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
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Asheville, North Carolina
