Both an invitation for students and a parent note went home with your child about the following events on Friday.

CHRISTMAS GIFT GIVING:   Candy cane/ticket sales will begin Monday morning and go through Thursday. $1 per ticket/candy cane combination.
Last week's blog had information about the 5th grade having no gift exchange, rather students/teachers will be able to buy a ticket/candy cane as a gift for a friend or teacher. Money will be collected and the student whose name is drawn will get to choose the charity donations will go to.
 We talked about various charities on Thursday and the importance of giving to others.
  ELOQUENCE DAY!! 
  This will be Friday, December 19th. Buses will pick us up at 10:45 and we will return no later than 12:30.
  CLOTHING:

Come to school wearing Eloquence Day outfit. Students should bring additional clothes to change into if they have PE or if they just want to change for the remainder of the day.

  *Homework this weekend- Math- this is in their planners- students have different assignments so they'll need to check their planners.
  No December Book Project, but reading is expected daily homework.

MATH: 
 There are tutorials for cross-multiplying, fractions X a fraction, and fraction X a whole number, and dividing fractions and whole numbers in the math tab. 

We continue review of adding and subtracting fractions, multiplying and dividing fractions. This week we added in division of fractions and used play dough to make models. We will have a quiz on Monday over multiplying fractions.
 
   RETEST: Next week, I will be giving any student who received a '1' on any section of the "Adding & Subtracting Fractions" test a retake of those sections missed. After all the review we have done and now doing many of the same concepts in this unit in addition to the new, this will be a good time to take it again.

LANGUAGE ARTS
  We continue with book clubs reading Long Way from Chicago. We read an article about kids and extreme sports as well as watched a video clip. Students worked on comprehension questions and we are working on writing an opinion piece choosing whether they think extreme sports are OK for kids or too dangerous.

SCIENCE:

Students took the test on Tuesday. Scores are in Powerschool, but they will not be able to take the test home until all students have completed it. We have had many absent students in the 2 classes I teach.  This coming week we will be reading nonfiction articles about forces and motion.

 

Spelling: We took the skill and proofreading tests Friday. This will come home Monday.