Fifth Grade and Math and Science

Kim Zvara • 1-262-377-4659 x120 • kim.zvara@splgrafton.org

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Fifth Grade Weekly Update... May 12-16, 2025

5th Grade Families,

Happy Friday Everyone! Happy Mother’s Day to all the hard working moms out there!

Only THREE weeks to go in this school year. I want to send a HUGE thank you to everyone who helped make teacher appreciation week so special for all of the teachers this week. We will be heading to Riveredge on Monday right away to kick off the week. Please see my email with all of the details. MAP testing will take place this week.  The list of important dates is getting shorter. 

Please continue to monitor your child's progress & effort and encourage him/her to finish this year giving his/her best academic effort and by showing respect each and every day. Please note that we will be MAP testing on Tuesday for reading & Friday for math. Please be sure your child eats some filling breakfast each morning and gets a good night of sleep the night before.  I would also ask that you encourage your child to do his/her best on our final math MAP test to show what he/she has learned this year.  Data from MAP tests is very helpful to future teachers in supporting students, making curriculum changes, and also aids us in making decisions about your child's math placement (this is especially helpful as your child gets closer to 8th grade). 

Have a great weekend!

📅  IMPORTANT DATES: COMING SOON / PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR:

  • May 8: Spring Choir/Band Concert
  • May 12:  5th Grade Riveredge Field Trip   9:30am-1:00pm *BAG LUNCH*
  • May 13: Spring READING MAP Test
  • May 13: Puppy Chow/Rice Krispie Fundraiser for Hope for Haiti
  • May 16: Spring MATH MAP TEST
  • May 19: 5th Grade Field Trip
  • May 23: 1/2 Day  11:40 Dismissal
  • May 26:  NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day
  • May 29: Track & Field Day
  • May 30:   LAST DAY OF SCHOOL & Closing Chapel Service with 10:00 dismissal

INFORMATION/UPDATES:

🏃👟TRACK & FIELD DAY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: We will need help to run our events for the grades 3-8 track and field dayMay 29th. Please use the link below to sign up.  You will need to be at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School at 8:45 and we will start events at 9:00.  Events should wrap up around 11:30. There are a number of different spots where we need help. Please sign up HERE:  3-8 Track and Field Day   https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4DABA92EAAFBCE9-56720991-track     Thanks for helping out!

🌱MONDAY, MAY 12, 2025: RIVEREDGE FIELD TRIP: This spring, the 5th graders will be traveling to Riveredge Nature Preserve to help apply our classroom learning about Energy & Ecosystems to their everyday world. PLEASE BE SURE TO dress appropriately in layers for the weather. Please be sure to PACK A SNACK and a BAG LUNCH as we will not make it back for school lunch.  Thanks so much for getting your permission slips & money turned in this past week. 

🧢⚾MONDAY MAY 19, 2025: CLASS FIELD TRIP SAVE THE DATE! Each year, our middle school classes also do a fun/educational field trip in the spring. We will be visiting the Brewers, taking a tour of American Family Field. More information to come home soon.  We are still waiting on confirmation from the bus company.  Hopefully field trip permission slips will come home early in the week.

Puppy Chow & Rice Krispie Treat Sale! We have one more opportunity for our St. Paul community to help Building Hope in Haiti:  The Make a Difference Puppy Chow & Rice Krispie Treat sale will be held on Tuesday, May 13th.  Puppy Chow will be sold for $3 each bag, and the rice krispie treats will be sold for $2 each.  Our goal is ambitious, raising at least $600 to support Building Hope in Haiti’s ministries, but we really want to help.  With that in mind we would appreciate it if you would consider giving to help us meet the needs of others.

✝️Lutheran Junior Honor Association (LJHA) Information...This coming August, our fifth graders will have the opportunity to apply for membership into the Junior Lutheran National Honor Association (LJHA) if they are able to meet the criteria set forth. If you are interested in this honor, please see my detailed email from 3/13. I will discuss this opportunity briefly with the fifth graders this coming week and they will have an opportunity to ask questions.  Please know that many more details will be sent from the NJHA Coordinators - Mrs. Yurk, Mrs. Wulfkuhle, & Mr. Fischer in a couple of months. 

