Link to Google Folder: 5th 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 26 | TUESDAY
3/10/2026 | WEDNESDAY
3/11//2026 | THURSDAY
3/12/2026 | FRIDAY
3/13/2026
END OF 3RD QTR | MONDAY
3/14/2026 |
| Virtues | OBEDIENCE: "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 |
| Bible | Read and discuss Psalm 119:145-147. | Read and discuss Psalms 120-124. Answer questions in booklet. | Read and discuss Psalms 125-128. | Read and discuss Psalms 129-134. Answer questions in booklet. | Spring Break |
| Math | FP-D. Ch11, L10 (Practice) TB p124-127 | FP-S. Ch11, L10 (Practice) - WB Ex10, p99-101, (#1 & #3a only). All other problems are optional. | FP-D. Begin the Geometry Review Packet | Complete Geometry Review Packet if not completed already.
Parents: Please check using key in documents folder, and have student make ALL corrections, or full credit will not be given.
Geometry Take-home Quiz. Due Tuesday when we return.
Students must complete this without parental help, but it is considered an open-note quiz. They may use the resources in their binders, as well as the geometry review packet they completed yesterday, to help them. | Spring Break |
| Spelling | | STEP 24: Review card box. Dictate sentences 5-8. | STEP 24: Test | STEP 25. Dictate all 25 words | Spring Break |
| Grammar | Ch26, L2 - Teach parts of a book and parts of a library. NOTE: Skip classifying sentences. | Ch25, L2 & 3 - Jingle Time and Grammar Time Only
Parents: Be sure to check these carefully, because the students are now doing mixed-practice sentences and may struggle to classify them correctly. | Library Field Trip | Ch25, L4 - Ch25, L4 - Jingle Time and Test Time for practice only (skip Ex 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, and 11) | Spring Break |
Writing/
Vocabulary | RESEARCH PAPER: Assign research projects.
Distribute and review checklist.
Begin
Tuck Essay
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Continue working on Tuck Essay
using checklist and essay planning guide. | Library field trip | RESEARCH PAPER: Begin acquiring source texts. See notes sent home about the requirement for books vs. online sources. You must have them all by the Tuesday after Spring Break.
Complete Tuck Essay using checklist and essay planning guide. Due the Tuesday after Spring Break | Spring Break |
Reading | Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| Read aloud | Read Ch21-24. Orally narrate and discuss. | Library field trip | Read Ch25-end. Orally narrate and discuss. | Spring Break |
| Latin | Ch22 Quiz.
Ch23 - Complete memory page. | Ch23 - Translate the sentences at the bottom of page 172. (Translation Exercise). Pay close attention to the endings to determine tense!
Make sure books are packed! I'll be checking to see that this quarter's homework was completed. | Ch23 - Complete the Grammar Review on p173 and 174. No quiz or test on the Tuesday after the break. | Spring Break |
| History | Key Dates #1-21 Test | Read Story of Texas, Part 1 - p22-54. Answer questions #5-19 in the Texas Timeline packet. | Read Ch25 of the history textbook - The Battle of the Alamo. TL Card and Jingle: The Battle of the Alamo | Spring Break |
| Geography | | Listen to the songs linked in the blog notes to help you learn all the states and capitals. | Listen to the songs linked in the blog notes to help you learn all the states and capitals. | Spring Break |
| Science | Parts of the Brain. The Reflex arc.
Distribute and review study guide. | Use notes and study guide to prepare for tomorrow's test.
Please have students pack Notebooking Journals, as I will be collecting them Thursday. | L9&10 ScienceTest
The Brain
Collect journals to grade. | Read p175-181 . Skip Try This activities. Stop before "Now Hear This." Take notes on p141 of the NJ. Answer questions 1-4 on p142. | Spring Break |
| Memory Work | MATH FACTS: Division Facts Test on 4/7
POETRY: "A Day of Sunshine" recitation on 4/30
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
HISTORY: Excerpts from Patrick Henry's Speech Recitation on 4/28
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"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 10 - Key Dates Test #1-21
Tuesday, March 10 - Uniform FREE Fundraiser/FREE Dress Day
Thursday, March 12 - Spirit Day/Library Field Trip/Science Test
Students must wear uniform or spirit wear for the Field Trip:)
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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl4r51cjLeMAlso, 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 sent a numbered map home on Tuesday that might make it easier to study.
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: (For recitation)
A Day of Sunshine
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O gift of God! O perfect day:
Whereon shall no man work, but play;
Whereon it is enough for me,
Not to be doing, but to be!
Through every fiber of my brain,
Through every nerve, through every vein,
I feel the electric thrill, the touch
Of life, that seems almost too much.
I hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.
And over me unrolls on high
The splendid scenery of the sky,
Where through a sapphire sea the sun
Sails like a golden galleon,
Towards yonder cloud-land in the West,
Towards yonder Islands of the Blest,
Whose steep sierra far uplifts
Its craggy summits white with drifts.
Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms
The snow-flakes of the cherry-blooms!
Blow, winds! and bend within my reach
The fiery blossoms of the peach!
O Life and Love! O happy throng
Of thoughts, whose only speech is song!
O heart of man! canst thou not be
Blithe as the air is, and as free?
