5B Activities for the Week of April 27th, 2015

Hello Parents and Students!

Here are the reminders for this week: 

1.  The second part of PARCC testing will occur this week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday only.  Testing will take place in the morning.  There will be one ELA test and two Math tests.

2.  We will be having another Marble Jar Celebration this Friday!  We still need to decide what we'll be doing, so stay tuned!  :-)

3.  Please return the field trip forms for both the WVHS Planetarium field trip and the Hill MS field trip.  Thank you!

Here's what's going on in the curricular areas this week: 

Word Study:  This week we will be working on words with advanced spellings.  This is part I of this lesson.  Part II will take place next week.  These words have tricky spellings, so please study.  The test will be on Friday as usual.

Math Acceleration:  We will finish our Unit 6 test on Monday.  We will also be taking a pre-assessment of skills that will be taught in Unit 7 which is Statistics and Probability.  Our first lesson on Statistics and Probability will occur on Wednesday.

English Language Arts (ELA):  We will continue what we started in ELA this week.  We are moving along in our anchor text, Maniac Magee.  We will also finish discussing the story from our reading anthology, Hattie's Birthday Box.  We have been working on our annotating skills and will continue with that this week.  During this time, we will also be working on our combined SS/ELA foldable project.

Social Studies:  Our main project in SS now is our Constitution/Westward Movement foldable project.  The students received the guidelines for the project last week.  They should be awesome when they are finished.  They will be presenting their foldable project when completed.  This will be a combined SS/Speaking & Listening grade.

Science:  We're moving along in science as well.  We discussed classification of stars and colors of stars.  We will continue to focus on vocabulary such as red giant, main sequence, supergiant, spectral class, supernova, nebula, white dwarf, neutron star, black hole and planetary nebula.

That's it for this week.  Please email me with questions.

Thank you!

Mrs. Bennick :-)