Hello Parents & Students:
I hope that you all had the opportunity to rest, relax and visit with friends and relatives over Thanksgiving Break. Welcome back!
The students in 5B will be participating in Gates testing this week on Thursday.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We are on Unit 11 this week. This week's words are very difficult. There are a lot of silent letters. We will be reviewing the word meanings in the classroom as there are some words that the students may not be familiar with.
Language Arts: We will be finishing up our "Lemonade" poem books by Tuesday. They are looking good! Some students took them home over the long weekend to work on them. We will be reading a story from our anthology entitled, Sees Behind Trees. Our test for this story will be on Thursday or Friday and it will be open book. We will read and discuss the story in class, however, I always encourage the students to reread the story at home for extra practice and understanding. As always, we will be reading our TFKs for current events. This week's focus is on the environment. The students have been doing a nice job of keeping track of the books they've read for their 40 book requirement. Their genre graphs and reading logs are current, for the most part. We will also try to fit in some grammar this week as well.
Math Accel.: The Unit 2 study guide will be coming home on Monday. The Unit 2 test will either be on Friday or Monday depending on how things go this week. We will begin Unit 3 which focuses on Geometry.
Social Studies:We will continue our work in Chapter 6, Life in the English Colonies. We will also be starting a project either late this week or early next week in which the students will choose someone in history to portray. They will research this person and discuss what times were like when this person was alive. For example, what clothes were worn, foods eaten, work, setting, language, common words used at that time, and any other pertinent information the students can find out about the person that they choose. We will discuss this project in more detail in class.
That's it for now. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Delissa Bennick
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Asheville, North Carolina
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
5B News for the Week of 11/19
Hello Parents & Students:
The upcoming week will be a short one for us. We HAVE school on Monday and Tuesday this week. Thanksgiving Break begins Wednesday, 11/21. There is NO SCHOOL on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday this week. I hope that you all have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving. Gobble, Gobble!
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Saxena who came into our classroom this past Thursday to do a powerpoint presentation on the Indian culture and how it is similar and different to the American culture. We learned so much from you. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to educate us.
Just a reminder that there is a PTA Tea Chat/Meeting this Monday evening that begins at 5:00. I will be there!
Also, during the school day on Monday, there will be a PTA assembly for the students. Fun times!
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Since there are only two days of school this week, we will be tying up some loose ends. First, we will continue to work on our "Lemonade" projects which includes poetry writing. The kids are enjoying this activity. We will work on this during our language arts block. We will also continue our Time For Kids magazines for our current event focus.
Secondly, there will be NO SPELLING this week! Enjoy the time off! Spelling will resume the week of November 26th.
We will continue our read aloud book, Night of the Twisters, and the students will be adding summaries to their "Twister" books.
We will also be finishing up our grammar packet from last week which focused on prefixes, suffixes and root words.
During social studies on Monday, we will be testing chapter 5. I will also be collecting the study guides on Monday. Please bring them to school so that I can give you credit for doing them!! On Tuesday, we will begin chapter 6 which discusses life in the English colonies.
In math accel. this week, we will be finishing up Unit 2. The Unit 2 study guide will be going home on Monday, November 26th. The Unit 2 test will be on Friday of that week.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend. If you have any questions, please email me.
Thank you!
Delissa Bennick
The upcoming week will be a short one for us. We HAVE school on Monday and Tuesday this week. Thanksgiving Break begins Wednesday, 11/21. There is NO SCHOOL on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday this week. I hope that you all have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving. Gobble, Gobble!
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Saxena who came into our classroom this past Thursday to do a powerpoint presentation on the Indian culture and how it is similar and different to the American culture. We learned so much from you. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to educate us.
Just a reminder that there is a PTA Tea Chat/Meeting this Monday evening that begins at 5:00. I will be there!
Also, during the school day on Monday, there will be a PTA assembly for the students. Fun times!
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Since there are only two days of school this week, we will be tying up some loose ends. First, we will continue to work on our "Lemonade" projects which includes poetry writing. The kids are enjoying this activity. We will work on this during our language arts block. We will also continue our Time For Kids magazines for our current event focus.
Secondly, there will be NO SPELLING this week! Enjoy the time off! Spelling will resume the week of November 26th.
We will continue our read aloud book, Night of the Twisters, and the students will be adding summaries to their "Twister" books.
We will also be finishing up our grammar packet from last week which focused on prefixes, suffixes and root words.
