Week of March 2

In March we are having some special days. 
I will talk to the kids about these on Monday.

Friday March 13.......PINK DAY- wear pink!
Tuesday March 17... GREEN DAY wear green!
Friday March 20......YELLOW DAY wear yellow! and we have some "yellow activities"
Friday March 27......EARLY COLONIES DAY - Dress like early colonists- we will help


PUBERTY/HIV/AIDS Lessons- Your child brought home permission forms that need to be signed and returned by the due date on the papers. This is for all of 5th grade. You may opt your child in or out of the presentations. Students who don't return forms will be included in the presentations.
 
Homework: Page 114 in the workbook- all.
  

For all:  Reading: Read every day.

  

For some: Delta Math Review-  (This weekend some students may not have the packet at home as they were to get it returned on Friday.)

Several students brought home a packet to review concepts they need to continue to practice at home and school. These are to be turned in to me on Monday for a check in. There was a note attached to the front about them not having to be completed, just show that some work has been done.

  For all:  March Book Project- Due March 30

March Book Project: Create a book jacket for your book.

I went through the March assignment and handed out directions for this last week. 

I have the book jacket templates at school and students can get those whenever they are ready. We review these assignment once or twice every week for a reminder.

MATH:  
 There are tutorials for division and some practice in order of the concept to be taught. 

  We continue working in our Division unit. We reviewed using various problem-solving strategies. Some answers require, rounding up, some using the divisor and remainder as a fraction or decimal, and sometimes the answer is the remainder. We are reviewing dividing when there is a decimal in the divisor and dividend or when there is only a divisor in the dividend. We
READING:  

  Students presented their February Book projects. 

We are nearing the end of our genre unit reading Sign of the Beaver. It revolves around the theme of facing challenges. We have been reading as a class and in pairs to discuss this novel. Students are working on comprehension and strategies, quoting from  and paraphrasing text, and using text clues to respond to questions and find meaning of unknown vocabulary. We completed our read aloud, Echohawk, and will be comparing that character and Attean from The Sign of the Beaver. We will begin book club soon and students will be working in groups of 4-5 with books at there reading level.

 

WRITING:   Students compared and contrasted two articles from "The History of Yum" on a graphic organizer wrote a compare/contrast piece. They also presented their "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" comma illustrations.

                                                                                                                                       

SCIENCE: 

  Students will finish presenting their research projects about planets.We will be doing test review all week. The test will be on Monday March 16th.

 

Spelling  Students took Spelling Test 21 on Friday. This week's skill is the spelling of the /j/ sound.

  We will continue to learn about comma rules, have more lessons on using quotation marks, and continue to learn about and use figurative language.