis

RLA/S.S.

lewisp@lisd.net

Amanda Norman

RLA/S.S.

normana@lisd.net

Ben Meyercord-Westerman (M-Dubs)

Special Education

meyercord-westermanb@lisd.net