Week of November 9-13

Last week was a busy week in all the classes. In LIterature we are reading stories and poems out of our Lit textbooks.  We are learning numerous literary elements as we go.  We will spend one more week in our textbooks before moving on to a new novel.

Make sure your student is reading their book for book report.  They are welcome to begin the project whenever the book is read.  I will give them a date that is ok to bring in the reports.

5th grade language arts:  Spelling - this week's pages are 64-67.  Pretest on Monday and pages and final test on Thursday.  Grammar - we will review plural and possessive nouns over the next few weeks.  I will be sending home one review page each week.  There are still some struggling with this skill.  As a class we will move on to Verbs.  We will be working from pages 65-66, assigning p67 and 68.  Friday will be the weekly quiz.

In literature we will introduce and read "Esther Morris Headed West" on Monday.  On Tuesday we will do a class worksheet on the story.  Wednesday will be a test on the story, fact and opinion, and the notes we have taken over historical fiction, biography, and autobiography.  The notes are in each student's lit notebook. They should bring it home on Tuesday to review.

We continue to work on reading poetry.  We will begin writing our own at the end of the week.

5th grade social studies:  We will be taking chapter 5 test on Monday.  Again, students can use their notebook to help on the test.  They should have reviewed the questions on the worksheet for other parts of the test.  We will begin our research project on Tuesday.  I will send a follow up email on the day that you should expect to see the rough draft come home for corrections.  Then I will post the final date the essay needs to be turned in.  Again we will do most of the work in class.

Settlement Survival Day is on Thursday.  We will play a survival game based on the three settlements we study in chapter 6.  We will then investigate 2 of those settlements further in class.


6th grade literature:  We are finishing up our story "Lob's Girl".  We learned numerous literary elements from the story as well as a great discussion about the ending.  We are doing a writing piece this week based on the theme of this story. Most 6th graders still need to have someone else read over their writing before turning it in.  It will be on Google classroom by mid week.  Check it out!
 We will read one last story "Scout's Honor" from the textbook this week.  We will take a unit test on all 4 stories and notes we have taken in class at the end of the week/beginning of next week.  I will send home a study guide and test date later this week.
We will begin reading Hatchet Monday, November 16.