Week of May 7-11

READING
This week, we will be working on STAAR like reviews using anchor stations, question stems, and games.  We will continue to increase our independent reading time to support our stamina for the STAAR test as well.  We are encouraging our students to continue to read at home every evening for at least 30 minutes if not more.  Thank you for all your support this year with their Reading Logs.  Many students have shared how they have discovered "new" genres through our reading logs.  This is always great news to hear!!

HOMEWORK
Read Works: Where Does Your Food Come From: read article and answer questions
Vocabulary: Unit 15: Synonyms, Antonyms, & Completing the Sentence

Both are due Friday, May 11th

SOCIAL STUDIES

This week, we will be finishing up our unit on Southeast Asia.  The remaining topics we will be covering are Singapore's Growth and Malaysia and New Media. We will have an open book test on Southeast Asia on Thursday, May 10th.

WRITING/GRAMMAR

This week in grammar, we will work with run-on sentences.  We will learn three ways to correct run-ons.

Last week, we started writing our memoir's.  On Tuesday, we will edit and revise our papers and begin our final drafts.  On Thursday, we will finish the final draft.  Memoir's will be due at the end of the period Thursday, May 10th.