Bill's Class

Hola,
Some upcoming announcements are as follows- Tonight we are having a family night to present our "Me projects." You can purchase a meal from Pat and Oscars for five dollars if you like. This Sunday we are having a carnival to raise money for the sixth grade camp and get students to come to our wonderful, tremendously awesome school.

For language arts we are prewriting our personal narratives. These are autobiographical narrative that tell about a conflict in our lives and how it was resolved. We have been adding synonym tools and voice boxes and thinking bubbles to add quotations and dialogue to our stories. We are just about to start writing our rough drafts. For vocabulary we are continuing to use our Wordly Wise. We acted out the words and completed the packets.

In math we are doing division with decimals and remainders. Multiplication and division are fact families so it really helps to know all the basic facts. We also worked on estimation also known as "rounding numbers.."

For our read aloud we just finished reading Holes. Now we are reading a book about the American Revolutionary War. The book is called My Brother Sam is Dead. We are currently on chapter 6. Sam has run off to war to fight the British soldiers with the American militia army.

For our History projects we are creating a timeline of the events leading up to the war. Each student is responsible for completing their paragraph on the event that they were assigned to. They also need to come up with a test question for our assessment. For our final project we are going to be acting out the events of the war. Be looking our you tube video of our production.