Week of April 18-22

WE made it through testing week!!  Overall the students did very well.  They worked hard on the tests and did their best.  We are grateful that it was nice outside and we were able to go out for fresh air in the afternoons.

This week we are back to our normal schedule and classes.  Just a reminder we are already at the half way point in fourth quarter and those last weeks go very quickly.  Make sure your child is up on all their work.  Those with missing work will be pulled from extra activities to complete what was due.

5th grade Language Arts:  Spelling this week is pages 174-177.  Pretest is Monday, pages and final test are Thursday.
Grammar pages are 173-177.  We have struggled a little bit with adverbs.  This week we will deal with double negatives.  There will be an assignment on Thursday that is due Friday.

Literature: Students are in groups by the novel that they are reading.  They will receive a calendar of assigned chapters and homework on Monday.  It will be both in printed form and shared on Google.  They should be reading the book at home.  You may read it with them.  Again, because of the timing, students that fall behind and do not complete their work, will be pulled from the group to work alone.

Social Studies:  We have 3 chapters left that we need to cover before our trip to Springfield in May.  The first two are on the Constitution, U.S. Government and the Bill of Rights.  They are very important, but we will move through them rather quickly.  There will be a chapter test on both of them.  One will be next week probably Wednesday.

6th Grade Literature:  We are finishing up our mythology unit.  Students this week will be assigned a partner project.  We will review for the unit test and take the test on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.  Students will receive a study guide to help them prepare.

We will then move into our final novel.  We are offering 6 novel choices.  Students will be assigned to one book to read along with a small group.  Pages will be assigned to read outside of class, so that the journals, quizzes, discussions and vocabulary can be done in class.
They will receive their books and assigned pages Wednesday/Thursday this week.

*Students must read the pages and be able to complete the assigned work.  If they fall behind, they may be removed from their group to work independently.

I am looking forward to receiving the Holocaust projects this week.  I will be submitting some to the Holocaust museum and some will travel with us on May 5th.

Miss Sell is doing a wonderful job working with the classes.  By next week she will be taking over most of the classroom teaching.  We work together on all the lessons she presents. She has brought some great new ideas to the units we have done.