About the Week of May 11th and looking ahead...

About the Week of May 11th and looking ahead... 

UPCOMING DATES:

Friday May 22nd: DUNES FIELD TRIP

Monday May 25th: NO SCHOOL- Memorial Day 

May 21st and May 28th I will be gone. The same sub they have had the other 2 times I was gone will be there.  (Mrs. VanHuis)

HOMEWORK: 

1) Math: Lesson: Students have a page reviewing measuring with metric units. They also have a graphic organizer to assist them.

        2) Reading: ALL: Reading daily is a homework expectation.       

MATH:   

   Our focus for measurement so far has been practicing measuring, comparing, and converting metric units of length, capacity, and mass as well as customary units of length. We will continue reviewing this and add in customary units of capacity and mass. We will also learn about line plots. Students took the 6th Grade Delta Math test this week.

 READING: 

Book club papers will come home this week- I need to get them passed back and have the kids staple them together. Those grades have been put in already. We began The Fighting Ground, our last genre unit.We have been reading as a class so far, discussing vocabulary, character motive and reactions to events, visualizing scenes, and summarizing information. We are also reviewing how to write a summary, write a complete response, and quote accurately from text.

WRITING:

I have Biographies all graded and most students have theirs returned. I will put the grades in this weekend. We began our Poetry unit this week. This centers around grammar and figurative language review and includes poems that focus on these skills, but are also fun! Mrs. Custer and I will have a "Poetry Cafe" that parents will be invited to where you may listen to your students read and act out their own poetry and the poetry of published authors.   Poetry Cafe will be May 27th in the morning. Mrs. Custer will have hers first, and then we will trade classrooms so we have a larger area for the Cafe' and so our parents who have twins are able to see both of their children.
  If you replied about donations, I will send out a slip to you on Monday as to which item to bring- and thank you!
Science:
We had our quiz on Friday over lessons 1-6.  We aslo discussed fossils and what paleontologists can discover from them. Next week we will talk about natural disasters and how they can affect climate and animal habitats. We will discuss body systems and how they work together. I am hoping there will be enough time for students to create their own animal using what they know about classification, physical and behavioral adaptations and how these work with what an animals habitat would be.

Spelling Students took Spelling Test 29 on Friday. This week's skill is synonyms and antonyms. This will be the LAST SPELLING TEST! The Lesson 30 words are in the spelling tab. Your child should study these particularly if the proofreading has been difficult for them. The spelling tests typically get a little more difficult toward the end of the year now. I will give paper copies out to anyone who wants one.