5B Activities for the Week of 2/25/13

Hello Parents and Students:

Here we are at the last week of February!  I can't believe how quickly the time is passing.  Just a reminder that there is no school this Friday, March 1st, for students.  It is Teacher Institute Day.

Then, the following week, ISAT testing begins.  To prepare for ISAT testing, we will be doing some whole group practice and independent practice so that we know how to pace ourselves during the actual testing.

Here's what's going on in 5B this week:

Spelling:  We are on Unit 21 this week.  The words have been posted to the blog.  The pretest will be on Monday and the test will be on THURSDAY. 

Language Arts:  During LA time this week, we will be doing a few different things.  First, like I mentioned earlier, we will be doing some ISAT practice.  Then, we will continue to work on our Courage activities.  Many of us have completed our compare/contrast activity of two courageous people in history.  We have written our own "courage" quotes and they were quite good!  Going forward, we will begin to make our own courage books based on the book, Courage, by Bernard Waber.  Depending on how much time we have this week, we may have to move this activity to next week.  In writing, we will do another extended response based on the book, Wonder.  We are nearing the end of the book, and it is so good.  We will try to fit in a Time For Kids magazine for our current event focus.  If we do, the topic will be saving cheetahs. 

Math Accel:  We will be testing Unit 4 on Monday.  We may need to continue testing into Tuesday, as the Unit 4 test is lengthy.  We just started Unit 5, which focuses on Geometry.  Currently, we are studying integers and rational/irrational numbers.  Unit 5 is short and will probably only take us about three weeks to complete.  Also, a letter went home yesterday to all Math Accel. students informing you of the date for PA math testing.

Social Studies:  We tested Chapter 8 last week.  Chapter 9 is about the colonies declaring independence from Great Britain and the Revolutionary War. 

That's it for now.  The next two weeks are going to be busy, busy, busy!!! 

Enjoy the weekend!

Delissa Bennick :-)