Happy Mother's Day!!
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Miss Trefonas's Homeroom:
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Some special events this week:
~Monday, May 11th = Spring Concert
~Tuesday, May 12th = "Staley the Bear" assembly during school
~Thursday, May 14th = Fifth grade gets to go to Lakeview to see the dress rehearsal of the musical!
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Social Studies: Chapter 12 "Times of Change"
We will be covering Lesson 1 "U.S. Turns 50" and Lesson 2 "A New Kind of Revolution"
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Science: We are working on a research project "This Place is a Zoo".
This project incorporates students researching facts about animals and their habitats.
We spent time in the computer lab doing research last week.
ALL RESEARCH IS DUE MONDAY!
Next, we begin the sign and poster in class.
The entire project's anticipated due date is Monday, May 18th.
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**Many students have had late work this month. Please remember that 25% is taken off for work that is 1 day late. We are following the policy that Lakeview uses.
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Miss Trefonas's Reading - English - Spelling:
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Spelling= We are beginning our "Words of the Week" spelling ABC book and tests.
This week the students will be responsible for "Words of the Week" A - I on their Words of the Week spelling list.
Letters A -I in their ABC book will be due Thursday.
Letters A -I test is Friday.
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English=Unit 7 Adverb test is Wednesday.
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Writing = Narratives! We are beginning with a creative writing story where the student has to develop a story based on a character, plot, and setting picked from a bag! There will be some interesting stories developed because of what was on the slip picked!
Creative writing story is due Monday!
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Reading= Jacob's Rescue which is a historical fiction novel that is based on World War II and the Holocaust.
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SCOOPer Reading = Due this Friday, May 15th.
There are many students who are behind and there are no exceptions to turning in only one book activity at a time.
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Vocab Club = May words due by the end of the month.
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Miss Trefonas's Math Class:
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Chapter 24 - Area of squares, rectangles, triangles, parallelograms......
Chapter 24 test = Weds. May 13th.
