5A NEWS

February 10-14, 2014

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important dates:
Wednesday, Feb. 12 Inventor Research Due Friday, February 7: Unit 7 Math Test Spelling Test (Exploding Ants) Monday-Wednesday Feb. 17-19: NR Field Trip Monday, Feb. 24: Assembly

Unit 7 test will be on Friday, February 14th. In Unit 7 students have learned terms, patterns, and notations for different expressions, negative numbers, and exponents. They also learned the order of operations for solving expressions, as well as adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. For more information check out the Everyday Math letter. We will continue with the flipped classroom. Students need to watch the lesson video at home and complete the quick check in order to be prepared for class the next day. If they cannot watch the video due to technical difficulty, they will be able to watch it during class.

Math: Unit 7 Exponents and Negative numbers

WEEKLY vocabulary
!Math Unit 7: Everyday Math Vocabulary Sheet !Spelling: Pattern: Homophones **Students will need to know the meaning for each word. !allowed, aloud, cent, scent, sent, chili, chilly, coarse, course, pail, pale, their, theyre, there, threw, through, tide, tied, weather, whether

We will continue literature circles with the whole 5th grade. Students are responsible for completing their reading and role sheet before each meeting. Meeting days are Wednesday and Friday. The reading skills of the week are Generalizing and predicting. The grammar skill is pronouns and antecedents. To connect our Science unit with reading and writing students will be reading some background texts on the invention process. Students will do an in class activity to demonstrate their understanding of the book.

Language arts:

Students will research a famous inventor. Students will fill out a graphic organizer with information they find during their research. We will work on writing expository pieces at the conclusion of research. Then students choose how they want to publish their writing pieces.

Science:

mrs. ks notes:
!The February Assembly has been changed to Monday the 24th. !The NR letter was sent home in Friday folders. Please make sure to return the medical form, a copy of your childs ID, and the money as soon as possible. ! 5A will be hosting the March Assembly on Monday, March 17th. The theme for the assembly is Be Wise, and we will be recognizing grandparents. !Please make sure you are checking the class website, it is a valuable resource for information and to see your childs work.