5B News for the Week of 04/02/2012

Welcome back!  I hope that everyone had an enjoyable Spring Break.  Here's what's going on this week in 5B:

Reading:  To start the week, we will be attending a bike assembly.  On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will continue to analyze poetry and begin to write our own poetry.  Later in the week, we will be listening to various songs and analyzing them.  This will continue into next week as well.

Flex:  During flex. we will continue to discuss communities and neighborhoods.  This topic was briefly introduced to the students the day before Spring Break.  The students will be designing a folder that will include components of a community and will share them with others in the group late in the week.  This was a popular project that 5B just completed and I thought my flex. students would also enjoy it.  However, it is a different topic.

Writing:  We will continue writing poetry during our writing time.  The students will read their poems aloud and then decide which of their poems is the best to display on the bulletin board in the hallway. We will also be writing six word memoirs...always a fun activity.

Math Accel:  We will continue in Unit 8 which will cover rates and proportions.  We will also be participating in a fun activity which came from a book we just recently read in class entitled, Because of Mr. Terupt.  The activity will include going outside (weather permitting) to estimate how many blades of grass are in May Watts' field.  The students will be working in groups.  The students will need to figure out a way to find the area of the field and approximately how many blades of grass are in it.

Social Studies:  We will continue our discussion of African Americans and the Revolution, patriots of war and the Constitution.  

Have a great week, everyone!

Mrs. Bennick