Week 9

This first quarter has flown by!!

In Writing: We finished up learning about similes and metaphors. We will spend the rest of the week learning about different words. Students will find three words from websites that I will share with them and they will look up the following: Why do they like the word so much? What is the word's etymology? When and where was it born? How has it evolved?

In Projects: We will introduce a new Project. Students will have to pick an important person from the Revolutionary war and research that person. We will have a wax museum at the end of this project where students will dress up like this person, write a speech, and memorize this speech for the Wax Museum. This presentation we will invite parents to. When it gets closer I will let you know of the date and time. Students will choose their important person the week after fall break.

4th Grade Writing: We will finish up our Evidence Based Paragraph. The rest of the week, we will all about idioms!

Reading: I finally have all students grouped. We will start working in our groups working on various strategies using Wonder Stories.

Spelling: We will no longer be giving Spelling tests in 5th grade. We feel that it is more beneficial for students to have to use the dictionary in their writing and have to really pay close attention to their Spelling all of the time, not just once a week. We feel that if they have to take the time in their writing to ensure they are spelling all words correctly rather than just memorizing them it will help them in the long run. The spelling pertains to all assignments, vocabulary, projects, reading,etc.

I hope everyone has a Fabulous Week!