Mr. Lignell 5th Grade 2023-2024

Reading- Start Unit 8: Summarize and Synthesis/Evaluate Author's Purpose Monday-Hockey is my Game Tuesday- Some Weather Wednesday- Cheap Land Thursday- Bacteria Friday- Constructed Written Responses Math-continue Unit 6   In this unit, students deepen their understanding of place value relationships of numbers in base ten, unit conversion, operations on fractions with unlike denominators, and multiplicative comparison. The work here builds on several important ideas from grade 4. In grade 4, students learned the value of each digit in a whole number is 10 times the value of the same digit in a place to its right. Here, they extend that insight to include decimals to the thousandths. Students recognize that the value of each digit in a place (including decimal places) is  1 10 1 10  the value of the same digit in the place to its left. This idea is highlighted as students perform measurement conversions in metric units. Previously, students learned to convert from a larger...

  MSTEP Schedule          Tuesday: Science           Wednesday: Social Studies Reading- finish Unit 7: Make Inferences/Draw Conclusions Monday-Introduce FluencySkills: Phrasing-High-Frequency Word Phrases  Tuesday- Connect Fluency and Comprehension: Analyze Author's Purpose Wednesday- Apply Fluency Skills to Reader's Theater Thursday- Build Tier Two Vocabulary: Adjectives That Describe Places Friday- Show Time: Perform Reader's Theater Science- Mystery Science: Continue Spaceship Earth Math   5.6 More Decimal and Fraction Operations Unit Goals Students solve multi-step problems involving measurement conversions, line plots, and fraction operations, including addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators. They also explain patterns when multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 and interpret multiplication as scaling by comparing products with factors. Section B Goals Add and subtract fractions with unl...