Look Ahead Update

We are not able to do a Science test, or a Spelling test on Friday. The electricity review for the test will be your last Science grade. The poetry spelling test is just canceled.
We will continue learning with experiments, reading shares, our time line, and end of year baseline tests. 
:) Lucky Ducky

A Look Ahead 5-18

Casto’s Look Ahead 18-22

This will be our last look ahead for the year. It has been my privilege to teach you this year. I have learned so much from you, and about you. How I wish I could keep you. :) Have a Wonderful and safe summer vacation.

Spelling/Vocab. From Poetry

1. allusion
2. free verse
3. imagery
4. symbol
5. personification
6. hyperbole
7. metaphor
8. simile
9. refrain
10. repetition
11. onomatopoeia
12. alliteration
13. meter
14. rhythm
15. rhyme 
    
    We will do our end of year baselines for Reading, Math, and Writing.

Reading: A.R Ends Friday!  Please be sure to finish any books you are reading, and take the test by Friday. Remember that A.R is a big percentage of your grade worth 200 points.

We will continue with poetry this week. We will do inkblot poetry, guessing poetry squares, and poem tellers connected to S.S

Math: We will have our test on Chapter 13, Wednesday. After the test, we will review with fun games.

Social Studies: We will make a visual timeline of West Virginia this week. It is a group mini project.

Science: We will finish electricity this week and will take the test on Friday.

A Look Ahead 5-11

Casto’s Look Ahead 5-11

Spelling:

We will not have a test this week. I want you to spend the extra time to be prepared for the Science Fair on Wednesday. Your project must be at school on Tuesday.

Reading: Your individual book report is due Monday.

We begin poetry this week. Art goes right into poetry. The last spelling/vocab. test you will take will be on terms that you will learn and use this week.

Math: We will finish chapter 13 on Decimals this week. I hope to have the test by Friday. We will be moving fairly quickly. You will find the homework connection in your workbooks from pages 153-163. The plan is to cover two lessons a day.

Science: Make sure to have your Science Fair projects ready to bring to school on Tuesday. The fair is Wednesday.  We will trace the path of an electric current through a closed circuit, make a closed circuit, and test insulators and conductors, and series circuit.

Social Studies: We got a little sidetracked with coal and cookie coal mining, so this week we are going to focus back on the changes in transportation, jobs, and tourism over the last few hundred years in West Virginia.  

New Potter Site

For all my Potter students...enjoy.
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html

Also, do not forget about  https://www.pottermore.com/en-us/

How Coal Becomes Electricity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_CcrgKLyzc
Coal to Electricity

A Look Ahead 5-3

Casto’s A Look Ahead 5-4-15

Spelling/Vocab

1. circuit
2. obscure
3. descended
4. profound
5. foundry
6. grotesque
7. aghast
8. writhed
9. ominously
10. rubbish

Reading:

This may be our final week for our Lit. groups. I know you are all on the brink of finishing, however if we need to move into next week we will. You will need to have your individual book report by the 15. Remember that you can do a traditional written report, or a creative report as long as all five story elements are included. This week we will make a large version of the story elements mountain. I am sure you will encounter the climax of your books very soon. When we finish Lit. groups, we will go into one of my most favorite areas to teach...poetry. :)

Math: Our Chapter 12 practice test on division will be Monday, and the test is planned for Tuesday. We will move into Chapter 13 on decimals Wednesday, if all goes according to plan.

Social Studies: You will finish up your in class mini-report on you choice from chapter 11, and present it orally. On Tuesday, we will move over to our West Virginia books. We will use chapter 8-11 among other resources to compare West Virginia’s population, products, resources, and transportation over the last 200 years.

Science: We will get into our new booklets on electricity. This week we will identify sources of electricity and  you will learn our electricity is used. We will open and close circuits, find the best conductors and insulators, as well as examine a incandescent light bulb.  We will have many little labs over the next two weeks. :)

Cheyenne Odyssey GAME

http://www.mission-us.org/pages/landing-mission-3