Reminders: Social Studies - Students were given the Civil War ABC book project today. They will be creating a ABC book about the Civil War. Today they were shown examples and given directions. This project will be completed at home. Students will have 4 weeks to complete this assignment. The due date will be Monday, December 8, 2009. I also gave students some websites to do thier research. If you have any questions about the project, please don't hesitate to contact me. I will be meeting with ALP and absent students tomorrow to explain the project. Please review with your child multiplication facts - we have a 5 minute timed test every Friday. Knowing these facts are very important to suceeding in the fifth grade math curriculum. Mathematics: We currently on working dividing decimals by decimals (chapter 10). We will have our posttest on Monday, November 2, 2009. Students can use the pretest they took as a study guide - work through each problem to ensure understanding. We will then be moving to order of operations which is the second lesson in chapter 11. We will then continue with chapter four, which is on identifying and analyzing graphs. Social Studies: We will be having our test on chapter five - events leading up to the Civil War - students have their study guide and notebook to use as a source for studying. We will then continue with chapter six - The Nation at War. This week a project will be given in social studies on the Civil War - more information will be coming soon. Reading: We continue to work on reading comprehension strategies. We currently have been working on making connections. Next week we will be working on making inferences. Students are doing a great job with their reading logs. Spelling: Next week we will begin working on sort 11 - students should be bringing their words home on a daily basis to study. Grammar/Writing: We are currently working on verbs in our grammar workbook. We have also been working on descriptive writing. We will then move to writing a fantasy narrative, as we learn about story elements.