There are no reminders for this week!
PARCC testing for Grade 5 has been completed! :-) Make-ups for students who were absent last week will occur this week.
Here's what's going on in the curricular areas this week:
Word Study: We will continue our study of the R-Controlled syllable type. We will also be working on homophones this week. The words have been posted to the blog. The test will be on Friday.
Math Acceleration: We will be testing Unit 5 on Tuesday this week. Students received a study guide last week and should be studying it and all of their notes/homework papers from Unit 5. We will be starting Unit 6, which is Geometry, most likely on Friday. Remember, we have the PA math test on Thursday this week. The Geometry unit is slated to last approximately three weeks. Our first few lessons will be finding the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals and polygons.
ELA: We will continue studying our anchor text, Red Kayak. It is so good! Students have been introduced to the vocabulary words for chapters 13-15 and will have a short quiz on these words late in the week. We will continue brainstorming ideas for our narrative poems. This week, students will be using a graphic organizer to help prepare them for writing their poems. The organizer will help the students to identify the character(s), setting, event(s) and plot. They will then use this information to write their poems. My plan is to have the students finish their poems by week's end. We'll see how this goes. If there's time, we will begin reading a short story entitled, Potatoes, Eggs and Coffee Beans. This lesson will most likely take place the following week.
Science: The students took the Digestive System test at the end of this week. The tests have been graded and will be coming home on Monday along with other graded papers. Most students did very well. Also, students should continue to work on their Digestive System brochures. These will be due in a couple of weeks.
Social Studies: We have been studying events leading to the Revolutionary War and important people of that time. We did a comparison of King George III and George Washington and discussed the choices that they made and how those choices led to the United States becoming its own country. We will continue studying main events such as the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party and the trouble with taxes.
That's it for this week.
Please email me with any questions.
Thank you!
Mrs. Bennick :-)
