Hello Parents & Students:
Just a reminder to please return the Parent-Teacher Conference half sheet, if you haven't already done so. I need to know if the time works for you or we can make other arrangements.
Halloween is Wednesday. The parade will begin at 2:00 and the parties will follow. Also on Wednesday, the fifth graders will be having a pretend campfire with marshmallows and spooky stories to read. A treat permission form went home on Friday. Please return it, by Wednesday, if you plan to have your child eat the marshmallows...or not.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We will be on Unit 8 this week. The words have been posted. The pretest will be on Monday and the test will be on Friday, as usual.
Language Arts: Mainly, we will be doing research on our new project....how to make the World a better place. This will take the majority of our language arts time this week. However, we will be doing some grammar which will focus on comma usage and placement and also a couple of TFK articles which will focus on U.S. voting requirements and comparing the Presidential candidates. In writing, we will continue to work on our persuasive writing skills. We had a great debate last week on whether or not children ages 8-12 should have cell phones. The arguments were quite impressive. Then, we all enjoyed the debate between Mr. Vaid and Mr. LeCrone on year-round school and whether or not it's beneficial.
Math Accel: We are currently working on large numbers (trillions, billions, millions, etc.) and small numbers which includes working with decimal points. We will also begin multiplying with powers, exponents, and multiplication of decimals this week.
Social Studies: We completed our colony projects last week and they were terrific! All of the groups presented and they were all very unique and informative. All groups worked very hard to include all of the requirements. It was a great job by all! This week in SS, we will continue to discuss the first colonies and move onto the thirteen colonies.
Looking forward to another great week! Please contact me with any questions or concerns.
Mrs. Bennick :-)
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
5B News for the Week of October 22nd
Hello Parents and Students,
Time is flying by! The end of the first quarter is this Friday, October 26th. Report cards go home on Friday, November 2nd.
Also, remember that this Wednesday, October 24th, is Family Reading Night at May Watts from 6:30-8:00pm. Stop by for a fun night of reading!
On Friday, we will be meeting up with our Kindergarten buddies, for the second time this year, for a fun Halloween project!!
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We will begin Unit 7 this week in spelling. The base word pattern is -ed and -ing endings.
Language Arts: We just recently finished our first read aloud book, Because of Mr. Terupt. This was an awesome book and many of the students could relate to the characters in it. The sequel to this book, which was just recently released, is entitled, Mr. Terupt Falls Again, and we will not be reading it as a read aloud in class because it gets into more teen-like topics. However, many of the students have expressed interest in reading it on their own. Our next class read aloud book will be, Night of the Twisters. Our next project will be discussing how we can change the World to make it a better place. This project was introduced to the students, in great detail, earlier this week. On Monday, the students will be split into groups where they will discuss which idea they will choose and how it will positively affect the World.
We will also continue with Time For Kids this week. We will be having a debate as to whether or not children need cell phones. Of course, during this time we will also do some silent reading, reading conferencing and newspaper work.
Math Accel: The students took the Unit 2 pretest last Thursday and on Friday we started the first lesson in Unit 2, which was reading and writing large numbers. We discussed place value, trillions, billions, millions, etc. and we will continue to work on this Monday. Mrs. Tobin will be visiting our class on Monday and she will introduce problem solving to us. We will then move on to reading and writing small numbers and adding and subtracting decimals.
Social Studies: Our colony projects are coming along very well. Many groups are bringing in clay, posterboards, etc. to showcase their projects. All colony projects should be completed by the end of the day Tuesday and presentations will be on Wednesday and Thursday. We are also working in our social studies textbooks and our focus is on Jamestown.
That's it for now. Enjoy this beautiful day!
Delissa Bennick
Time is flying by! The end of the first quarter is this Friday, October 26th. Report cards go home on Friday, November 2nd.
Also, remember that this Wednesday, October 24th, is Family Reading Night at May Watts from 6:30-8:00pm. Stop by for a fun night of reading!
