5B Activities for the Week of May 18, 2015

Hello Parents and Students!

Here are the reminders for this week:

1.  Our field trip to the WVHS Planetarium is this Monday.  We will return to May Watts after lunch, so hot lunch will not be available.  Please send a lunch with your child on Monday.

2.  The MW Volunteer Luncheon is this Tuesday, May 19th, from 11:00-1:00.  We hope to see all of our wonderful parent volunteers there!

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

Word Study:  We will remain on the same word list as last week.  We are very involved in both science and social studies now and simply ran out of time for word study last week.

Math Acceleration:  We will continue on in Unit 7, Statistics and Probability.  We will start the week finishing off box and whisker plots.  We have a pretty good understanding of measures of center and measures of variability now.  By Wednesday, we should be working on bar graphs.  We will remain on bar graphs for the remainder of the week.

English Language Arts (ELA):  We will continue studying our anchor text, Maniac Magee.  We will complete Part I of the book this week and will be writing a reflection about it in our journals.  We will also list all of the events that took place in Two Mills on the first day that the main character, Jeffrey, arrived.  With this information, students will complete an illustrated map to show event locations and evidence to support it.  We will also be reading a story in our anthology entitled, Dear Mr. Henshaw.

Science:  We are very busy in science these days!  We completed our unit on Stars and took the test last week.  Graded tests will be coming home on Monday.  We learned the parts of a microscope (quiz this week on this) and how to prepare a slide correctly.  This week, we will be looking at various specimen under the microscope such as hair, thread and an onion!

Social Studies:  Our Constitution/Westward Movement/Slavery foldable project will be due mid-week.  We will then be presenting these late in the week for a listening/speaking grade.

That's it for now.  Please email me with questions.

Thank you!

Mrs. Bennick :-)