5B Activities for the Week of March 10, 2014

Hello Parents and Students:

ISATs are over!  We enjoyed our Marble Jar Celebration at the end of the week.

Congratulations to all of those students who are continuing to read and log their minutes!  Our class won the Alien again this month!  Great job!

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

Word Study/Spelling:  This week our focus will be on the advanced spellings of -ti, -tu, -ture, and -ci.  The words have been posted to the blog.  The test will be on Friday, as usual.  The word study lessons these past two weeks have been short with not as many words to learn.  This is why there have been less words posted.

Math Accel:  Unit 5 is a very short unit.  We will be finishing up the last lesson tomorrow.  Our current lesson is on reflections in geometry.  The students should be studying their notes and homework sheets for the test which will be this Friday.  There will be no study guide for this unit.  We will begin Unit 6 mid-week and the focus skill is Number Systems and Algebra Concepts.

English Language Arts (ELA):  This week in ELA we will be finishing up our discussion of the story, Potatoes, Eggs and Coffee Beans.  We will continue our current read-aloud book, The Liberation of Gabriel King.  Our discussions pertaining to this book have been very thoughtful and insightful.  It's making us think.  What a great book it is!  I will be reading a poetry book entitled, Lemonade.  This is a book of poems that are "squeezed" from a single word.  We will then be creating and illustrating our own poems that are "squeezed" from a single word.

Science:  We will begin studying the Digestive System this week.  We will be working in Inquiry Circles to formulate questions pertaining to the digestive system.  I created a power point about the digestive system that we will be viewing and taking notes on.  We will be studying this system until Spring Break.  Over the next three weeks, we will be creating our own medical brochure about the digestive system and creating visuals to describe it.

That's the update for the week!  Please email me with any questions.

Thank you!

~Mrs. Bennick