Week of September 19-22

We have another short week this week.  However since it is Friday that we miss, it will not change our schedule or assignment pattern.

Highlights from last week!!
5th graders completed their awesome 3D Physical maps of the United States.  They are hanging in the hallway.  We ate the "leftovers" on Friday.
We can't put down reading Wonder!  We love it.  We will probably finish it in the next couple of weeks.
6th grade is really getting into The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.  The plot has thickened.  The suspense is killing us!

On to this week...

5th Grade Language Arts:
Spelling:  Pretest on Monday.  Pages 26-29 assigned and due on Thursday.  We had a few students not complete their pages last week.  We check in class on Wednesdays so they know if they need to bring it home. You may need to check as well.
Grammar: We are still plugging away at the 5th grade skills.  We carefully went over last week's proofreading page before turning it in and walked through the quiz together.  Each week, both of those papers are graded and handed back in class so we can look at them.  They should be coming home for you to see.  This week's proofreading page will be p. 28 assigned on Thursday on Google classroom.
Literature: Last week we did a journal, vocabulary and a quiz for Wonder.  All of those will be returned this week.  This week we will begin to think about the extended projects for this book.  We will discuss and develop our own "Choose Kind" campaign, and be looking at the precepts from the book.  There will be a writing assignment connected to the precepts and I will send a separate email when that happens.

5th Grade Social Studies:  We are transitioning into our chapters on Native Americans.  The theme for these chapters is discovering how location of different groups and the resources they had affected their way of life.  Our physical maps were a perfect starting point for this study.  This week each student will be creating their own Origin story on a large piece of material.  They have 2 assignments due on Monday.  1 being a rough sketch of their Origin story.  The other a chart of 3 vocabulary words.  Both are in the workbook.
Next week I will elaborate on the Great Native American Dig project we will be starting!

6th Grade Literature:  6th graders have a sketch of the Seahawk due this week, either Tuesday or Wednesday.  Now that we have discussed setting, we will move on to characters.  We will be taking notes on characters this week and begin a character analysis activity in groups.  These presentations will be due next week.  We will continue with vocabulary words in class and a journal will be assigned this week.

Thank you for sharing your children with me.  I look forward to a great week ahead.
Blessings,
Mrs. Brown