We had a wonderful day on Friday. It was great to welcome so many Grandparents and special friends. The kids loved having guests for the day. I hope it was a wonderful memory for your family.
We have a few weeks left of normal schedule, before the last few weeks of craziness set in. We have a lot to do in this time and so once again, encourage your student to continue working hard and keep up with all their assignments.
5th grade Language Arts: Spelling - normal schedule this week. We will be working on pages 180-183. We will have a pretest Monday and final test and pages on Thursday.
Grammar - also will follow a normal schedule with skill pages Tuesday and Wednesday and a proofreading assignment on Thursday, quiz on Friday.
Literature: We have begun reading our final novels. Students are in groups of about 5-6 to read 4 different novels. They should be reading their chapters outside of class. They are doing journals, vocabulary and this week quiz questions on the chapters in class. Keep checking Cornerstone to see if they missed any assignments.
There will be both a group project and an individual project to go with each book.
5th grade social studies: We are working on chapter 14, the writing of the Constitution. Students were assigned vocabulary words on Thursday that are due Monday. We will be reviewing tomorrow and then playing a Constitution game on Tuesday. We will take the Chapter 14 test on Wednesday, April 27.
It is not open note/book, students will need to study.
Chapter 15 is on The Bill of Rights and we will work in groups to study the Bill of Rights and find present day situations that still relate back to those amendments.
6th Grade Literature: We have divided into small groups, to read our last novels. We have 5-6 novels being read in each class. Students should do most of the reading outside of class. They are completing journals, vocabulary, discussions and this week quiz questions in class. There will be a final test and project for each book.
I have hung our Holocaust projects in the hallway. We had a few wonderful video productions as well. I will be deciding this week which projects will go to the Holocaust Museum for competition. I will take some pictures this week of the wall and post them on Twitter. Come see and read them if you can.
We will be travelling to the Saul Mirowitz Jewish School on Thursday, May 5th to end our Holocaust study and share what we have learned with students from this school. We did this last year and it was a wonderful experience. I will send a separate email this week with the details. We will be able to take several parents along that would like to attend.
Remember there is no formal 4th quarter book report, but each 5th and 6th grade student needs to give at least one book talk for points. They may give more for extra points.
Have a very blessed week!
Mrs. Brown
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