Week of September 14-17

Last week was a great week.  We had 5th grade Candy Bar Craze Days with each 5th grader designing their own candy bar on the chromebook.  Numerous students decided to try and make it for real and we were able to look at and taste their creations.  Students were not required to make the candy bar, but some did and are still working on it for extra points.

Both 5th and 6th grade completed drawings of maps or sketches of the ship that represent the setting for the novel being read.  This week we are focusing on characters from the books. 6th graders are doing character presentations and 5th grade will doing a character Word-It-Out.


5th grade Language Arts:  We will be working on spelling pages 20-23 this week.  Pre-test on Monday, pages and final test on Thursday. Both classes have been doing well with completing the spelling pages with just a few incompletes.
Grammar is more on combining sentences.  We will work together on skill pages 19-20 on Tuesday.  Wednesday we will complete page 21 and page 22 will be assigned.  If understanding is good we will take the quiz on Thursday.
We will most likely finish Maniac Magee next week or early the following week.  We will have one more set of vocabulary words, and one more journal.  On Monday each class will be assigned Quiz #2 on Google Classroom to be completed for Tuesday. There will be a final test with vocabulary words included sometime the week of September 21st. We will go over what is on the test ahead of time.

5th grade Social Studies:  On Monday we will be reading about Native American stories and each student will be creating their own Winter Count.  They will design a pictograph story representing each year of their life.  We will put the stories on a large canvas and it will hang in the hallway.
We are done with chapter 2 - it is really just an introduction for chapter 3.  We will take a very short quiz on it on Thursday.  Students will receive a short study guide on Tuesday that we will go over on Wednesday.  They must have it complete and at school Wednesday to receive points on the study guide.


6th grade Literature: Both classes have Quiz #2 due Monday(6C) or Tuesday(6H) next week.
Groups are working on their Character presentations.  We will be presenting on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.  We will also be working on Vocabulary during the week.  Sometime within the next week or two we will come to the end of our reading of True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.  I will let the students know about the final test at that time.