april 23-29

This week in science: we will be practicing for our C.R.T. tests the following week. Electricity unit science test will be May 3, 2012.

this week in Social studies: We will be doing only makeup CRT testing this week. Next week April 30th to May 4 students will be taking the science CRT test. This week in social studies we will continue to study the Civil War. Social studies vocabulary quiz will be Friday, April 27th. here are the words https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5AXrOzbjjbk6s97hs8rkcgSHRd-epgiJQBGULCY1nI/edit Remember to keep working on State Reports Essays Due may 1st Whole report Due May 13th
 English

I must compliment the chef who cooked up these great Kids! The students have been working on their History Essay for their state reports. They are coming along wonderfully! I am impressed with the students’ efforts to take notes about the state’s history and then in their own words write the essay. Again I am very impressed with all the students. As a student reading information, understanding the context and then putting it together in a unique way is not a skill I had as an 11-year old 5th grader. (Shhh, don’t let the students know that.) History Essays will be finished Wednesday April 25th. Students who were not able to finish their essay will be given extra time at school to complete the assignment. Unfortunately, that time is recesses. I have not been sending essays home to finish as homework because they can be a family burden, and the chances of all that work, blood, sweat and tears (mostly mine) getting lost is too great. I have found helping students finish during recess is easier on everyone. If you would like to help your student finish their essay at home, jot me a note and I will let your child finish at home. The next essay students are writing is about three interesting places to visit in the state. This piece will be informative and persuasive. Students do really well with persuasive writing, so I am anticipating many kids will reach 30 points on utahwrite. Keep up the great work
 Sincerely, m.thomson


This week in math
 we will be attempting to finish 2 utips tests.  We will review them in class the day before we take them. The first test is the CRT pretest and the second  will be the CRT review.  We are preparing for the test we will take in 3 weeks.  The are no tests this week but next week will be the CRT Science tests.  We will also be finishing and handing in the Brain Pop papers we have been working on the last couple of weeks.  The fifth graders have also started working on the Algebra section in Larson's Math.  Handwriting was postponed last week because of testing and an assembly from the Utah Opera Company. We will hand in #19 and work on # 20 this week.