During social studies on Monday, we will be testing chapter 5. I will also be collecting the study guides on Monday. Please bring them to school so that I can give you credit for doing them!! On Tuesday, we will begin chapter 6 which discusses life in the English colonies.
In math accel. this week, we will be finishing up Unit 2. The Unit 2 study guide will be going home on Monday, November 26th. The Unit 2 test will be on Friday of that week.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend. If you have any questions, please email me.
Thank you!
Delissa Bennick
Friday, November 9, 2012
5B News for the Week of 11/12
Hello Parents & Students:
Thank you to all of the parents who came to Parent-Teacher Conferences! It was a pleasure to meet all of you and I hope that you found it helpful and informative.
A big CONGRATULATIONS to all of the students in 5B! We earned the big purple alien to keep in our class this month! 5B had the most students who met their reading goals. Also, several students qualified for the 800 Minute Book Club treat for the month of October. Permission forms went home last week for those students who read 800 minutes or more during the month of October. Please return them at your earliest convenience. Thank you.
Here are a couple of reminders for this week's upcoming events:
Spelling: We are on Unit 10 this week. The pretest will be on Monday, and the test will be on Friday.
The words have been posted on the blog.
Language Arts: The reading projects were presented earlier this week and all groups did a great job. Most groups created power points, others created Prezis. They were all persuasive and would definitely make our World a better place if they were enforced. Next week, we will be reading a book entitled, Lemonade. This is a book of poems that have been created by using only the letters from one large word. This will be a challenging activity, but one that I hope the students will enjoy. We will be making our own mini books of "Lemonade" poems. We will also continue reading our TFK magazines this week for our current event focus. In grammar, we will be working on root words, prefixes and suffixes.
Math Accel.: We are currently working on multiplication and division with decimals. We are creating our own menus and then plan to use them in a mock restaurant activity. The students will work in groups and then order from one menu. They will then be responsible for totaling the cost of their meal, and adding on tax and gratuity. We will then move onto powers of 10 and exponents.
Social Studies: We have been discussing the original thirteen colonies these past few days. We have watched a couple of informative videos and taken notes. We also labeled the thirteen original colonies, on a map, and identified the three regions which include the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies. We will have a quiz on this on Tuesday. The students will be responsible for labeling the thirteen colonies and identifying which region each colony is in.
That's it for now. Please contact me with any questions or concerns. Enjoy the weekend!
Mrs. Bennick
Thank you to all of the parents who came to Parent-Teacher Conferences! It was a pleasure to meet all of you and I hope that you found it helpful and informative.
A big CONGRATULATIONS to all of the students in 5B! We earned the big purple alien to keep in our class this month! 5B had the most students who met their reading goals. Also, several students qualified for the 800 Minute Book Club treat for the month of October. Permission forms went home last week for those students who read 800 minutes or more during the month of October. Please return them at your earliest convenience. Thank you.
Here are a couple of reminders for this week's upcoming events:
- Nov. 12-16 Diversity Week (If you would like to come into our classroom to present information about a cultural tradition of yours, please contact me.)
- November 15-Picture Retake Day and Culver's Night (I will be at Culver's night...hope to see you!)
- Nov. 21-25 Thanksgiving Break-No School
Spelling: We are on Unit 10 this week. The pretest will be on Monday, and the test will be on Friday.
The words have been posted on the blog.
Language Arts: The reading projects were presented earlier this week and all groups did a great job. Most groups created power points, others created Prezis. They were all persuasive and would definitely make our World a better place if they were enforced. Next week, we will be reading a book entitled, Lemonade. This is a book of poems that have been created by using only the letters from one large word. This will be a challenging activity, but one that I hope the students will enjoy. We will be making our own mini books of "Lemonade" poems. We will also continue reading our TFK magazines this week for our current event focus. In grammar, we will be working on root words, prefixes and suffixes.
Math Accel.: We are currently working on multiplication and division with decimals. We are creating our own menus and then plan to use them in a mock restaurant activity. The students will work in groups and then order from one menu. They will then be responsible for totaling the cost of their meal, and adding on tax and gratuity. We will then move onto powers of 10 and exponents.
Social Studies: We have been discussing the original thirteen colonies these past few days. We have watched a couple of informative videos and taken notes. We also labeled the thirteen original colonies, on a map, and identified the three regions which include the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies. We will have a quiz on this on Tuesday. The students will be responsible for labeling the thirteen colonies and identifying which region each colony is in.
