Feb.24-28, 2014

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Language-Arts Activity and 

from our Literature Circles

Coming up next:

Dates:

Fri., Feb. 28th-No School-Institute Day
ISAT tests:  
Tues., March 4-Math Test 1
Wed., March 5-Reading Test 1 and Math Test 2
Thurs., March 6-Reading Test 2
Fri., March 7-Math Test 3
Mon., March 10-Reading Test 3
Mon., March 10-Conference Week
Thurs., March 13-End of Trimester 2
Mon., March 17-No School-Conferences
Tues., March 18-No School-Teacher Work Day
Fri., March 28-Naperville Settlement Field Trip for 5th grade
Mon., March 31-Fri., April 4-No School-Spring Break

Spelling: Lesson 20 :

Lesson 20 is next!

Pretest on Monday!

Homework due on Thurs. WB pages 20-21-22-in Volume 2 book

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
Lesson 8-Subject-Verb Agreement
Test 1-Tues., March 4th!!!


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. 24-28
Monday and Tuesday will be Day 10 and 11 reading assignments.
We will be creating a "Cereal Box" book report in school.  The students will be working with a partner on this final project.  We will be using the googledoc to record our information before we print it for our boxes.  The students will be able to work with their partner from home and edit their work on the computer.

***Please send in a cereal box before next Thurs., Feb. 27th, if you haven't done so.  Thanks!!!

Social Studies: Chapter 7-

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 and the Water Cycle

Lesson 1-What Causes Weather?
Lesson 2-What Conditions Affect the Water Cycle?
Lesson 3-How Can Patterns in Weather Be Observed?

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