March 24-28, 2014

M & M Math 

and 

Fractions

Coming up next:

Dates:

Fri., March 28-Naperville Settlement Field Trip for 5th grade
Mon., March 31-Fri., April 4-No School-Spring Break
Mon., April 14-BOOK PROJECTS due-What is your child doing for their project???
Thurs., April 17th-Early Dismissal
Thurs., April 17th-TGFD's Graduation in gym 8:30AM--Save the Date!!!  Too Good For Drug 5th grade graduation will be in the gym on Thursday, April 17th from 8:30-9:30AM.  The students have learned a lot during this great TGFD's program.  Please come celebrate our promise to LIVE DRUG FREE!!!

Spelling:  Lesson 23

Lesson 23-WB pages 59-61 due on Thursday, 3/27!
Test on Friday, 3/28!

English: Unit 3-Verbs

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

Unit 3 on VERBS

Test 2-Lessons 9-15 will be on Friday, 3/28!

Reading:CHINA UNIT

We will do an extensive unit on China.  Our next unit will cover the topic of plagiarism vs paraphrasing.  This will help when we do our research project on China!

Does your child have anything to share on China?  Do they have any artifacts for our "museum?"  If so, have them bring them in.

Social Studies: Chapter 8-

Chapter 8-"The Road to War"

We will learn about:

Lesson 1-Trouble over Taxes  (British taxes led to greater cooperation among colonies and Patrick Henry was honest and spoke out against King George III and Britain)

Lesson 2-The Colonists Rebel  (Events in Boston brought Britain and the colonies closer to war.  George Watching learned about hard work, commitment, and leadership while working as a surveyor as a young man.  Primary sources can be used to study how people lived and how they felt about important events in their time).

Lesson 3-The Revolution Begins  (The American Revolution began with the battles at Lexington and Concord)

Science: Ch. 12---Oceans

We start learning about oceans after spring break!  If you want to look ahead and find out about the very interesting world of the ocean, take a look at the following websites:

Learn about weather at home at:

http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/

http://www.neok12.com/Oceans.htm

Bonus points:  Look at the websites above and write down 3-5 interesting facts that you DID NOT know about the ocean.  Turn it in after spring break, for your points!!!

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class:  CH. 8-- FRACTIONS----

Chapter 8: Fractions and Decimals

L. 1 Fractions and Division
L. 2 Greatest Common Factors (GCF)
L. 3 Simplest Form
L. 4 Problem-Solving: Guess, Check and Revise
L. 5 Least Common Multiple (LCM)
L. 6 Compare Fractions
L. 7 Models and Fractions
L. 8 Write Fractions as Decimals