Hello Parents,
Important notes: Report cards went home yesterday. Please keep everything that was inside of the envelope. Then, sign the envelope and return it to school. Thank you.
If you enjoy going to Great America, there is a new way to earn the free Great America ticket this year. Your child needs to read at least 360 minutes and then post their minutes on the Reading Stars site. This needs to be done by January 31st. Most students are well on their way to earning a free Great America ticket!
Please return the Robert Crown field trip permission form with the required fee. Also, 6th grade class selection sheets should be completed and returned no later than January 31st.
Here's a snapshot of what's going on this week in 5B:
Reading- We will continue with our bully lessons this week. Our conversations about this topic have been excellent. It seems that everyone has something to share about this topic. Also, most students have expressed that they feel May Watts is a great place to be and most students practice respectful and appropriate behavior most of the time. Also, we will continue working on our Summer of Fire story from our anthology. We will review a well-written extended response answer and write our own extended response. We will also read another story related to this topic entitled, Ring of Fire.
Writing- We finished our Invention projects this week and got to travel to different classrooms to view their inventions. The students then voted on their favorite and the winner was announced yesterday. Everyone created a great invention. Most of them were very well thought-out and creative! This week, we will work on our All About Me from A-Z books. These books will be on display for Open House on January 31st.
Math Accel.- We had our first Unit 6 quiz last week on lessons 6.1-6.3. Most students were very successful on this quiz. We will continue working our way through Unit 6 over the next week or two. Another quiz will be coming up soon and possibly an exit slip or two.
Science- We will review electricity on Monday and our Electricity test will be on Tuesday. It will be one open-ended response question. We discussed the question briefly on Friday which included key words to use when answering the question. We will continue this discussion on Monday so that the students are well-prepared for Tuesday's test. On Wednesday, we will begin our unit on Digestion. We will remain in science for the next few weeks and then we will be switching back over to social studies.
Also, we will attempt to squeeze in some grammar this week! Our focus will be on pronouns and prepositions.
Have a wonderful week everyone! Always feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you might have.
~Mrs. Bennick
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Asheville, North Carolina
