Week of Feb. 29-March 4: Final week of Third Quarter

Reminder:  This is the final week of the third quarter!!

There are numerous assignments due this week as well as tests.  Make sure to check what is due.

5th Grade Language Arts:  We have a normal week.  Spelling pretest on Monday.  Pages 148-151 are due Thursday as well as the final test.  Ask your student how they did on the pretest.  I hand it back so they can use it as a study tool.  The last several weeks have had difficult lists of words.  You may need to go over the words at home.
Grammar:  Continuing with adjectives.  We will complete a chromebook assignment both Wednesday and Thursday this week, due on Friday.

Literature:  We have finished reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe!  Students were to read the last chapter over the weekend.  We will do a final writing assignment tomorrow in class.  I will have them make sure their Chapter journal document is complete on Google classroom and they will submit that.
We will complete vocabulary words. Vocab folders will be turned in on Friday for points.
We will review and the final test will be on Friday.

Our class project for this book is to create a digital newspaper/magazine.  We will begin learning about writing news articles this week, and then will compile the articles into a magazine next week.  We hope to be able to share the link with you so that you can read our magazine.

5th grade social studies:  I will collect student workbooks tomorrow.  Students were working on an assignment that was given on Thursday.
We have begun preparing for our Loyalist/Patriot debate.  We will hold the debate next week.  I will send out the date and time this week.  Students are divided into groups representing 6 Colonists.  3 are Loyalists, 3 are Patriots.  We will take this week to research the characters and prepare our questions and arguments, and then each class will hold a debate.  Some students will be dressing in costume, and so we hope to have that all settled this week.
**Remember any test corrections must be signed by parents, list where the information was located and turned in by this Friday, March 4th.

6th Grade Literature:   We are almost done viewing the book reports.  We will finish this week.  I am grading the essays, and once both are complete, students will receive a grade card with the breakdown of the grade and final.
We will finish Number the Stars this week.  Students had 3 chapters to read over the weekend and questions to answer.  We will finish vocabulary in class this week.  Folders will be turned in for points.  
We will review for the test.  6Caciano will take the final test on Friday, March 4.  6Hieber will take the final test Monday, March 7.
We will continue to work on research and begin the final steps on our presentations.  By the end of the week I will have a good idea of when presentations will be complete and will let you know when we are presenting.

We have lots going on this week.  It should be a wonderful week, full of great learning!
Have a blessed week,
Mrs. Brown