Quick Links

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Church & School Calendar
Google Classroom
Math Website & Daily Assignments
Science Website & Daily Assignments
Music & Choir

Writing

We will begin researching for our focused biographies this week. Source #1 research is due Monday, and source #2 research will be due Thursday. Then, we will organize our information and begin drafting. 

Health

Make an album, Google Slides, or a poster, of the life cycle stages
Use your family members (same person or different people is ok!)
Identify which stage the person is in the picture is in.  Due Friday, March 14th.
 
Infancy
Early Childhood 1-3
Middle Childhood 3-6
Late Childhood 6-12
Adolescence 13-18
Adulthood 

Math

MATH BLOCKS:     TUESDAY & THURSDAY  The rest of the week will begin a mini unit (part of Unit 14) on Order of Operations. The rest of the week we will learn some of the highlights from our last Unit 12: Measurement & Data.  We will work on how to convert between Metric & U.S. customary measurements and make & read line plots.  No major tests are planned.

Music

School-Wide Notes… Details on Ms Bremer's music page Classes singing in Worship… (keep watch for changes) 
  • Sun, Sept. 8 - Gr. K-8 - 11am Outdoor Worship - bring chairs & blankets to sit on!
  • Sun., Oct. 27, 9:30am Gr. 4-5 sing in Worship (Reformation)
Choir/JuBellate Notes… * Groups & Schedules  ** Extracurricular Handbook  
  1. JiVE (Gr. 5-8) - Rehearsals start Wed, Sept 11 & first sing for worship, Sun. Oct. 13, meet 7:40am
  2. JuBellate (Gr. 5-8) - Rehearsals start Mon, Sept 16 & first play for worship, Sat. Nov 2, meet 4:30pm
Eligibility checked every 2 weeks (Gr. 5-8) for students in extracurricular Music Groups  General Music Class… 
  • Gr. 5 - Ms Valerie Bremer, teacher
  • Bands - Mrs. Heide Young, teacher

PE

Please have your inside shoes, pe uniform shirt, and athletic shorts ready to go.  Also, be sure to review grading for Mr. Fischer's pe class which is available on my webpage links. 

Reading

This week, we will wrap up Part 2: The Quest of Gregor the Overlander. There will be nightly reading homework and stop-and-jots to complete.  If you’d like specific information on this novel, please check out commonsensemedia.org.

Religion

5th Religion This week in 5th Religion we will be talking about Ahab and Jezebel, Naboth’s Vineyard, and Elijah and Elisha. Memory Quiz #32- Due Friday May 16 1 Timothy 2:3-4 ~ This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Science

SCIENCE BLOCKS:  MONDAY, WEDNESDAY     We will begin our last science “unit” on Ecosystems and begin a deep dive into the BIOSPHERE. We will discuss the system of classifying both living things and animals and how living things use food to make energy.  We will then spend some time learning about the roles of different living things in an ecosystem and how they depend on one another to survive. NO major tests/projects are planned.

Social Studies

Unit 7 Test on Tuesday, May 6th!  Review sheet came home Friday of last week.

Vocab

 We will wrap up unit 14 this week.
  • Homework: None!! (No class on Monday or Tuesday due to field trip and MAP testing)
  • Test: Friday May 16th
  • Resources: Unit words can be found on Google Classroom and the sidebar of Mrs. Wulfkuhle’s webpage.

Quarter Class

Each week, we are asking that you sit down together (mom/dad and child) to have a family meeting. Check grades on Fast Direct, look at homework on the webpage, and talk about what you have going on for the week. Parent NEEDS to sign the assignment notebook.  That states that you had your meeting and I give your child 10 points. Thank you for taking this valuable time – 10 minutes can set the tone for the whole week!