5B Activities for the Week of December 2, 2013

Hello 5B Parents and Students!

Here are the reminders for this week.

1.  Gates testing will occur on Wednesday, December 4th.  This is an assessment to check reading comprehension and vocabulary.

2.  Culver's Night is this Thursday evening.  I will be there from 5:00-6:00pm.  Hope to see you!

Spelling/Word Study:  This week we are on Lesson 12, suffixes.  The words have been posted to the blog.  The students will need to know how to spell the words, know their meanings and how to diagram some of them.  The test will be on Friday.

Math Accel:  We just finished up Unit 2 and had a couple of days to work on problem solving before Thanksgiving break.  Monday we will begin Unit 3 which will focus on variables, both independent and dependent and algebraic expressions.

English Language Arts (ELA):  We will continue our empathy/bully lessons this week.  Our topic will continue to be using manners and showing common courtesies.  Our read-aloud book continues to be, Wonder.  We created a t-chart of ordinary and extraordinary courage.  We will be reading the book, Courage, by Bernard Waber this week.  The students will then begin writing their own books about courage.  Our TFK this week will focus on the life of Abraham Lincoln.  We will be doing some close reads of passages in the TFK.  We will also be comparing characters from history to the main character in the book, Wonder, Auggie.

Social Studies:  We will continue with our second tic-tac-toe project this week.  We will be spending some time in the computer lab to work on it.  The second activity will be due this Friday.  Also, we will soon be integrating some science back into our curriculum by the end of the week.  I will be teaching both SS and Science moving forward and our topic in science will be electricity and magnetism.

That's it for now.  Please email me with any questions or concerns.  Have a great week, everyone!

~Mrs. Bennick