5B News for the week of 1/16/2012

Hello Parents:

Just a reminder that there is no school this Monday, January 16th, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday. 

Robert Crown Health Museum permission forms will be coming home on Tuesday this week via backpack mail.  Please look for them.  We will be visiting Robert Crown on Friday, February 10th.

Also, Second Quarter report cards will be coming home this Friday, January 20th, via backpack mail. 

Here's what's going on this week in 5B:

Reading-We will continue with our Empathy/Bully lessons this week.  We will also continue to present our non-fiction book reports during reading and we will focus on the story, Summer of Fire, from our anthology.  We will be completing an extended response pertaining to this story.  The question will be, What are the effects of forest fires on the environment? 

Writing-We have a couple of things going on in writing this week.  First, we will be finishing up our Invention project.  We will be having an Invention Open House on Friday of this week.  The students will vote on their favorite invention across the four 5th grade classrooms. The one student with the most votes will win a Target gift card.  For those students who have completed their invention project already, they will begin working on their "All About Me From A-Z Book".  These books will be on display during Open House on January 31st. 

Flex- During flex. time, the students will continue to work on their fluency and comprehension skills.  They will be reading a variety of short stories and mini books to help them with these skills.  Soon, we will be working on developing some strategies to put in place for taking the ISAT. 

Math Accel-The students took the Unit 5 test this past Thursday.  We will be reviewing these tests on Tuesday and then continue on in Unit 6.   At  this time, we are on lesson 6.2.  We will have a short quiz on Friday which will cover lessons 6.1-6.4.

Science-We will finish off our Electricity unit with some hands-on experiments this week.  Then, our next topic will be Digestion.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.  Have a great week!
~Mrs. Bennick