Week of April 18-21

I hope and pray that each of you had a blessed Holy Week and Easter celebration.  God is so good and gracious and Easter is such a wonderful celebration of his greatest gift to us.

Even though the week is shortened by a day, it will be a regular schedule this week.

Just a note about last week's presentations by both 5th and 6th grade.
Genius hour presentations were wonderful on Tuesday of last week.  Thank you to so many parents and friends that came to see them.  We were so impressed by the amount of information the students absorbed and could discuss.
Mr. Akerson and I will be working to put a piece of each project on video so we can keep them as examples and you can also access them.  Sometime this week, the projects should return home.

6th Grade Holocaust presentations were a good collection of work by the groups.  It was a difficult project, and most students did a great job researching and being able to present the information they had learned.  We had many classes from the middle school come down to see the projects.  It was a great learning experience.  They are on display in the upstairs hallway, and we will in some way incorporate them into our visit to the Jewish school next week.

5th Grade Language Arts:  Spelling: We will still have a unit this week on spelling.  The pretest will be Tuesday.  The pages are due and the final test will be on Friday.  Please check Educate.  Numerous students are not completing or turning in their spelling books and are not doing will in English because of it.
Pages this week are all 5, p. 174-178.
Grammar:  We are working on Adverbs and struggling a bit.  We redid the weekly assessment from two weeks ago, and those correction grades were just posted.  Some students struggled on last week's assessment as well.  We will skip proofreading again this week, in order to complete a review page on grammar that involves Fairy tales.  We will work on the other skill pages this week and take the assessment on Friday.

Literature:  We are finishing up fairy tales.  We will be presenting our partner fractured tales tomorrow.  We have worked on them for the past week and a half.  We are excited to read them.  We will be writing an individual tale as well, most likely starting at the end of this week.

We will do some work on the independent reading book this week. These assignments will be on Google classroom.  Then we will move on to one last novel.  There will be 4-5 choices in the class.  Students will choose 1 of the choices and read with a group.  We will work through a schedule when that is decided.  There will be journals, quizzes and discussions for the final novel.

5th grade social studies:  We are studying the Revolutionary war this chapter.  Last week we went through chapter 13 in class, and worked on the corresponding workbook pages.  The final 3 sections of the chapter and workbook were assigned on Wednesday and due tomorrow.  I will be collecting the workbooks and grading several pages.  The students chose a topic about the Revolutionary war and are working on a presentation about it.  It is a short slide presentation on Google.  The directions are posted on Google classroom.  It is due on Thursday.  They will work on it in class this week, but may have work to do at home.  Each student is working individually.


6th Grade LIterature: We are wrapping up our Holocaust study.  We have a few last things to accomplish.  We are planning on visiting the Jewish Community school next week Monday, April 24th.  I will send an email about it this week.  Grades for this unit will be based on each person's individual work within the group.

We will then do a quick unit on Mythology.  We will read 3 stories from our yellow Lit book.  There will be several Google classroom assignments on these stories.  We will do a comparison of Hercules stories with an assignment on Google.
We will also be reading one last novel.  It will be a fantasy, mystery or science fiction book.  I have numerous choices.  Students will need to choose a book that at least one other person in the class is reading.  There will be journals, discussions and possible quizzes on this novel to end the year.

Blessings on your week,
Mrs. Brown