Hello Parents and Students!
Jump Rope for Heart will take place Monday morning. Come ready to jump!!!
Our last Interim Assessment will take place this Wednesday.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week!
Word Study/Spelling: We will be doing the second part to lesson 25. We are still studying Latin and Greek roots. In fact, this will be our focus for the remainder of the school year. This week, we are learning about the root (-man/-manu). The words have been posted to the blog. The test will be on Friday and it will be the same format as last week's test.
Math Accel: We started Unit 8 last week. We have studied rates, unit rates and rate tables. We are currently working on proportions. This week, we will continue with proportions and then begin studying caloric use and using nutritional information. Please bring in one or two food labels!
English Language Arts (ELA): We will continue our study of the book, Red Kayak. We will be finishing up our trifold activity this week and will be doing a character analysis. (We ran out of time last week to do this.) We will also be completing our Fortunately books. They will be due on Wednesday. We will also fit in a Time For Kids issue this week. The topic will be Mind Games/Video Games.
Social Studies: We have a lot going on in SS currently. In fact, some of our ELA time will be used for SS work. I backtracked a little bit last week and discussed the Westward Movement, the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark. We will have a couple of activities to complete on these topics this week and then we will move onto the War of 1812 and the Star Spangled Banner. We will be completing a mini project on the War of 1812/Star Spangled Banner which will include a close read, history, facts, vocabulary, and a couple of extra credit opportunities.
That's it for this week!
Have a great week everyone!
~Mrs. Bennick
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Asheville, North Carolina
