Week of October 17-21

First Quarter wraps up - Second Quarter begins...

I will be checking one last time on Monday with those students that still have missing work.  They have been notified and hopefully have checked Educate.  All missing work is due on Monday in order to be included in first quarter grades.


We will begin second quarter this week with a relatively normal schedule:

5th grade Language Arts:
Spelling:  I will be posting second quarter words on the blog under spelling.  This will be normal week in spelling beginning with the pretest tomorrow. 
Grammar:  We continue our study of nouns this week and will work on skill pages in class Tuesday and Wednesday. There will be a proofreading page on Thursday.   We did not do one last week because we were working on our Precept writings.

5th grade Literature:  We read a story from our Treasures book last week and completed online questions.  We will read another story this week. We are going to work in literature and Ed Tech to create some book trailers for Wonder.   We will use the ipads and work in groups.  We have looked on line at some.  I can't wait to see what they come up with.

5th Grade social studies:  The Great Native American Dig was awesome.  I tweeted some pictures of both classes.  I will post some more, and copy and display some in the hallway as well.  On Friday we observed and identified the artifacts found, and using our notes took an educated guess as to the tribe each group had discovered.  The last step is this week, where we will watch  each group's presentation and reveal the tribe that went which each box of artifacts.  
We will go on to chapters 4-5 on Explorers this week.

6th Grade Literature:
We are moving on this week!  We will read 1-2 stories from our Textbook and take some notes on Plot.  However, we will quickly move into our next set of novels.  I will be returning both the Charlotte Doyle book test and vocabulary test this week.  We will not do test corrections on this test.  Some students needed to study more for the vocabulary, however most did well.

Our next novel choices:  You may want to look them up on Common Sense Media.  The students will have an opportunity to look them over this week as well, before making choices on which one to read.
Wonder  by RJ Palacio
Because of Mr. Terrupt  by Rob Buyea
Walk Two Moons  by Sharon Creech
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town  by Kimberly Willis Holt
Stargirl  by Jerry Spinelli


Have a Blessed week!
Mrs. Brown