Monday, April 2, 2018

Week of April 3-6

I pray your family had a blessed Easter.
This is our last short week of the year!  However, we will be very busy from here to the end.  We have a lot of material left to cover and skills to prepare students to move on to the next grade level.
Encourage your child to be diligent in completing their work to the best of their abilities, especially when the weather begins to turn nice and outdoor spring activities pick up.

Even though it is April, we are continuing our March Madness Tournament of books.  Most students have already completed at least one of the required books and are now reading others for bonus points.
We will move the bracket for the first time this week.  Students may still read any of the books in the tournament even if they do not progress in the winners bracket.
 **Thank you to those parents that have helped your child get one of these books online, at the library or by purchase.  It has been great to see their enthusiasm with reading!

5th Grade Assignments this week:
Due Tuesday - Spelling assignment creating fill in the blank sentences. It is on Google classroom and was assigned last week Thursday.
Correcting sentences Assigned Wednesday - due Thursday
Thursday - Spelling test (class words are posted on this blog under English/Spelling).
Friday - Final typed draft of Fantasy Story on Google classroom English

We will be reviewing for Achievement tests this week.

5th Grade Language Arts: Literature:  We are finishing up our Fairy tale comparison unit this week. Students that did not complete the required books, will be finishing them during recess time.
We plan to move on and spend some time on Poetry in both reading and writing.
We will end the year with a final Book club book.  We will begin that the week after testing.

Spelling/Grammar: This week is test week over the words chosen.  Please look over the words with your child.  Many students are not looking over the words and scoring in the "C" range or below on the word tests.
We will be editing stories and then will move back into some grammar skills fourth quarter.  We will do a combination of grammar skills and writing for the remainder of the quarter, once our Fantasy stories are complete.

Writing:  This week we are taking our drafts which we have been revising and typing them into Google Classroom.  Some stories are very long, and students may need to type some at home in order to have it completed by Friday.  We will then begin the editing process.  Finally we will print, and illustrate these stories.  We will have an author share day hopefully in about 3 weeks.

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6th Grade Literature: We are on the last portion of our Holocaust unit.  Students have been broken into groups and are doing some research on a specific topic that we addressed in the reading of Number the Stars.  They will be creating a visual project of their findings.  These will hang in the hallway hopefully by the end of this week or early next week.
**We have a possibility of attending a very special field trip with this unit.  Ms. Stearns and I will let you know the details as soon as we find out.  We will need parents helpers to go along.  It is tentatively set for Thursday, April 12th in the afternoon.

We will then quickly move into our Legends and Myths unit.  We will do a couple weeks of classwork together.  We will end the year with one last Book club reading a fantasy, mystery or science fiction book.

Blessings on the week ahead,
Mrs. Brown


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