On Friday, we will be meeting up with our Kindergarten buddies, for the second time this year, for a fun Halloween project!!
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We will begin Unit 7 this week in spelling. The base word pattern is -ed and -ing endings.
Language Arts: We just recently finished our first read aloud book, Because of Mr. Terupt. This was an awesome book and many of the students could relate to the characters in it. The sequel to this book, which was just recently released, is entitled, Mr. Terupt Falls Again, and we will not be reading it as a read aloud in class because it gets into more teen-like topics. However, many of the students have expressed interest in reading it on their own. Our next class read aloud book will be, Night of the Twisters. Our next project will be discussing how we can change the World to make it a better place. This project was introduced to the students, in great detail, earlier this week. On Monday, the students will be split into groups where they will discuss which idea they will choose and how it will positively affect the World.
We will also continue with Time For Kids this week. We will be having a debate as to whether or not children need cell phones. Of course, during this time we will also do some silent reading, reading conferencing and newspaper work.
Math Accel: The students took the Unit 2 pretest last Thursday and on Friday we started the first lesson in Unit 2, which was reading and writing large numbers. We discussed place value, trillions, billions, millions, etc. and we will continue to work on this Monday. Mrs. Tobin will be visiting our class on Monday and she will introduce problem solving to us. We will then move on to reading and writing small numbers and adding and subtracting decimals.
Social Studies: Our colony projects are coming along very well. Many groups are bringing in clay, posterboards, etc. to showcase their projects. All colony projects should be completed by the end of the day Tuesday and presentations will be on Wednesday and Thursday. We are also working in our social studies textbooks and our focus is on Jamestown.
That's it for now. Enjoy this beautiful day!
Delissa Bennick
Saturday, October 13, 2012
5B News for the Week of 10/15
Hello Students & Parents!
We enjoyed a fun time yesterday with our electronic devices and musical instruments. It was nice to have a little bit of time to relax and unwind after a busy week. A huge thanks to the parents for supporting this reward day and allowing your child to enjoy their electronic devices/instruments at school. We are all looking forward to earning our next reward day!
Just a reminder that there is a half day of school this Wednesday, October 17th. Students will be dismissed at 12:15. Students will not eat lunch at school on this day.
Also, earlier this week, the students completed the first edition of the 5B Bennick Biz Newspaper! They did an incredible job! The newspaper includes information on current events, sports, surveys, fun pages, information on the "Animal of the Week" and other interesting topics. We also have excellent cover artists! The students work on the class newspaper, on their own time, after all classwork has been completed. Many of the students in 5B volunteered to be part of the newspaper and they are learning excellent time management skills because of it. The students plan to publish the Bennick Biz twice monthly.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We will be on Unit 6 in spelling this week. The words have been posted. Despite the kids having one less day to study last week, most seemed to do very well. I am proud of them!
Language Arts: We will be taking our TFK quiz this Monday on our current TFK issue. We finished reading it on Friday, but ran short of time to fit the quiz in. Then, we will begin the next TFK issue. We will be reading a story in our anthology this week entitled, Woodsong. We will preview the vocabulary early in the week and then listen to the story on CD. We will take a test on this story later in the week. We will also begin doing research on two upcoming research projects, one social studies and the other a reading project. The reading project will involve working in cooperative groups and the topic will be how we can make the World a better place. Researching both of these projects will involve a lot of time and will be done during both language arts and social studies times. The research project will be introduced to the students midweek.
Math Accel: We just completed the Unit 1 test on Friday and the results were encouraging. All students worked diligently to finish their study guides and did quite well on the first test. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, we will be studying area and perimeter and then we will begin Unit 2 which mainly focuses on computation skills.
