5B News for the Week of 11/26

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