5B News for the Week of 04/16/2012

Hello Parents:

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

Reading:  Our focus will be on non-fiction this week.  First, we will be tying up a couple of loose ends such as reading the story entitled, The World of William Joyce Scrapbook.  We will focus on word analysis and vocabulary strategies.  Midweek, we will be taking a comprehension test on this story which will be open book.  We will also review a couple of TFKs for our current event focus.

Flex:  Stars will be our focus this week for science.  We are creating a science journal in which the students are adding science vocabulary.  They are writing the definition of the words, drawing a small illustration to describe it, and writing a brief description.  The students have also started to take notes on the various science videos that we have been watching.  Up to this point, we have studied the solar system, the sun, star sizes and distances and colors of stars.  This week our focus will be on star birth and death, galaxies and constellations.  We will be watching a couple of awesome videos this week on The Milky Way.

Writing:  During writing this week, we will begin writing our six word memoirs.  First, we will look at some examples of six word memoirs so that we can get a better understanding of what they are.  Then, the students will write six word memoirs for characters from a shared reading experience.  For 5B, we will be writing our memoirs based on characters from a read aloud book that we read earlier this year entitled, Because of Mr. Terupt. 

Math Accel.:  PA math testing results were mailed home on Friday.  You should be receiving them in the next day or so.  This week in math, we will continue in Unit 8, which focuses on proportions.  Currently, we are on 8.5.  We are reading food labels and determining percentages from these labels based on our proportions. 

Social Studies:  We will be finishing up Chapter 10 late this week.  Most likely, there will be an open book test on Chapter 10 the week of the 23rd.  Then, we will move onto the Westward Movement.

Have a wonderful week!  If you have any questions or concerns, please email me.

Thank you!

Mrs. Bennick