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5TH Grade Newsletter for Week of: Oct. 27 – Oct 31, 2014
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
Announcements
October 27-31 – Red Ribbon Week
Oct. 29 – Report Cards
Oct. 31 – Wildcat Pride Party
Nov. 2 – Set Clocks Back One Hour
ELA Focus: Summary of Non-Fiction Informational
Text
Sequence- Describes items or events in order or
tells the steps to follow to do something or make
something.
EXAMPLE: A book about the American revolution
might list the events leading to the war. In
another book, steps involved in harvesting blue
crabs might be told.
Chronological Sequence: Chronological articles reveal
events in a sequence from beginning to end. Words
that signal chronological structures include: first,
then, next, finally, and specific dates and times.
ELA WORD STUDY
Week 11
Sight words, altered sound, and academic vocabulary
1. suppose
2. August
3. coast- land beside the sea
4. menu
5. period
6. autumn
7. journey
8. flavor
9. substantial- of considerable (great)
importance, size, or worth
10.spatial- relating to, occupying, or happening
in space
11. essential- something that is absolutely
necessary
12. inferential- to reach a conclusion through
logical thinking
13. influential- able to have a powerful effect
on people and what they do, or on events
14. palatial- grand or luxurious
15. residential- used as a place to live for the
long term
16. artery- a blood vessel that carries blood
from the heart.
17. vein-a blood vessel that carries blood to the
heart
18.circulatory- of or relating to the circulation
of blood through the body
19.capillary
20.chamber-an enclosed space, compartment,
or cavity
21. ventricle
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Math Focus: Estimating Decimal Sums and
Differences
Science Focus: Geologic Landforms of the Ocean
Floor
Estimation of decimal numbers is a valuable skill since
we often deal with decimal numbers when buying and
selling things. Estimation allows us to check the
reasonableness our transactions in real life and in
math class when calculating problems. 
Continental shelf
Exact Calculation
Estimation
* The edges of the continents slope down from the shore
into the ocean. The part of the continent located under
the water is known as the continental shelf. The width of
the continental shelf varies around the edges of the
continents. In some places the continental shelf is fairly
shallow and in other place it becomes very deep, but it is
not the deepest part of the ocean.
Continental slope
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* The steep slope where the continental shelf drops to
the bottom of the ocean floor is called the continental
slope. The depth of the ocean water increases greatly here.
Social Studies Focus: Industrial Revolution
Mid-ocean ridge
*The Industrial Revolution brought change in the United
States economy that was once based on agriculture and
trade and then become an economy based on the
production of manufactured goods.
*The production factors used to create manufactures
goods were referred to as land, labor, money, and
technology.
*Technology refers to new ideas about how to do
something well as the equipment needed to do it.
*Transportation systems provided by the
transcontinental railroad shipped raw materials to cities
where manufacturers changed the raw material into
consumer products.
*Andrew Carnegie brought the Bessemer process, which
converted iron into steel, to the United States. Carnegie
Steel built huge foundries for the production of steel.
Carnegie’s steel foundries were one of several methods
of mass productions.
*Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876
and improved communication of the telegraph that was
invented to help the railroads communicate and stay on
schedule.
*The invention of the light bulb made the use of
* On the bottom of the ocean, there is a central ridge, or
mountain range, that divides the ocean floor into two
parts. These underwater volcanic mountains are known as
the mid-ocean ridge. Volcanic mountains not formed on
the mid-ocean ridge are called seamounts.
Rift zone
* In the center of the highest part of the mid-ocean
ridge is a narrow trench called a rift. Underwater volcanic
activity that adds mountains to either side of the mid-ocean
ridge occurs at the rift zone.
Trenches
* There are many steep-sided canyons and deep, narrow
valleys in the bottom of the ocean. Ocean trenches are the
deepest part of the ocean basin and deeper than any
valley found on land.
Ocean basin
* Located on either side of the mid-ocean ridge is the
ocean basin. It is made up of low hills and flat plains. The
flat area of the ocean basin is called the abyssal plain.
Seamounts are generally formed on the ocean basin.
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