Update for 9/17

         Dear Parents,

         The Rotary Club will be visiting our 5th grade classes tomorrow to pass out dictionaries and thesauruses which is always such a nice gift. :)   On Wednesday, Mr. Funn from the Alliance Theater will be coming for our first Digital Storytelling session!  Signed papers will go home this week so please review them with your child, then sign them and turn them back in on Friday.

          In Science, we are exploring Electricity (static electricity, circuits. electricity examples in nature, and human-harnessed electrical uses) and will have our first quiz this Friday, 9/21.

Review Electricity Concepts for Quiz: Students Should Know:  -Static electricity is caused by mixing and rearrangement of positive and negative charges.  -Like charges repel and unlike charges attract.  -Electricity can only work in a closed circuit.  -If a circuit does not include all of the necessary components, it is an open circuit and will not work. - Electricity flows through some objects (conductors) easily.  -Electricity does not flow through insulators. Students Should Understand: Electricity is the movement of electrons through a closed circuit. The relationship between magnetism and electricity is based on positive and negative charges attracting and repelling each other. Students Should Remember: -Our investigations of static electricity.  -How to determine the necessary and unnecessary components for completing an electric circuit.  -Our investigations  of common materials to determine if they are insulators or conductors of electricity.    In 5.1 math, students will begin to review the Powers of Ten while 6.1 students explore the concepts in dividing fractions. 6.1 Keep, Change, Flip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMZJKGyu-Kk http://safeyoutube.net/w/vxgb 5.1 https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fifth-grade-math/cc-5th-place-value-decimals-top/cc-5th-intro-powers-of-ten/e/powers-of-ten 5th grade math standards:   MGSE.5.NBT.1 Recognize that in a multidigit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left. MGSE.5.NBT.2 Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10.                                           6th grade math standards: MGSE6.NS.1 Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, including reasoning strategies such as using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.