Friday, February 27, 2026

Week 25 - March 3 - March 9

  Link to Google Folder5th Grade Documents

Anything in blue should be turned in as homework on the next school day.

Anything in red is a special note to the co-teacher.

Anything in purple denotes a formal assessment.

Anything in magenta is optional (at the discretion of the co-teacher).  

5th Grade
Week 25
Tuesday
3/3/2026
Wednesday
3/4/2026
Thursday
3/5/2026
Friday
3/6/2026
Monday
3/9/2026
VirtuesOBEDIENCE: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments." John 14:15
PERSEVERANCE: "And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap a harvest, if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9
HOPE: "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" Jeremiah 29:11
BibleRead and discuss Psalm 119:1-32.Read Psalm 119:33-72. Answer questions in booklet.Read and discuss Psalm 119:73-104.Read Psalm 119:105-144. Answer questions in booklet.Virtue Reflection. Answer questions in booklet.
MathAddition Facts Test. Ch11, L3 (Classifying Triangles) - TG p102-105; TB p93-97; WB Ex3, p73-75.FP-D. Ch11, L4 (The Sum of Angles in a Triangles) - TG p106-108; TB p98-101; WB Ex4, p76-79. Be sure to have students do the THINK activity and that they truly understand that the three interior angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.FP-S. Ch11, L6 (Classifying Quadrilaterals) - TG p112-114; TB p106-110; WB Ex6, p85-87FP-A. Ch11, L7 (Angles of Quadrilaterals) - TG p115-117; TB p111-115. Be sure to have students do the THINK activity. WB Ex7, p89-92, #1-8Week 25 Quick Skills Review. Parents: Check using key in documents folder. Students make all corrections. Ch11, L8 - TG p118-120; TB p116-119. WB p93-94.
SpellingSTEP 23: Review card box. Dictate sentences 5-8.STEP 23: TestSTEP 24: New teaching. Dictate words.STEP 24: Dictate sentences 1-4.
GrammarCh25, L1 - Mixed patternsCh24, L1 - Jingle Time and Grammar Time. Ch24, L2&3 - Grammar Time.Ch25, L1 - Thank-you notes

Writers' Conferences
Ch24, L4 - Jingle Time and Test Time for practice only (skip Ex2, 3, 7, 9, and 10)
Writing/
Vocabulary
VOCAB WORDS: diminish, awestruck, solemn, encounter
Complete L15 vocabulary activities.


Begin
Tuck essay planning guide.

If not finished yesterday, complete
Tuck Essay Planning Guide
RESEARCH PAPER: Introduce Research Paper. Send home orange folder.
Write final draft of Freedom of Religion essay.
RESEARCH PAPER: Review materials in the orange folder. Complete "Who I Want to Research" form, and return in orange folder on Monday. NOTE: This folder should come back and forth to school each day during the research paper project.
Reading
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Read By the Great Horn Spoon! aloudRead Ch11-14. Orally narrate and discuss.Recitation of Psalm 139Read Ch15-17. Orally narrate and discuss.Read Ch18-20. Orally narrate and discuss.
LatinCh21 Quiz.

Ch22 - Teach grammar lesson.
Ch22 - Listen to CD/audio twice and recite memory page. Review the grammar lesson and complete the chapter story, worksheet, and derivatives pages.Ch22 - Practice exercisesCh22 - Listen to CD/audio twice and recite memory page. Study the vocab words and maxim and complete the Quiz section to prepare for next week's quiz.
HistoryCh27 - The Great Journey West, Part 2. TL Card and jingle: Gold Rush

Pack history journal. I will collect/keep them to grade tomorrow.

Introduce Texas History Unit

Collect journals to grade.
Read Story of Texas, Part 1 - p9-22. Stop before the large Capital "T." Answer questions #1-4 (at the back of the packet) in the Texas History Packet. This should come back and forth to school each day.
GeographyStates and CapitalsHISTORY JOURNAL: Week 25 map - 3 routes to California Gold.Review U.S. states and capitals
ScienceThe somatic and autonomic nervous systems.

Trick your SNS (p156)

The endocrine system
Read p161-167. Skip "Try This" activities. Stop before "The Spinal Cord." Take notes on p132 of the NJ. Answer questions #1-10 on p131.Parts of the brain. Complete sketch on p134.Read p168-171. Skip "Try This" activities. Take notes on p132 of the NJ. Answer questions #11-12 on p131.
Memory WorkMATH FACTS: Addition Facts Test on 3/3
POETRY: Psalm 139:1-18 recitation on 3/5
GEOGRAPHY: U.S. States and Capitals test on 4/16
KEY DATES #1-21: Test on 3/10**
SCIENCE: Parts of the brain and what they do; neuron anatomy - Test on 3/12

"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, March 3 - Addition Math Facts Test
Thursday, March 5 - Psalm 139 Recitation
Tuesday, March 10 - Key Dates Test #1-21/Uniform-Free Fundraiser
Thursday, March 12 - Spirit Day/Field Trip to Cedar Park Library
Friday, March 13 - 3rd Quarter Ends
Monday March 16 - 20 - SPRING BREAK
Thursday, March 26- Spirit/Pizza/D.O.G.S

MEMORY WORK:
Geography:
Students will memorize the 50 States and Capitals and where they are located on a map of the United States.  To help with this, we are learning a fun and crazy song to remember them all! I promised the class I would share it with you here: 
Here is a practice answer sheet for the blank USA map in the documents folder in case you want to start studying the location of the states as well. I'll send home a numbered map to practice with on Tuesday, as that might make it easier for you.

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. 
** Please note the upcoming Key Dates test is on the dates 1-21. The blogs have been incorrect. Please have your students add the last three dates to their memorization practice if they haven't already been doing so.


Key Dates:
1. Leif Ericsson Explores America - 1000
2. Columbus Sails to the Americas - 1492
3. Lost Colony of Roanoke - 1587
4. Jamestown Settled - 1607
5. Pilgrims land 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 1830s
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.