Religion:     We work in groups to construct posters of the various Jewish traditions compared to our Catholic Christian faith.  Each group will present these to the class.

Math: There are so many different ways to express fractions and decimals!  We have learned reducing, simplifying, writing in a different way, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.  Many of us are still having trouble with these and it is understandable!  Keep practicing and asking questions.  We learn about scale models this week as well as finding the least common multiple and writing mixed numbers as improper fractions.

Reading:  Be sure that I am prepared for my demonstration this week!  The Sign of the Beaver has been an interesting book about survival for Matt.  It is amazing how a person could live off the land so well long ago and didn't need to depend on things we have to today.  We are continuing to learn Indian words.  The novel should be completed by Thursday with a test on Friday. 

Spelling:  Our spelling words will be taken from our novel, The Sign of the Beaver.  Our test on the 3rd list will be Tuesday, May 13th.  Be sure to continue to study all 30 words--we will test on all words next week.

Science:  We test on Chapter C1 on Tuesday.  We then begin to explore renewable and nonrenewable resources that come from the Earth.

Social Studies:  Our MN History projects were very interesting to learn about!  Great work 5th graders!  We present our demonstrations this week.

English:  We have made it through all 8 parts of speech!  We will continue to review each part of speech and try our skills at diagramming sentences as we attempt to identify all parts of speech--what a challenge!

A quick note to let you know that most things at school have switched to my new name, Mrs. McCormick.  If you email me. please now use

Thanks to a few of you who have sent in items for our end of the year Auction!  You can send these items in anytime between now and Memorial Day.

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 Have a great week!  :)  Mrs. McCormick