Grade 5: Week of February 6th to 10th

Due to this week's practice EOG tests, some homework will be delayed by one day. Please expect the Nine Week's Practice EOG retests given back this Monday. The practice EOG Newton's Nine Week's test was already given back last week on Wednesday.

What great landform models! Thank you very much for supplying your child with clay. They have had a lot of fun and learned a great deal from creating a model of their region (ocean, desert, mountains, or plains). Students have already received a review sheet that they need to study for Tuesday's test. Students also need to study pictures of landforms in their Competitive Edge (pgs. 187-192), and their landforms chart of landforms in different regions (ocean, desert, mountains, and plains). Unfortunately, due to reduction in photocopies, I only photocopied one part of the review sheet. However, students should have the rest to study in the Competitive Edge, or in their chart in their notebook. The land form test is on Tuesday for 5A and 5C. 5B's test should be on Thursday.

Students will also present their landform model, and then weather, erode, and deposit sediment on their model. This is to prepare students for the river unit (also dealing with river landforms). Some questions we will ask in this mini unit are: Where does sand come from? Can water and wind break rocks? If so, how can water and wind break rocks? Where do rivers form? Where do they end? Students will have a chance to explore these questions and erosion as well.

This week's homework:

Monday: study for the landforms test (review sheet, pictures in the Competitive Edge pgs. 187-192, landform chart on oceans/mountains/deserts/plains)

Tuesday: Look up floodplain, watershed, fertile, runoff, delta, tributary, meander on google images. Print off one picture for each word by copying it and pasting it in a Word document.

Wednesday or Thursday night: review these images

* Homework is subject to change depending how much time we have due to the practice EOG tests.