Mrs. Gartha's 5th Grade Blog

This is going to be a busy week. NWEA testing will continue on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Thursday evening, from 6-7:00 p.m., Oakman will be having Open House. Please set aside some time and come to our classroom and see what is happening. I’d love to meet you!

Today your child took his/her spelling test.  I wrote down the score on their assignment sheets.  If your child would like to retake that test, he/she may come to our class between 8 and 8:15 in the morning and retest.  Be sure that your child has studied at home beforehand.

Friday is a half-day. Students will be dismissed at 11:45.

 

Homework

Spelling– Write your words 3 times each in your spiral.

Read 20 minutes and write in your log.

This Week’s Objectives

Literacy

-The students will continue identifying reading strategies and explaining inferences found in text. We will also be finishing NWEA reading testing.

Writing

– The students will continue work on their narrative stories.  We will be focusing on revising and editing. By Friday, all stories should be published.

Science

-The students will be looking at chemical reactions and why they occur. We will continue investigating the particles found in the salt and vinegar mixture that was used to remove build up on pennies.

Social Studies

– The students are continuing to review the branches of government and their responsibilities as well as how a Bill is made into a law.

Math

-The students will be working on place value, exponents and metric system.

 

Spelling Words

restless

express

sentence

seven

expand

monkey

increase

speaker

decay

spectacular

defeat

succeed

hockey

concede

freezer

delete

disease