Hello Parents and Students!
Welcome Back! I hope that you all enjoyed a wonderful Spring Break!
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Word Study/Spelling: We are on Lesson 23 this week. For the next few weeks we will be focusing on Latin and Greek Roots. This week the two roots will be "press" and "scribe" words. We will also be reviewing the six syllable types this week. The test will be on Friday and will include spelling of words, diagramming and some definitions. We will discuss the test format further in class.
Math Accel: We will be reviewing multiplying and dividing fractions. Then, we will be moving onto adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers and order of operations. We may not get to order of operations this week, but will definitely get to it early next week. Also, order of operations is the last lesson in Unit 6. The Unit 6 test will be late next week.
English Language Arts (ELA): We will begin a new writing activity based on a book entitled, Fortunately, by Remy Charlip. What a great prompt this book is for creative writing! The students will be writing their own Fortunately/Unfortunately books. The students will be introduced to this activity Monday or Tuesday. Our new read-aloud book will be Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings which will make us laugh and cry and will lead to some great discussions about deception and suspense. We will also be using some of this time to review our six syllable types for word study and our TFK focus will be on women leaders.
Science: We will begin our unit on Space this week. We will be heading to the WVHS Planetarium the week of April 21st. Our topics of discussion over the next few weeks will be Space, Sun, Star Sizes & Distances, Classification of Stars, Colors of Stars, Star Birth & Death and Galaxies. There is a lot of vocabulary in these lessons. We will be taking a lot of notes, drawing visuals and watching some informative videos over the next few weeks.
That's it for now.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Bennick
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Asheville, North Carolina
