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5TH Grade Newsletter for Week of: Oct. 20 – Oct 24, 2014
“I tell students the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background.
Education is what allows you to stand out. ” - Ellen Ochoa
Announcements
October 21- After School Clubs
Oct. 24 – Teacher In-service; No school for students
October 27-31 – Red Ribbon Week
Oct. 29 – Report Cards
ELA Focus: Summary of Non-Fiction Informational
Text
Summarization is restating the main ideas of the text
in as few words as possible. It is finding the main idea
of a text and also finding the supporting details of the
main idea.
Remember MIDAS Touch!
M Main idea: Identify main idea
I Identify SUPPORTING DETAILS
D Disregard unimportant information
A Analyze redundant information
S Simplify, categorize, and label important
information
ELA WORD STUDY
Week 10
Sight words, altered sound,
and academic vocabulary
1. July
2. control
3. practice
4. naughty
5. straight
6. comet
7. statement
8. meteor
9. galaxy
10.ethnicity- belonging to a social group that
has a common national or cultural tradition.
11.commercial- for the purposes of trade
12. financial- relating to or involving money
13. racial
14. sacrificial- designed to be offered
15.circumstantial- evidence pointing
indirectly toward someone's guilt
16. process- a series of actions, following
procedures
17. rely- to be dependent on somebody or
something
18.cohesion- joining or working together to
form a united whole
19. gravity
20. respiratory- relating to breathing
21. interdependent- unable to exist or survive
without each other
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Science Focus: Constructive Forces
Math Focus: Subtracting Decimals
To subtract decimals simply line up the decimal points
and add as you normally would. 
Natural processes can be constructive
processes that create landforms (deposition,
landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods) or
destructive processes that destroy landforms
(weathering, erosion, landslides, volcanic
eruptions, earthquakes, floods). This week
we will focus primarily on the destructive
forces.
Natural processes that can affect Earth’s
oceans and land include:
Weathering is a general term used to
describe processes that break down rocks at or
near the surface of the earth due to wind,
water, ice, plant growth, etc…
Social Studies Focus: Continued focus on the effects
Westward Expansion had on the
Native Americans.

Native American tribe in Oregon [Nez Perce led by
Chief Joseph, 1877]fled to Canada rather than be
moved off of their traditional lands to Idaho in order
to make way for white settlers.

The Oregon tribe was surrounded by the United
States army. When they were promised to be
allowed to return to Oregon, they surrendered. This
promise was not kept and the tribe was taken to a
reservation in Oklahoma.

Plains Indians of the southwest also attempted to
resist [Apaches led by Geronimo] but their leader
was
eventually
captured
and
returned
to
a
reservation.

Resistance by other Native American tribes was also
broken.

Some Native Americans escaped the reservation and
attempted to restore their old way of life but they
were surrounded by the army at Wounded Knee,
South
Dakota
[1890].
United
States
soldiers
massacred approximately 300 men, women and
children as they attempted to give up their weapons.

Native American resistance to the reservation policy
was over. Life on the reservation was not easy.
Erosion is sediments or soil is moved by
wind, water, ice, or gravity.
Deposition is the dropping, or depositing, of
sediments by water, wind, or ice.
Landslides are mass movements of land due
to gravity.
Volcanoes are mountains with openings in
Earth’s crust through which magma, gases,
and ash reach Earth’s surface. Volcanic
eruptions also occur under the oceans; these
volcanoes that are built up are called
seamounts.
Earthquakes are vibrations on Earth’s
surface caused by sudden movement in Earth,
often along a
Floods occur when a large amount of water
covers land that is usually dry
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