Friday, December 5, 2014

Dec.8-12, 2014

W.I.N. Groups sharing responses





 Owl Pellet Dissection
















Coming up next:

Dates:
Wed., Dec. 10-Too Good For Drugs (T.G.F.D.'s) starts

Tues. Dec. 16-Early Dismissal

Wed. Dec. 17-5th Grade Bowling

Fri. Dec. 19th-Holiday Celebration at the Tivoli Theater

Mon. Dec. 22-Jan. 5-Winter Break--ENJOY!!!





ELA-Spelling: L. 14

Pretest-Monday

Homework due on Thursday

Test on Friday.





ELA-English: Chapter 1-"The Sentence"
Chapter 1-Discussions and Quizzes over the following concepts:

*Subjects in Imperatives
*Conjunctions
*Run-on Sentences



ELA-Reading: Challenges
We will continue to apply our essential questions on challenges to the next piece of text.  This piece of text comes from a chapter in our Touching Spirit Bear novels.  We will do a close read and focus on some vocabulary only from Ch. 6.


Social Studies: Chapter 5-The Struggle to Found Colonies

Lesson 1-1607-Jamestown-The first permanent English colony is started in North America.
Lesson 2-1609-Hudson River-Henry Hudson explores for the Dutch.
Lesson 3-1620-Plymouth-The Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower.
Lesson 4-1682-Philadelphia-Pennsylvania colony is founded.

TEST on chapter 5-Monday, Dec. 8th!




Science: Ch. 14-Energy


Lesson 1-Kinetic and Potential Energy

Lesson 2-Forms of Energy

Lesson 3-People and how they use energy sources.


We will be starting our unit on Energy.  We will incorporate some of

Com Ed's unit into our unit, stay tuned for some cool energy kits to

come home.



Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Chapter 2-!!
We have learned about:

Prime and Composite numbers
Divisibility Rules
Prime Factorization
Exponents
Multiplication Patterns
Partial Products
The Distributive Property
Estimating Products
Mult. by One-Digit Numbers
Mult. by Two-Digit Numbers


TEST Dec. 15th!


Spakausky's Scoop Oct. 16th

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