5B Activities for the Week of May 26th, 2015

Hello Parents and Students!

Here are the reminders for this week:

1.  There is no school tomorrow, Monday, May 25th, due to the Memorial Day holiday.  Enjoy the extra day off!

2.  Our Fifth Grade Farewell celebration will take place this Tuesday, May 26th.  We will be traveling by bus to Aurora Skate Center and skating from 10:00-12:30.  There will be games set up for those students who do not want to skate.  Lunch will be served at the skate center (pizza) and then we will return to May Watts at approximately 1:30.  When we arrive back at Watts, the students will be playing games, taking pictures and viewing the slide show.  We will also have a dessert bar!  :-)

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

Word Study:  We will be learning some commonly misspelled words this week.  Due to the short week, the students will not be having a test at the end of the week.  However, we will be having a spelling bee on these words on Friday.

Math Acceleration:  We will be finishing up Unit 7, Statistics and Probability, early next week.  The last few skills to be taught will include bar graphs, step graphs, broken line graphs and percent circles.  Our test on this unit will be next Wednesday, June 3rd.

English Language Arts (ELA):  We will be finishing up our anchor text, Maniac Magee, by the end of the school year.  We have been enjoying some great discussions related to this book.  We will also be presenting our social studies foldable projects during this time period over the next few days.  Students will be finishing up their Writer's Workshop projects this week and presenting them this Friday and next Friday.  We are just tying up the loose ends at this point.

Social Studies:  We finished our foldable project and they look great.  We will be presenting them this week.  Also, we will begin our study of the Civil War.  This week our topics will include how the North and South grew apart and discussing our views on slavery.

Science:  We will be learning about protozoa this week and will be viewing paramecium, amoeba and euglena under the microscope.  This has been a fun unit.  The students have really enjoyed learning about and using the microscopes!

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

Thank you!

Mrs. Bennick :-)