Jan. 31st- Feb. 4th

Welcome to February the month of Friendship and love.

Important assignments for the week:

1. Our G.K Test 1 will be on Friday 4th. Study: Renaissance Architecture, Brunelleschi and Baroque Art.

2.Bring for Thursday 3rd the following pictures printed. REMEMBER THAT THE PICTURES SHOULD NOT BE BIGGER THAN 7X7cms. They need to fit in your notebook in order to be framed and labeled in class.

• The Piazza at St. Peter's Basilica
• Bernini's Baldachin from St. Peter's Basilica
• Fountain of the Four Rivers, Piaza Nova in Rome
• Portrait of Bernini

3. Our Spelling test 2 will be on Thursday 3rd. 10 words and 10 sentences.

4. Next Tuesday 8th , we will have our Reading and writing Test 1. Study: Commas, Meeting Mr. Henry, Missing Links and Dwaina Brooks, and a short paragraph will be dictated from the stories read.

Topics to be worked in class by areas:

Spelling

Spelling List 2. Writing coherent sentences and writing each word withh 100%accuracy will be the indicators to be evaluated.

1. am
2. is
3. was
4. were
5. become
6. became
7. seem
8. appear
9. feel
10. felt
11. taste
12. smell
13. look
14. unfortunate
15. advised
16. deliveries
17. donate
18. organized
19. fountain
20. obelisk

GRAMMAR

 We will start working with verbs during the term.

This week will be focused on Action and Linking Verbs            ( pages 92-95 will be done in class).

 READING AND WRITING

 We will read the story Dwaina Brooks from our Reading book pages 170-180

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 

We will start working with the Baroque Artist, Gianlorenzo Bernini and some of his most important masterpieces.

• The Piazza at St. Peter's Basilica
• Bernini's Baldachin from St. Peter's Basilica
• Fountain of the Four Rivers, Piaza Nova in Rome
• Portrait of Bernini

SCIENCE

We will continue working on Inheritance. "How do Scientist learn about Inheritance? Gregor Mendel. pages A60- A66

Watch this video, it will help you understand better the usage of Punnet Squares.

I hope that you find this information handy and helpful.

Have a wonderful week, 

Love,

Ms. Marinés Betancourt

Jan.24th - 28th

Finally, It is time to begin our II term. During this week we will finish our covers and start working on our different areas. 

Spelling

We will practice the spelling, meanings and sentences from the words of the list. These will be done in class.

Spelling List 1
1	sapphire	11	dominant gene
2	indicate	12	inherited
3	smudge	13	symbol
4	jewelry	14	distraction
5	counter	15	strangeness
6	gene	16	irregularity
7	hybrid	17	extravagance
8	mutation	18	dramatic
9	diagram	19	ornamented
10	recessive gene	20	illiterate

Our test will be on Thursday 27th as usual.

Grammar

We will have our first Grammar evaluation from the II term. Practice Plural Nouns ( regular and irregular) and Possessive Nouns. It will be on Friday 28th.

Interesting link: http://www.english-zone.com/spelling/plurals.html

Extra Practice:

General Knowledge

We will start working with Baroque, artists and masterpieces.

Glitterfy.com - Photo Flipbooks

Science

We will start working with genetics and inherintance  with the topic: How are traits passed along?
This video is just an introduction to the topic, I hope you enjoy it.
  

   

This video is also related to the topic, and it will be nice to watch it.
 Click : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWaeDviBHQ

Reading and Writing   

• The Story Missing Links will be introduced and read. Pages: 207-218
•  America's Most Wanted 5th Grader. Chapters 1 to 7.

ASSIGNMENTS 

1. Bring one printed picture that shows Baroque art. Thursday 27th.
2. Practice for our Grammar Test 1. Possessive Nouns, and Plural Nouns ( regular and irregular).Friday 28th.
3. Read chapters 1 to 7 from the book: America's Most Wanted 5th Grader.

I hope that we have a wonderful weekend and a great week!

Love,

Miss Marinés

Jan. 17th to 21st

Dear students,
We will keep working on our different areas during the week. These are the topics and assignments for this week.
Topics:
Grammar:  Possessive Nouns
Spelling: Practice at home the meanings and the spelling of each word.
We will have our Spelling test on Thursday 20th     ( 10 words & 10 meanings).

1	challenging	11	architecture
2	custodian	12	achievements
3	corridors	13	rival
4	cut	14	baptistery
5	valuable	15	arch
6	chromosomes	16	dome
7	fertilization	17	columns
8	offspring	18	mitosis
9	traits	19	stamen
10	pollination	20	pistil

Science: How do Organisms grow and Reproduce.
G.K: Filippo Brunelleschi, Renaissance Architect
Reading and Writing: Short Story: Meeting Mr. Henry, Using Commas.

Assignments:

• Bring a printed picture ( size 7x7 cm approximately) of architectural examples of an arch, a column and a dome, for next Thursday 20^th.

The Hospedale Degli Inonocenti and the picture of the Cathedral of Florence were asked for last week you should have them . GK

• Start Reading at Home Chapters 1 to 5 from the short story book of the term: AMERICA'S MOST WANTED FIFTH GRADERS. Reading
• Complete at home Exercise C from your Grammar and Writing book (page 87) . The exercise must be copied and done in your Grammar Notebook. for Friday 21^st.Grammar

 

Jan. 10th - 14th

Dear Students,

Welcome back! I hope that you've enjoyed the holidays. Our  Term evaluations have been cancelled due to the orders given by the Ministry of Education.

We will review previous topics , and also we'll keep working on  different areas in order to give a complete end to our Term I.

We will reinforce the following topics:

Grammar: Irregular Plural Nouns Pg 80- 81

G.K: Renaissance Architecture, Brunelleschi. 

Bring the following pictures  for Friday 14th.  

• Cathedral of Florence 
• The Foundling  Hospital (also known as Ospedale Degli Innocenti).

Let's get to work!   

Miss Marinés

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2011!

May God fill your homes with joy, peace, love, success and  prosperity.

We will begin our activities really soon. Enjoy these days, rest and don't forget to read and review the topics for the coming evaluations. See you soon,

Miss Marinés