That's it for now. Please contact me with any questions or concerns. Enjoy the weekend!
Mrs. Bennick
Saturday, November 3, 2012
5B News for the Week of November 5th
Hello Parents & Students,
Parent-Teacher Conferences are this week. The times are as follows: Monday-4:30-8:00, Tuesday-8:00-3:00 (There is no school for students this day.) and Thursday-4:30-8:00. Thank you for signing up in advance and I look forward to speaking with all of you.
Report cards went home yesterday. Please check your child's backpack.
Thanks to Mrs. Straub for creating our 5B Shutterfly website. The site is password protected, so you will need to contact Mrs. Straub to gain membership access. Her contact info. was sent out in a previous email. Halloween pictures have been posted and I just posted some pictures of the campfire/marshmallow reading activity, kindergarten buddies and 5B math accel. class. Enjoy!
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling- We are on Unit 9 this week. The words have been posted. The pretest will be on Monday and the test will be on Friday, as usual.
Language Arts- We will be finishing up our current reading project, How to Make the World a Better Place, on Monday and some groups will present on Monday and others will present on Wednesday. Our reading skills this week will include determining the main idea, explaining relationships between events, ideas or concepts in a historical text, drawing inferences, and word analysis when using content specific vocabulary. Basically, we will be comparing newspapers and events from long ago with today's newspapers and events.
We will continue to focus on grammar with commas, pronouns, prefixes and suffixes as our focus. This past week the class published the 2nd edition of the Bennick Biz...our class newspaper. Great teamwork is occurring to make this newspaper a reality.
Math Accel- Decimals will continue to be our focus this week. We will begin multiplying and dividing decimals and we will also be studying exponents and powers of ten. We will have a short quiz on Wednesday on adding and subtracting decimals.
Social Studies- We will continue on in social studies for the next 4 1/2 weeks of school. Then, we will switch back over to science for the last 4 1/2 weeks of the second quarter. The 5th grade team decided that this approach would work best as we are currently working our way to the Revolutionary War and we felt that the material would be a bit too choppy if we started the unit, then stopped to work on science, and then returned. The curriculum will have a better flow to it this way.
That's it for now. Enjoy the rest of the weekend! Please contact me with any questions or concerns.
Delissa Bennick
Parent-Teacher Conferences are this week. The times are as follows: Monday-4:30-8:00, Tuesday-8:00-3:00 (There is no school for students this day.) and Thursday-4:30-8:00. Thank you for signing up in advance and I look forward to speaking with all of you.
Report cards went home yesterday. Please check your child's backpack.
Thanks to Mrs. Straub for creating our 5B Shutterfly website. The site is password protected, so you will need to contact Mrs. Straub to gain membership access. Her contact info. was sent out in a previous email. Halloween pictures have been posted and I just posted some pictures of the campfire/marshmallow reading activity, kindergarten buddies and 5B math accel. class. Enjoy!
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling- We are on Unit 9 this week. The words have been posted. The pretest will be on Monday and the test will be on Friday, as usual.
Language Arts- We will be finishing up our current reading project, How to Make the World a Better Place, on Monday and some groups will present on Monday and others will present on Wednesday. Our reading skills this week will include determining the main idea, explaining relationships between events, ideas or concepts in a historical text, drawing inferences, and word analysis when using content specific vocabulary. Basically, we will be comparing newspapers and events from long ago with today's newspapers and events.
We will continue to focus on grammar with commas, pronouns, prefixes and suffixes as our focus. This past week the class published the 2nd edition of the Bennick Biz...our class newspaper. Great teamwork is occurring to make this newspaper a reality.
Math Accel- Decimals will continue to be our focus this week. We will begin multiplying and dividing decimals and we will also be studying exponents and powers of ten. We will have a short quiz on Wednesday on adding and subtracting decimals.
Social Studies- We will continue on in social studies for the next 4 1/2 weeks of school. Then, we will switch back over to science for the last 4 1/2 weeks of the second quarter. The 5th grade team decided that this approach would work best as we are currently working our way to the Revolutionary War and we felt that the material would be a bit too choppy if we started the unit, then stopped to work on science, and then returned. The curriculum will have a better flow to it this way.
That's it for now. Enjoy the rest of the weekend! Please contact me with any questions or concerns.
Delissa Bennick
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