The week before break and beginning of Quarter 4

We are still wrapping up units from third quarter, but all work from this week will be part of fourth quarter grades.

This will be a busy and exciting week in many classes.  Check out upcoming events that will be posted in coming weeks.

5th Grade Language Arts:  Spelling:  We will have spelling as normal this week.  The pretest and pages will be Monday, with pages due and final test on Thursday.  Again, it will begin 4th quarter grades.
We will have regular grammar pages this week as well, however we will look to do more creative writing beginning after break.  Proofreading page 150 will be assigned on Thursday and the weekly assessment will be done Friday in class.  I prefer students not work on these ahead of time, because I often change the directions.

Literature:  We will wrap up Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe this week.  We will work on vocabulary.  It is done in class.  Students will be graded on their vocab folders and the work in class.  We will take a final test on the book but not vocabulary.  And at the end of the week we will watch the movie.  It is very well done, and follows the book closely, but it is not rated G.  Please email me if you prefer your child not view this movie at school.

Social Studies:  Our big debate is Tuesday!  Again, 5Brown will debate from 8:30-9:30 Tuesday morning.  5Akerson will debate from 12:45-1:45 Tuesday afternoon.  WE have worked diligently for over a week to prepare for the debate.  Please join us if you can!

6th Grade Literature:  We will continue with our Literature unit on the Holocaust.  This week we will complete vocabulary, and take a final book test.  We will begin our research Project based learning activity.  There is not a Number the Stars movie, but there is a movie that has a very similar story.  We will watch that at the end of the week.
All missing work was due on Friday.  Several students did finish the quarter with missing assignments.  We looked at Educate multiple times in order for students to take responsibility for what was missing.


I will be leaving Thursday morning with my daughter for a mission trip to Belize with Concordia.  Mrs. Albers will be subbing for me.  We will watch our literature movies those days, and she will be prepared for all activities.

Have a blessed week.  And I pray each of your families has a blessed Spring break week!  I hope you can rest and revive before we begin 4th quarter.  I will be unreachable in Belize beginning Thursday.

Mrs. Brown