Thursday, January 29, 2026

Week 21- February 3 - February 9

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5th Grade
Week 21
Tuesday
2/3/2026
Wednesday
2/4/2026
Thursday
2/5/2026
Friday
2/6/2026

Monday
2/9/2026

VirtuesHUMILITY: "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves." Philippians 2:3
JUSTICE: "But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" Amos 5:24
FAITH: “'Have faith in God,' Jesus answered. 'Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.'" Mark 11:22-23
BiblePsalm 89Read and discuss Psalms 90-91. Answer questions in booklet.Psalms 92-93Read and discuss Psalms 94-95. Answer questions in booklet.Virtue Reflection. Answer questions in booklet.
MathMultiplication Facts TEST. Ch10, L3 (Multiplying by 0.1 or 0.01) - TG p57-59; TB p52-55; WB Ex3, p40-42FP-S. Ch10, L4 (Multiplying by a Decimal) - TG p60-64; TB p56-61; WB Ex4, p43-45. NOTE: Show students all three methods so they grasp the number sense, but focus on teaching and mastering Method 3.FP-M. Ch10, L5 (Practice A) - TG p46; TB p62-63, selected problems.FP-D. Ch10, L6 (Dividing a Decimal by a Whole Number) - TG p66-68; TB p64-68; WB Ex6, p51-53, #3, 4, 9, 10FP-A. Ch10, L7 (Dividing a Decimal by a Whole Number, Part 2) - TG p69-70; TB p69-71; WB Ex7, p55, #4.
SpellingSTEP 19: Review card box. Dictate sentences 5-8. (Tomorrow's test will cover 10 randomly chosen words from the list.)STEP 19: QUIZSTEP 20: New teaching. Dictate new words.STEP 20: Dictate sentences 1-4.
GrammarCh20, L1 - Grammar Time, Skill Time (teach degrees of adjectives), Practice TimeCh20, L2 - allCh20, L3 - Grammar Time, Practice TimeCh20, L4 - Jingle Time and Test Time for practice only (skip Ex2&6)
Writing/
Vocabulary
VOCAB WORDS: enthrall, persistent, emblem, elated
L21 - Teach introductions and conclusions. Complete KWOs and/or essay planning pages for both.L21 - Co-teachers and students: Read/review pages 206-209 of the IEW book together. Write conclusion of the hopes and dreams essay using the planning guide and/or KWO in book. NOTE: IEW teaches students to write to conclusion before the introduction. Store this in the writing tab pocket, along with the body paragraphs, until the introduction is also completed.L21 - Complete vocab activities in small groups.

L21 - Write introduction of the hopes and dreams essay using the planning guide and/or the KWO in the book. Compile a complete rough draft in this order: checklist on top, introduction, body paragraph 1, body paragraph 2, conclusion.
Reading
Amos Fortune
Twenty-One Balloons Treasury Tracker

Introduce Amos Fortune, Read "Africa 1725"
Read "The Middle Passage." Orally narrate and discuss.Read aloud.Read "Boston." Orally narrate and discuss.Read "Woburn." Orally narrate and discuss.
Latin
Twenty-One Balloons Party
Review for tomorrow's testUnit IV Test
HistoryRead Ch22 - Industrial Revolution. TL Cards and jingles: Industrial Revolution and Monroe DoctrineRead excerpts from Industrial Revolution book. Discuss working conditions, pros, and cons of industrialization.HISTORY JOURNAL: From the list below, choose an invention that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution. Do some brief research, and answer the questions and complete the activities listed below in your journal.
GeographyReview South America
SciencePhysical Science Test 2Read p119-124 (stop before "Blood Basics.") Skip Try This Activities. Take notes on p93-94 of your NJ. Answer questions #1-3 on p95.Discuss roles of blood in the body.Read p124-128.Take notes on p93-94 of your NJ. Answer questions #4-5 on p95 as you go.
Memory WorkPOETRY: Psalm 139:1-18 (NIV), Due for Recitation on 3/5
MATH FACTS: Multiplication Facts Test on 2/3
GEOGRAPHY: South America Test on 2/19
HISTORY: Preamble to the Constitution on 4/28
KEY DATES: 1-21 Test on 3/10
SCIENCE: Simple machines, types of levers/examples Test on 2/3

"Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands..." 
Psalm 90:17

IMPORTANT DATES/COMING SOON:
Tuesday, February 3 - 21 Balloons Party (Book Celebration)
Tuesday, February 3 - Multiplication Facts Test & Physical Science Test

MEMORY WORK:
Geography: We'll be memorizing the names and locations of the countries in South America for the next few weeks. A hard copy of this map can be found behind the "memory" tab in your child's binder. Additional maps, as well as MP3s of the corresponding song, are available at this link: Geography Resources.

History: Students will memorize 28 key dates. The key dates have accompanying jingles that do not have to be memorized, but will help students memorize the dates and retain details about the events to which they correspond. 

HISTORY JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT: Choose one of the following inventions or innovations and do some brief internet research to answer the questions that follow:

  • steam engine
  • cotton gin
  • interchangeable parts in manufacturing (muskets)
  • sewing machine
  • reaper
  • steel plow
  • Morse code
  • steam boat
  • Erie Canal

Questions:

1. Who invented it or whose idea was it?

2. What previous knowledge, ideas, or technology from others did the inventor/innovator use to design the model that eventually became successful?

3. When was it invented?

4. Where was it invented?

5. How did it work? What did it do? (2-3 sentences)

6. How did this invention or innovation (new way of doing something) change the world for the better? (2-3 sentences).

7. Were there any negative consequences from the invention?

8. Include a picture or drawing of the invention you chose or a picture to represent the innovation.


Key Dates:
1. Leif Ericsson Explores America - 1000
2. Columbus Sails to the Americas - 1492
3. Lost Colony of Roanoke - 1587
4. Founding of Jamestown - 1607
5. Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth - 1620
6. Salem Witch Trials - 1692
7. First Great Awakening - 1740s
8. French & Indian War - 1754-63
9. Boston Tea Party - 1773
10. Paul Revere's Ride - April 18, 1775
11. Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
12. The American Revolution - 1775-83
13. Constitution is Ratified - 1787-88
14. Industrial Revolution Begins - Late 1700s
15. Louisiana Purchase - 1803
16. Lewis & Clark Expedition - 1804
17. War of 1812 - 1812-1814
18. Monroe Doctrine - 1823
19. Underground Railroad - Early 1930s
20. Trail of Tears - 1830-1838
21. Fall of the Alamo - 1836

Poetry


Psalm 139:1-18

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.