Social Studies: As I mentioned earlier in the language arts section, the students will soon be involved in a couple of different research projects. The social studies project will have the students developing a colony. Research will include geography, location, cost of goods that will be imported/exported, natural resources, native people in the area, climate and form of government. Each group will do research on these topics. The groups will then present their colony to the class and present a persuasive argument with facts and reliable sources as to why their colony would survive the longest. (This ties into why the colony of Roanoke did not survive, which we discussed earlier this week.) However, before we begin this colony project, we will still need to build some background knowledge about colonies and will be discussing Jamestown and other colonies as well.
Have a wonderful weekend!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Delissa Bennick
We enjoyed a fun time yesterday with our electronic devices and musical instruments. It was nice to have a little bit of time to relax and unwind after a busy week. A huge thanks to the parents for supporting this reward day and allowing your child to enjoy their electronic devices/instruments at school. We are all looking forward to earning our next reward day!
Just a reminder that there is a half day of school this Wednesday, October 17th. Students will be dismissed at 12:15. Students will not eat lunch at school on this day.
Also, earlier this week, the students completed the first edition of the 5B Bennick Biz Newspaper! They did an incredible job! The newspaper includes information on current events, sports, surveys, fun pages, information on the "Animal of the Week" and other interesting topics. We also have excellent cover artists! The students work on the class newspaper, on their own time, after all classwork has been completed. Many of the students in 5B volunteered to be part of the newspaper and they are learning excellent time management skills because of it. The students plan to publish the Bennick Biz twice monthly.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We will be on Unit 6 in spelling this week. The words have been posted. Despite the kids having one less day to study last week, most seemed to do very well. I am proud of them!
Language Arts: We will be taking our TFK quiz this Monday on our current TFK issue. We finished reading it on Friday, but ran short of time to fit the quiz in. Then, we will begin the next TFK issue. We will be reading a story in our anthology this week entitled, Woodsong. We will preview the vocabulary early in the week and then listen to the story on CD. We will take a test on this story later in the week. We will also begin doing research on two upcoming research projects, one social studies and the other a reading project. The reading project will involve working in cooperative groups and the topic will be how we can make the World a better place. Researching both of these projects will involve a lot of time and will be done during both language arts and social studies times. The research project will be introduced to the students midweek.
Math Accel: We just completed the Unit 1 test on Friday and the results were encouraging. All students worked diligently to finish their study guides and did quite well on the first test. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, we will be studying area and perimeter and then we will begin Unit 2 which mainly focuses on computation skills.
Social Studies: As I mentioned earlier in the language arts section, the students will soon be involved in a couple of different research projects. The social studies project will have the students developing a colony. Research will include geography, location, cost of goods that will be imported/exported, natural resources, native people in the area, climate and form of government. Each group will do research on these topics. The groups will then present their colony to the class and present a persuasive argument with facts and reliable sources as to why their colony would survive the longest. (This ties into why the colony of Roanoke did not survive, which we discussed earlier this week.) However, before we begin this colony project, we will still need to build some background knowledge about colonies and will be discussing Jamestown and other colonies as well.
Have a wonderful weekend!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Delissa Bennick
Saturday, October 6, 2012
5B News for the Week of October 8th
Hello Parents & Students:
There's a lot going on in school this week. First, there is no school this Monday, October 8th, due to the Columbus Day holiday.
Interim Assessments will take place this week Tuesday through Friday in class. A form was sent home earlier in the week that described these assessments which will be used to guide the ongoing evolution of our curricula of the recently adopted Common Core State Standards.
On a happier note, the students of 5B recently earned their first reward of the year by filling the class marble jar!!! On Friday, October 12th, the students may bring in an electronic device (with a signed permission form that was sent home), their musical instrument to play for us, and some gum. The students will have time during the day on Friday to use/play with these items.
Also, the author, Annie Barrows, will be visiting May Watts on Thursday, October 11th. She is the author of the Ivy + Bean book series. If you would like to purchase an autographed copy of one of her books, please click on the following link for more information.
http://watts.ipsd.org/News.aspx?id=45683
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We will be on Unit 5 this week. The spelling pretest will be on Tuesday since there is no school on Monday. If you feel your child may have difficulty learning the words having one day less to study, they may stay on the base list this week if it works best for them. Also, I encouraged the students to visit my blog over the weekend and look at the spelling words so that they could get a jump start on learning them.
