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5TH Grade Newsletter for Week of: Nov. 10-14, 2014
“No one knows what he can do until he tries.”
- Publilius Syrus
Announcements
Nov. 10 – 5th grade text leveling begins
Nov. 10-14 – Real Men, Real Women Read Week
Nov. 11 – After School Clubs /Veterans Day
Nov. 12- Lunch Buddies
Nov. 21 – Covered Wagon Project and Paper Due
ELA Focus: Inference
Inference is a mental process by which we reach a
conclusion based on specific evidence. Inferences are
the stock and trade of detectives examining clues, of
doctors diagnosing diseases, and of car mechanics
repairing engine problems. Inference is essential to
being human. We engage in inference every day. We
interpret actions to be examples of behavior
characteristics, intents, or expressions of particular
feelings.
EXAMPLE: We infer it is raining when we see
someone with an open umbrella. We infer people are
thirsty if they ask for a glass of water.
WHAT I KNOW + WHAT I READ = INFERENCE
ELA WORD STUDY
Week 13
Sight words, homographs,
and academic vocabulary
1. direct- to aim, point, or send something or
somebody in a particular direction
2. October
3. squirm
4. scissors
5. desert
6. increase
7. convict-to declare someone guilty
8. finance- to raise or provide the money
required for something
9. wound
10. business
11. separate
12. approximate- not quite exact, but only
slightly more or less in number or quantity
13. estimate14. associate- to connect one thing with
another in the mind
15.certificate
16. navigation- the act or task of moving
through a place or along a route
17.convert- to change units of one measuring
or calculating system into units of another
18. emperor
19.circumnavigation- to sail or fly around
something such as the world or an island
20.cartographer- a person who makes maps
21.colony- a country or area that is ruled by
another country
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Math Focus: Multiplying Decimals
Science Focus: Explain how waves, currents, tides,
and storms affect the geologic
features of the ocean shore zone.
It is essential for students to know that the area where
the ocean meets the land is called the ocean shore
zone.
Beaches
* The shoreline, or coast, is the area where the land
meets the ocean.
Barrier islands
* Islands are pieces of land surrounded by water on
all sides. Islands with sandy beaches are called
barrier islands.
Estuaries
Social Studies Focus: Large-Scale Immigration
* All rivers flow into the oceans.
*Prior to the 1890’s most immigrants had come from
northern and western Europe, but in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries they came from increasingly from
eastern and southern Europe.
* The area where a river meets the ocean is known
as an estuary.
* The “old” immigrants were from Angle Saxon countries
such as England, Ireland, and Germany, where the “new”
immigrants were from Italy, the Slavic states of the Balkan
Peninsula, and Russia.
* Inlets are the water-filled spaces between the
barrier islands.
*Many of the new immigrants were Catholics or Jews,
whereas the old immigrants had been mostly Protestant.
* The repeated movement of water is known as a
wave.
*Opposition to labor unions was, in part, the result of the
fear of foreign radicals. Native-born workers feared that
new immigrants would take their jobs.
*In the 1920’s, immigration was restricted through a
quota systems that discriminated against immigrants who
arrived after 1890- the “new immigrants”.
*Immigrants have made many contributions to the growth
and development of the United States. The majority of
workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad were the
Irish and Chinese immigrants.
Inlets
Waves
Currents
* Flowing streams of water that move continually
through the ocean in a specific direction are called
currents.
Tides
* This regular rise and fall of waters in oceans and
seas is called a tide.
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