Here is what we are learning this week:
Reader's & Writer's Workshop:
- February Literature Extension will be due on February 29.
- Keep filling out the reading logs for the Disney Acedemic Bowl.
- Writing: Daily Sentence Editing and letter writing.
- Review context clues, cause and effect, main idea, and inferencing through games.
- Students should be memorizing and practicing their speeches every night. Once a speech is approved then no changes can be made. Students already know this requirement. Click on this site as a reminder of this assignment: Night at the Museum
- Props, tip cans, and costumes may start coming in and all are due here by Thursday morning
- We are focusing on Data & Probability. Students are learning to collect and use data to create various types of graphs. We are connecting this with our weather unit.
- Students will be working individually to plan a survey, gather data and complete a graph. This project will be in place of a test grade. Students must survey 50 people by Wednesday. They will be doing most of the project during class time.
- We completed the KY3 Weather School Challenge! (We placed 22nd for Baker and 28th for Hughes out of 76...not bad for our first attempt!)
- Students will be working with teams to learn about severe weather and will be presenting their information to the class.
- We will not have a spelling test this week due to our Night at the Museum on Thursday!
- Qdoba Night Today!
- Fifth Grade Orchestra concert on Tuesday, February 28 at 7:00. This event is at Cherokee Middle School.
- Night at the Museum on Thursday, March 1st, 5:00 to 6:30. Please invite all your family and friends and encourage them to bring their change for tips.
Other Items of Interest:
Mrs. Baker & Mrs. Hughes
