Week of November 20th and November 27th

                                                                   

                                                                        

Important Dates:
November 17 End of Trimester
November 20- Scholastic book orders due
November 22-27 Thanksgiving Break

Reading:  We will finish up with the biography of Gloria Estefan.  There will be an open book quiz on Monday. The students will also be writing a newspaper article called "A Star with a Heart."  The following week  the students will be introduced to the world of mythology.  The first myth they will read is The Myth of Hercules. They will compare and contrast their views of a hero and evaluate whether or not they feel that Hercules has the traits to consider him a hero.

English:  We will continue to work on writing skills this week. The students have chosen a topic and are working on good leads to introduce their topic. We will then focus on sequential order and adding details to our writing.

Spelling:   No spelling this week. Unit 13  the following week will focus on Homographs. Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings. 

Social Studies: We will continue our study of the Southeast. We will learn how the Southeast is rich in different resources.  These resources are used in different industries throughout the region. The chapter 6 test is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, November 30th.

Science:  We will continue a unit on  Life Cycles of Plants and Animals.  We will learn the stages in a plants life cycle and how plants reproduce. The students will be creating a diagram of the Life Cycle of a Plant.

Mrs. Bucklin's Math Class:.   We will continue Unit 3, Module 2.  Students name fractional parts of the geoboard and describe the parts’relationships to one another. Their observations are then extended into comparing fractions with unlike numerators and denominators, and adding fractions with like denominators. There will be a checkpoint quiz on equivalent fractions on Wednesday, November, 29th.

Week of November 13th

Important Dates:
November 17 End of Trimester
November 22-27 Thanksgiving Break

Reading:  We will continue our Courage theme with the biography of Gloria Estefan. The students have been busy learning how to answer text dependent questions.  We have been focusing on how to turn the question around and support the evidence with information from the text. There will be an open book quiz on the story on Friday.

Time For Kids: The magazine will be sent home on Monday. There will be a quiz on Thursday.

English:  We will continue to work on writing skills this week.

Spelling:   Unit 12 - Homophones
 A homophone is a word that sounds like another word, but has a different spelling and meaning, for example,  bear and bare.  The final test for the homophone lesson will be on Friday, 11/17.

Social Studies: We will continue our study of the Southeast. We will  learn how the mild climates of the Southeast bring many tourists, but the area has some natural hazards. We will also read and learn how the Southeast is rich in different resources.  These resources are used in different industries throughout the region.

Science:  We will begin a new unit on  Life Cycles of Plants and Animals.  This week we will conduct an experiment to find out if seeds need light to sprout.  We will be placing radish seeds in damp sponges. One pan will be placed in the light and another in the dark. The students will write a hypothesis on whether the seeds will need light to sprout.

Mrs. Bucklin's Math Class:.   We will begin unit 3. The students will review fraction skills and concepts and extend their understandings to mixed numbers, improper fractions and more sophisticated strategies for generating equivalent fractions.

Week of November 6th

Important Dates:
November 17 End of Trimester

Kid with a Cape on the Go! - We've gotten some response from students with pictures of themselves spreading kindness. This initiative was the result of a visit from the author of A Girl with a Cape,  Amy Logan.  Her message to us was that WE ALL CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE by spreading kindness. Students can take a picture of  spreading kindness, with or without their "Kid with a Cape." A photo, drawing, or a written paragraph of the student and the event are alternative activities that can be turned in to the teacher. While this is optional, students have had fun posing with his/her "Kid!

Reading:  We will continue our close read of Gloria Estefan. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Thursday. The students should be reviewing their vocabulary slides and the Quizlet in Google Classroom. We will also work on Text Dependent Questions this week as we do our second read of the story.

Time For Kids: There will not be a quiz this week in Time For Kids.

English:  We will complete a unit on Capitalization and Punctuation. This week's focus will be on Titles and Quotation Marks. There will be a test on Friday.  The students will have a review sheet sent home on Wednesday. They also have the review they have been working on in Google Classroom.

Spelling:  Unit 11 will focus on the vowel letters e and i.  They can be combined in 2 ways: ie and ei.  Usually, ei has the long a sound and the ie has the long e sound.  The rule generally is "i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh. "  The students will also practice using the context of a sentence to understand the meanings of words. The test will be on Friday, November 10th.

Social Studies: The Southeast map quiz will be given on Tuesday.  We will then continue our study of the Southeast. We will learn about the major landforms in the Southeast.  We will then compare and contrast landform elevations. We will alsolearn how barrier islands are formed.

Mrs. Bucklin's Math Class:.   There will be a Unit 2 test on Thursday, November 9th. The students will be given a practice test on Monday to help prepare for the test. We will review on Tuesday and Wednesday.