Fifth Grade News

Curriculum Highlights
Cowlishaw Elementary School

Literacy:  Ongoing grammar study Mathematics Issue 4

Focus Skills/Strategies
 Drawing Conclusions
 Adjusting Reading Rate 
 Summarize & Para-
phrase
 Use Context to Clarify
Word Meaning
 Prefix, Suffix, and
Roots
**Please remember to read
Focus
with your child using the
 Electricity and Magnet-
weekly fluency sheets.
Writing:
Focus
 Revising and Editing
 Incorporate technology Focus
 Conferencing December 2010
Grade 5
Book Review  Unit 4-Division
Social Studies  Unit 5– Fraction, Deci- Fifth Grade Team:
Focus mals, and Percents  Jan Kelly:
 Spain Builds an Empire jan_kelly@ipsd.org
 The Struggle to Found Accelerated Math  Ryan Klein:
Colonies  Unit 5—Geometry: Con-
ryan_klein@ipsd.org
Science gruence, Constructions,  Christi Grezlik:
christi_grezlik@ipsd.org
and Parallel Lines
 Tamela Williams: tam-
ela_williams@ipsd.org
ism
Spelling  Julee DeGeus:
julee_degeus@ipsd.org
Focus

 Five Paragraph Exposi-  Word Study Reminder:

tory Paper  Weekly spelling units  The weather is
getting colder.
Please make sure
your child has on
appropriate cold
weather gear for
Fifth Grade Happenings outdoor recess.

Dec. 1- Picture Retakes Dec. 11– Holiday Shop

10 am– 2 pm
Dec. 2 – Chorus Concert
7:00 Dec. 21 – Winter Room Party
2:30—3:15
Dec.3 – Progress Reports
Students whose current grade Dec. 22– Jan. 4—No School
is a C or lower will receive a Winter Break
progress report.
Jan. 5—School resumes