Fifth Grade

March 2025

Important Dates and Reminders

  • March 6, 2025: 1:00 PM- 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM – 8:00PM Virtual Parent-Teacher Conferences (Half Day for students)​
  • March 10, 2025: Graduation Picture Make-up Day​
  • March 14, 2025: Report Card Distribution Day​
  • March 19, 2025: 5th Grade Trip to QCC; In-person coffee and conversation ​
  • March 31, 2025: Eid al Fitr (School closed)​

Reading and Writing

  • Reading Module 7: Above, Below, and Beyond- Students will be reading selections on the topic of exploration. They will be thinking about “What role does curiosity play in exploration?”
  • Writing Module 7: Research Report- Students will write a research report about a discovery that was made in the past that affects their life today.

Math

  • Topic 10- Understand Volume Students will have a deep understanding of the measurable attribute of volume and using numbers and operations to describe and compute the volume of rectangular prisms and composite shapes.​
  • Topic 11 -Convert Measurements Students develop their understanding of customary and metric units of length, capacity, weight, and mass. They will learn to convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system.​

Science

Modeling Matter: (Why can salad-dressing ingredients separate again after being mixed?)​

Social Studies

European Exploration: How do issues of power, wealth, and morality influence exploration and colonization?

Fifth Grade Teachers

  • Mr. Asselta
  • Ms. Russo
  • Mrs. Cantalupo
  • Mrs. Every
  • Mr. Petromanolakis