The test will be on Friday.
Language Arts- We recently finished up our book hooks, which turned out very nice and also our Writer's Workshop projects. I was so impressed with the level of preparation that all of the students put forth for the Writer's Workshop Project. They were all very well done and it was a pleasure to listen to all of them. This is a very creative group of kids! This week in reading some of the skills that we will be focusing on will be locating information in text, finding facts to support your thinking and fact vs. opinion. We will be using TFKs and, most likely, a story from our anthology to concentrate on these skills. I will continue my next round of reading conferences with the students and we will continue to write in our Reading Response Journals for writing practice. We also covered some grammar this week in class which included prepositions and simple subjects.
Math Accel.- Unit 1 study guides were sent home on Friday. The Unit 1 test will be this Thursday. The students are to begin working on their study guides and we will review them in class Tuesday & Wednesday to clarify any questions that they may have.
Social Studies- We finished our discussion of Christopher Columbus late this week and took a short quiz about his life and expeditions on Friday. Next in social studies, we will begin discussing Jamestown and the colonies. Once we cover this material, we will begin our colony project the following week. Social studies is starting to become alive! The colony project should be a lot of fun for the kids.
That's it for now. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Enjoy the long weekend!
Mrs. Bennick
There's a lot going on in school this week. First, there is no school this Monday, October 8th, due to the Columbus Day holiday.
Interim Assessments will take place this week Tuesday through Friday in class. A form was sent home earlier in the week that described these assessments which will be used to guide the ongoing evolution of our curricula of the recently adopted Common Core State Standards.
On a happier note, the students of 5B recently earned their first reward of the year by filling the class marble jar!!! On Friday, October 12th, the students may bring in an electronic device (with a signed permission form that was sent home), their musical instrument to play for us, and some gum. The students will have time during the day on Friday to use/play with these items.
Also, the author, Annie Barrows, will be visiting May Watts on Thursday, October 11th. She is the author of the Ivy + Bean book series. If you would like to purchase an autographed copy of one of her books, please click on the following link for more information.
http://watts.ipsd.org/News.aspx?id=45683
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We will be on Unit 5 this week. The spelling pretest will be on Tuesday since there is no school on Monday. If you feel your child may have difficulty learning the words having one day less to study, they may stay on the base list this week if it works best for them. Also, I encouraged the students to visit my blog over the weekend and look at the spelling words so that they could get a jump start on learning them.
The test will be on Friday.
Language Arts- We recently finished up our book hooks, which turned out very nice and also our Writer's Workshop projects. I was so impressed with the level of preparation that all of the students put forth for the Writer's Workshop Project. They were all very well done and it was a pleasure to listen to all of them. This is a very creative group of kids! This week in reading some of the skills that we will be focusing on will be locating information in text, finding facts to support your thinking and fact vs. opinion. We will be using TFKs and, most likely, a story from our anthology to concentrate on these skills. I will continue my next round of reading conferences with the students and we will continue to write in our Reading Response Journals for writing practice. We also covered some grammar this week in class which included prepositions and simple subjects.
Math Accel.- Unit 1 study guides were sent home on Friday. The Unit 1 test will be this Thursday. The students are to begin working on their study guides and we will review them in class Tuesday & Wednesday to clarify any questions that they may have.
Social Studies- We finished our discussion of Christopher Columbus late this week and took a short quiz about his life and expeditions on Friday. Next in social studies, we will begin discussing Jamestown and the colonies. Once we cover this material, we will begin our colony project the following week. Social studies is starting to become alive! The colony project should be a lot of fun for the kids.
That's it for now. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Enjoy the long weekend!
Mrs. Bennick
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