3rd Nine Weeks

This nine weeks, the 5th grade will be focusing on Life Science. Your child should know the following vocabulary words, and be able to explain them:

• Ecosystem • Thrive • Ill • Perish • Modify • Adapt • Characteristics
•Species •Survive •Reproduce • Niche • Traits • Inherited • Learned • Photosynthesis
• Carbon cycle • Nitrogen cycle • Water cycle

We will be working on the following:
Science- Focus 3.1/Growth and Life Cycles -Focus 3.2/Food Chains and Webs
Focus 3.3 /Inherited Traits, Adaptations and Learned Behavior
Focus 3.4 /Habitat

Social Studies-Focus 3.1/ The Constitution and Bill of Rights
Focus 3.2 /The U.S. Grows
Focus 3.3 /Civil War and Reconstruction