Feb. 17-21, 2014

Pictures from our Diversity Assembly

"SWAT" that Direct Object:

Making English lessons FUN!!!

Coming up next:

Dates:

Fri., Feb. 14th-Valentine's Day Party 1:30PM (bring your Valentine cards)
Mon., Feb. 17th-No School-President's Day
Fri., Feb. 28th-No School-Institute Day

Spelling: Lesson 18 :

Lesson 18 is next!

Pretest on Monday!

Homework due on Thurs.

Test will be Friday!

English: Unit 3-Verbs

This week we started talking about action verbs.  Next week we will cover lessons 2-4.

Lesson 1-Action Verbs
Lesson 2-Direct Objects
Lesson 3-Main Verbs and Helping Verbs
Lesson 4-Linking Verbs
Lesson 5-Present Tense
Lesson 6-Past Tense
Lesson 7-Future Tense
Test 1

Lesson 8-Subject-Verb Agreement
Lesson 9-Agreement with be and have
Lesson 10-Contractions with NOT
Lesson 11-Regular and Irregular Verbs
Lesson 12-More Irregular Verbs
Lesson 13-Verb Phrases with HAVE
Lesson 14-when to use teach, learn; let, leave
Lesson 15-when to use sit, set; can, may
Test 2

Reading: Historical Fiction Novels

Historical Fiction unit:

Week of Feb. 3-7

Reading assignment and homework will be from Day 1 and Day 2.

Week of Feb. 10-14

Monday-Thursday we will do Day 3-6 assignments.

HOMEWORK-due Tues., 2/18-Use this link to complete Day 6 homework for reading, instead of the sheet in their packet.

https://docs.google.com/a/ccsd66.org/forms/d/1s9sbfSRbD1nPz9q5QgOkBoPce-0nEk6d9f_jwuM4dZk/viewform

Week of Feb. 17-21Tuesday-Thursday we will do Day 7-9 assignments.

Week of Feb. 24-28
Monday and Tuesday will be Day 10 and 11 reading assignments.
Begin final projects!

Please have your child share their reading "role" with you at home, each night.  Ask them questions about the book they are reading and have them retell you what they have read, so far:) ENJOY!

Social Studies: Chapter 7-

Next, we will start chapter 7-"The Fight for a Continent".   

We will learn about:

Lesson 1-New Mexico-The Pueblo leader Pope' leads a revolt against the Spanish

Lesson 2:  New Orleans-The French establish a port city near the mouth of the Mississippi

Lesson 3 :Fort Necessity-George Washington's troops lose a battle to French soldiers

There will be a quiz after each lesson!!!

Science: Ch. 1-Weather

We will learn about weather next!  What do you know about thermometers, temperature, air pressure, fronts, sea breezes, land breezes, etc.???  We will learn many "cool" facts in this next chapter!
Learn about weather at home at:

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: 

We will start Ch. 6 on Monday.  This chapter is about multiplying and dividing decimals!

CH. 6-DECIMALS----

Chapter 5-: Multiply and Divide Decimals

Common Core State Standards:

5.NBT.2-Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10.  Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10.

5.NBT.4:  Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place.

5.NBT.5: Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.

5.NBT.7:  Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

Week of Feb. 10th
Lesson 1-Estimate products of whole numbers and decimals
Lesson 2-Hands-on: Use models to multiply
Lesson 3-Multiply decimals by whole numbers

Week of Feb. 17

Lesson 4-Hands-on: use models to multiply decimals
Lesson 5-Multiply decimals
Quiz
Lesson 6-Multiply decimals by powers of 10

Week of March 3rd

Lesson 7-Problem Solving-look for a pattern
TEST