Important Dates
Wednesday, March 20 – Lunch Bunch
Wednesday, March 20—Chick-fil-A Spirit Night
Wednesday, March 20 – Kids Care
Friday, March 22 – Field Day
Wednesday, March 27—Class Pictures
Grammar: We will continue our unit on Word Play which will include all context clues, prefixes, suffixes, root words, and multiple meaning words (like a vocabulary unit). We will have the test on Tuesday, March 19th.
Writing: We have finished learning about the three genres needed for 5th grade (narrative, informational, and opinion). So, we are now starting to review each genre by spending approximately two to three weeks on each genre, starting with narrative. We’ll continue reviewing Inform this week.
Reading: We will continue our unit on poetry. Students will learn the structural elements (stanzas, lines, rhyme scheme, and figurative language) and how to identify the story elements (POV, theme, and tone) in a poem. We’ll also be comparing and contrasting two poems and their topics/themes. There will be a class novel for this unit (Out of the Dust). The novel is written in free verse poetry, and it takes place during the dust bowl/Great Depression. We will review story elements and figurative language with this novel, as well as tie it into our Poetry unit. Today we read up to page 189. Students should be creating 2 HOTS questions for each section we read in the book. They will use those HOTS questions during book club discussions. For their March Book Logs, this class book can count for one of their two books. These will be due at the end of March with a parent signature. Students will have this in their binder. Students will need to read TWO 150-page books on their level.
Spelling: List 9 will be passed out this week. The quiz will be Thursday, March 28th. Their lists should stay in their binders through the school year. On this quiz, we will begin including 5 review words from past lists. Students will have 15 words from the current pattern, and 5 review words from a previous pattern. Remember to study both the spelling and the definitions. If you would like for your child to have extra practice with their spelling words, they may use Spelling City website: https://www.spellingcity.com/pratta.
Wednesday, March 20 – Lunch Bunch
Wednesday, March 20—Chick-fil-A Spirit Night
Wednesday, March 20 – Kids Care
Friday, March 22 – Field Day
Wednesday, March 27—Class Pictures
Grammar: We will continue our unit on Word Play which will include all context clues, prefixes, suffixes, root words, and multiple meaning words (like a vocabulary unit). We will have the test on Tuesday, March 19th.
Writing: We have finished learning about the three genres needed for 5th grade (narrative, informational, and opinion). So, we are now starting to review each genre by spending approximately two to three weeks on each genre, starting with narrative. We’ll continue reviewing Inform this week.
Reading: We will continue our unit on poetry. Students will learn the structural elements (stanzas, lines, rhyme scheme, and figurative language) and how to identify the story elements (POV, theme, and tone) in a poem. We’ll also be comparing and contrasting two poems and their topics/themes. There will be a class novel for this unit (Out of the Dust). The novel is written in free verse poetry, and it takes place during the dust bowl/Great Depression. We will review story elements and figurative language with this novel, as well as tie it into our Poetry unit. Today we read up to page 189. Students should be creating 2 HOTS questions for each section we read in the book. They will use those HOTS questions during book club discussions. For their March Book Logs, this class book can count for one of their two books. These will be due at the end of March with a parent signature. Students will have this in their binder. Students will need to read TWO 150-page books on their level.
Spelling: List 9 will be passed out this week. The quiz will be Thursday, March 28th. Their lists should stay in their binders through the school year. On this quiz, we will begin including 5 review words from past lists. Students will have 15 words from the current pattern, and 5 review words from a previous pattern. Remember to study both the spelling and the definitions. If you would like for your child to have extra practice with their spelling words, they may use Spelling City website: https://www.spellingcity.com/pratta.