WEEK OF JANUARY 16-JANUARY 20

MONDAY, JAN. 23..... PTO MEETING – 7PM
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 ........NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY, JAN. 31.....January Book Project is Due

CONGRATUALTIONS to Karina Stork our 5th Grade Spelling Bee winner and to Tori Folkert our runner-up!
All our spellers did well!
Allyssa Vandenberg, Karina Stork,Tori Folkert, Sydney Ruiter, Sam Sprik, Peyton Remick
Alex Murphy, Will Jordan, Hannah Wettlauffer, Bradley Osborne, Georgia Timm, and Alaina Copeland

  MATH:
We continue in Chapter 8 fraction operations unit reviewing adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators. We added in adding mixed numbers. Students completed the Ch. 7 study guide and those who have not taken the test yet will do this on Monday. We will practice subtracting mixed numbers, continue to work work on problem solving skills, and have a quiz over previously covered concepts.
 
READING:
We are working in guided reading groups reading the novels Tuck Everlasting, Gilly Hopkins, Stone Fox, and Bridge to Terabithia. Students are working with me and together as small groups discussing components of their novels, reading aloud, working on vocabulary in context and character, and story elements.


WRITING:
We read a few more newspaper articles this week to look at the difference between writing a story and a story for a newspaper. We broke down the articles into the who, what, when, where, and why and how. We discussed what questions reporters may have asked to get the responses we were reading. Students are working on their questions and pre-writing. Some students are choosing to interview others and write true news and some students are writing fictional articles that are meant to sound like true news.
We also practiced a little with the newspaper template. 


SPELLING:
Our skill this week has been consonant diagraphs- ch, sh, ph, wh, th.



SCIENCE:
This week's focus was again on simple machines. We experimented with ramps to see how they make work easier. We discussed and worked with wheels and axles. The students enjoyed watching a Bill Nye video that gave us a recap on simple machines. Flight is next- Time to make and fly paper airplanes!