WOW-It's February already!!! Feb.2-6, 2015

 Thanks for making my birthday special, this week!!!

5th Grade Spelling Bee

 Reading Unit-Nature's Fury-Our Gallery Walk

 More learning:  Tsunamis

A big THANK YOU to the parents and students who sent in items of food for our "food basket" and "goodies" for our "goody basket."

Thanks for being AWESOME!!!

Coming up next:

Dates:

Tues., Feb. 3-Book Projects are due

Week of Feb. 9th-Parent/Teacher/Student conferences--PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHILD ATTEND MY CONFERENCE,...THANKS!

Thurs., Feb. 12- Valentine Day Party 1:30
Fri., Feb. 13-No School

ELA-Spelling: L. 7 Wordly Wise

Packet of pages due throughout week and there is a vocabularty test on Friday.

  

ELA-Language Arts-Nouns

Unit 2-Nouns
This is a review for most students, so we will be doing many writing application assignements to review the skills.

ELA-Nature's Fury
We have been introduced to our essential questions for this unit.  
*How can a force of nature that is so far away affect me?
*How can force of nature be both destructive and constructive at the same time?
*What are forces of nature?

Social Studies: Chapter 6:Life in the English Colonies
In Chapter 6 we will study about:
Lesson 1:  Working and Trading in the English Colonies
Lesson 2:  Citites, Towns and Farms
Lesson 3: Everyday Life in the Colonies
Lesson 4: Slavery in the Colonies

Science: Ch. 15-Energy

Lesson 1-Kinetic and Potential Energy

Lesson 2-Forms of Energy

Lesson 3-People and how they use energy sources.

TEST on Chapter 15-Wednesday, Feb. 4th!

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Chapter 3-Division

Lesson 1-Relate Division to Multiplication-Fact Families
Lesson 2-  2 Digit Dividends
Lesson 4-Division Patterns
Lesson 5-Estimating Quotients
Lesson 8-Divide 3-and 4-Digit Dividends
Lesson 9-Place the First Digit
Lesson 10-Quotients with Zeros
Lesson 12-Interpret the Remainder

Jan. 26-30, 2015

Trade Fair 2015

Please sign up for a conference, if you feel it is necessary.

Thanks!

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Coming up next:

Dates:

Week of Feb.9th-Conferences

Thurs., Feb. 12- Valentine Day Party 1:30

ELA-Spelling: L. 21

Work due on Thursday.

Test on Friday.

ELA-Reading:Nature's Fury's

We will begin our next unit, called Nature's Fury's.  We will begin with a "gallery walk" of events that will spark some conversation about natural disasters.  Ask your child about this activity next week.

Social Studies: Chapter 6:Life in the English Colonies

In Chapter 6 we will study about:

Lesson 1:  Working and Trading in the English Colonies

Lesson 2:  Cities, Towns and Farms

Lesson 3: Everyday Life in the Colonies

Lesson 4: Slavery in the Colonies

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 are aiming to have the Test on Thursday, Jan. 29th!

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Division

Long division is next!