March 17-21

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

No school for students on Tuesday. 
It's the end of the 3rd quarter this Friday- wow!! 
Spring Break is just around the corner; if you have plans to travel before break, please let me know so I can plan accordingly. 

5H Math: 

Students will get their Unit 7 tests back on Monday and we will start unit 8. Please check your email for a list of standards. We will start this week by learning how to multiply fractions by whole numbers using an area model. Later in the week we will learn how to multiply fractions by fractions, also using an area model. 

Language Arts: 

This week we'll start a new creative writing piece a "picture book mash-up". It will require kids to work together to "mash-up" the best components from 2 picture books to create a new story. Kids will choose a picture book from the LMC and think about how to best mash-up the story elements (characters, setting, and plot). Kids will also illustrate their picture book creation. We will start in the middle of the week and work on this until spring break. 

For reading/social studies this week we will continue to study the Constitution. We will finish analyzing the meaning of the Preamble and then spend a few days understanding the articles of the Constitution. 

Word Study:

Our next lesson focuses on consonants that work as silent letters; for example the "w" in the word "write". We will work with words that have the consonant teams of "wr", "rh", "gn", "kn", "gh", "mn", and "mb". Kids will brainstorm words that have these consonant teams and we will create our own list of words for the quiz. Kids will have their quiz Monday 3/24. 

Science:

The kids have worked so hard on their digestive system tech-projects; they look great! I think they'll remember the steps of the digestive system :). Tomorrow kids will help each other by evaluating a few of each others' projects with the rubric and then later this week, kids will get a chance to view other classmates' projects. 

This week, kids will learn about the different types of teeth and their functions. Kids will also learn what the 6 types of nutrients are, examples of each and what the different types of nutrients do for the body. We will also talk about the kids nutrition and how we can all make good choices to be more healthy...I know I should eat more vegetables :). Kids will learn how to read a food label and how to compare items based on nutritional information. 

Kids will get a double sided food log on Monday that they need to complete for homework and return on Thursday. They need to fill it out for two days (Monday and Tuesday or Tuesday and Wednesday). 

Kids will also need to bring in 2 food labels for an activity Wednesday. They need to make sure they know or have the name of the item the label came from.