5B News for the Week of February 11th, 2013

Hello Parents and Students!

Just a few reminders for the upcoming week.  First, Parent-Teacher Conference forms went home on Friday.  Please check your child's backpack.  Next, Our Valentine's Day Party will be this Thursday, February 14th, from 2:30-3:15.  Sending in Valentine cards is optional, however, if your child chooses to send in cards, please have them bring in one for every child in the class.  Also, there should be no candy attached to the cards.  Thank you. 

It was great to see all of the wonderful science experiments at the Science Fair.  Great job by all! 

And...Congratulations on a job well done at the 5th Grade Musical!

We will be attending a PTA assembly on Tuesday morning!  We are looking forward to it. 

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

Spelling:  Unit 20 has been posted to the blog.  The pretest will be on Monday and the test will be on Friday, as usual.

Language Arts:  We will be starting a new extended response in writing this week.  The question will be another one that's related to our read-aloud book, Wonder.  The kids are really enjoying this book.  It's very touching. We will also be finishing up an expository writing piece.  In reading, I will be introducing a short picture book entitled, Courage.  We will be discussing various kinds of courage over the next few weeks and will  compare/contrast different characters from books that have shown courage. We will also be reading a TFK which will focus on the highlights of 2012.  In grammar, we will continue our work with verbs.

Math Accel.:  We have discussed least common multiple, greatest common factor, multiplying decimals and will soon begin studying percentage.  We had an exit slip last friday on LCM and GCF.  Some students are still a bit confused between these two skills.  We will review it again over the next few days. 

Social Studies:  We have switched back over to social studies.  We have discussed some vocabulary words and completed a lesson on taxing.  (Almost!)  Moving forward, we will be focusing on the colonists and how they rebelled against the British.  We will also discuss the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts and the Boston Tea Party. 

Please email me with any questions or concerns.
Enjoy the weekend! 

Delissa Bennick :-)