Hello Parents and Students!
Here are the reminders for the week:
Whole group and individual CBM testing will occur on Monday. Due to last week's cold days, it was necessary to move testing to this week.
The principal from Hill Middle School presented information to all 5th grade students yesterday about their course options for next school year. Please take a look at the form, read it carefully and choose your child's option for next year. Please make sure to sign the form and then return it to me at your earliest convenience, but no later than January 30th. Thank you.
Just a reminder that there is no school for students this Friday, January 16th. It is a Teacher Work Day. Also, there is no school the following Monday, January 19th. It is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day.
Here's what's going on in the curricular areas this week:
Word Study: We will remain on the same word list as last week as we did not have enough time to study the words having missed two days. The test will be on Thursday because there is no school on Friday.
Math Acceleration: We will continue working in Unit 4. We have completed lessons on prime factorization and greatest common factor. We completed an exit slip on prime factorization and will be completing one on GCF early next week. Our next lessons will include least common multiple and divisibility/divisibility rules.
ELA: Our focus will continue to be on our anchor text, The Liberation of Gabriel King. We have had a lot of great discussions about this book. This week, we will learn new vocabulary words, answer a variety of text-dependent questions and participate in another close reading pertaining to this book. We will continue to discuss Citizenship and the importance of being respectful. The students will also be introduced to another story from our anthology entitled, Iditarod Dream. We will revisit our essential questions and compare/contrast courage shown in both Gabriel King and Iditarod Dream.
Social Studies: We have begun our research on the lost colony of Roanoke. We are in the process of generating our own theories about what happened to the people of this lost colony. The students will be writing a theory based on their research findings, describing their point of view along with listing reasons with supporting evidence to prove their theories. We will also be relating the colonists' courage to that of Gabe King and the main character in the Iditarod story. The students will be using an evidence based terms chart that I created to help them complete this activity. Their final product will be a completed picture book that displays/shows/proves their theory.
That is it for this week. Please email me with any questions.
Thank you and have a great week!
Mrs. Bennick :-)
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Asheville, North Carolina
