Honors News 10/6/17

Here is the latest news in Honors!

BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS!!!! ixL.com is UP AND RUNNING! Yay!!!!!

4th Grade Reading

Phantom Tollbooth play was a success!!!! It was a fantastic adaptation of the book. After the play, we came back and had a picnic lunch in the classroom as well as a great discussion session. We discussed the story structure of the play as well as the main conflict of the play. Our final discussion topic revolved around perspective, our unit theme. We really discussed how Milo’s perspective changed throughout the book based on his experiences. Thank you to Mr. Sokol, Mrs. Tyree, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Vitaro, and Mrs. Orge for joining us and taking such good care of the students.

In reading, we are continuing our William & Mary unit with the theme of Perspective. We have been reading short stories, folktales, and poems and learning how to analyze them. Next week, we will be jumping into reading the Phantom Tollbooth novel. As we read, we will be reviewing story structure, conflicts, as well as focusing on our theme of perspective.

We are continuing our Latin & Greek stems. We have learned 18 stems, therefore, our second test will be on October 13th! Students can be using their flashcards that we make in class or my Quizlet account to practice those stems! Practice. Practice. Practice.

Lastly, the Reading Fair will be on Thursday, October 12th from 5-6pm at Sonoran Sky. Happy Reading! For the Reading Fair, your students needs to have:

1. Taken an AR quiz on their book
2. Written a 3 paragraph summary and uploaded it to Google Classroom
3. Created a trifold following the instructions in the reading fair packet.

5th Grade Reading- In reading, we have jumped into our literature circles novel projects. Students had their first literature discussions this week. We are using our novels to focus on our unit theme of cyclic patterns of change. We continue to review genres, types of conflict, and characters while reading our novels.

We are also working on our 4 Level grammar sentences that tie in with Caesar’s English stems. We have covered Level 1 which are the 8 parts of speech. Students had their first quiz over Level 1 today. Next week, we will begin learning Level 2 which is parts of a sentence including subject, predicates, direct objects, and indirect objects.

Lastly, the Reading Fair will be on Thursday, October 12th from 5-6pm at Sonoran Sky. Happy Reading! For the Reading Fair, your students needs to have:

1. Taken an AR quiz on their book
2. Written a 3 paragraph summary and uploaded it to Google Classroom
3. Created a trifold following the instructions in the reading fair packet.

5th Grade Math- In Math, we are halfway done with our second chapter covering multiplication and division of fractions. On the last Mid Chapter Check up, some students were struggling with estimating products of fractions. I have sent home some extra practice sheets to help students if they need it. Our test over Ch. 4 will be on Wednesday, October 11th. Students can always access ixl.com to help practice or review. Don’t forget about the Math Quarterly Project due this MONDAY, October 9th!