February 23rd, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Spirit Week continues tomorrow with Superhero Day

• Late Start tomorrow

• Word Masters Spelling Test on Friday

MATH

Barber:  Subtracting fractions with unlike denominators review and DPP’s.  

* STRAND 5 TEST ON WEDNESDAY

Brazier: Adding and Subtracting Fractions With Unlike Denominators

* STRAND 5 TEST ON FRIDAY

* STRAND 5 DPP DUE ON FRIDAY

Martinez: Review: “Parts and Wholes.”

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: “Readers pay close attention to descriptive passages.”

Brazier: “Readers notice key changes in a text.”  

Martinez: “Readers notice when time jumps back and forth.”

* HOMEWORK: Ask your fifth grader what their Book Club’s reading plan is.  Groups decide on what they read so your fifth grader may or may not have reading homework.

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber: “Opinion writers find evidence to prove their thinking.”

Brazier: “Opinion writers study other opinion texts.”

* ASK: “What do you know about the ways in which opinion texts usually unfold?”

Martinez: “Opinion writers have general reasons.”

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  

Chapter 10.5 & 10.6 Wrap up the Stamp Act and read the Boston Massacre.

         

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)

* WORD MASTERS SPELLING TEST ON FRIDAY (The 25 Word Masters words appear at the bottom of today’s blog entry.)

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)

Labeled and colored a diagram of the heart.  Found resting and active heart rate.  Circulatory System Video. (Martinez class only)

THE 25 WORD MASTERS WORDS:

1. lure

2. carom

3. famished

4. decoy

5. gorge

6. ingenious

7. glance

8. ricochet

9. balmy

10. zephyr

11. augment

12. placid

13. cyclone

14. relent

15. shrewd

16. crane

17. quaff

18. mottled

19. trough

20. amplify

21. tempestuous

22. crest

23. yield

24. torrential

25. gaze