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