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
