Miss Spiegel

5th Grade Southwest

11
May 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 4:11 pm | 14 Comments »

Today we read about how plants make food.  They use carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to make sugar for energy.  Photosynthesis is the name for the process.
Homework
Reading- 20 minutes, Hatchet chapter 8, summary, vocab (motivated), title
Spelling- study words
Math- Review page 381  4-17
Science- worksheet
Social Studies- definitions due Wed., memorize/rewrite part 2, DOG quiz Tues.
Other- Monday folders, [...]

10
May 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 2:48 pm | 1 Comment »

Great job today finding the verbs, nouns, and adjectives in the sentences.  We did something called diagraming a sentence and many times you won’t do this until middle school or even high school.  Excellent!
Homework
Reading- 20 minutes, chapter 7 Hatchet- summary, title vocab (gingerly)
Spelling- study words, handwriting, mean,median, mode, range
Math- PW 90 algebra
English- corrections on adjectives [...]

5
May 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 2:41 pm | 1 Comment »

I hope all of you are enjoying your Keynote project over the novel Hatchet.  I know Brian is very lucky to be alive after surviving a plane crash into a lake.  What challenges will he now face I wonder?
Homework
Reading- 20 minutes, Hatchet chapter 4-5, title, summary, vocab (abated, stranded)
Spelling- study words
English- page 153-154 1-9, wkst.
Math- [...]

4
May 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 3:23 pm | 2 Comments »

Today we started growing our plants for when the anoles arrive in two weeks.  Each group made a blue print of where the seeds were planted, how many of each, and where the cricket house will be in the terrarium.
We also started our Hatchet Keynote project today.  The keynotes are looking sharp and well developed. [...]

30
Apr 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 2:46 pm | 3 Comments »

Our variety pack of eggs hatched with three slightly different colored chicks than the other two incubators.  Although we only had three hatch, they are very near and dear to our hearts.  I hope all of you have enjoyed learning about the chicks and holding them off and on all week.
A big congratulations on the [...]

27
Apr 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 5:03 pm | 2 Comments »

The chicks in Mrs. McCombs’ and Mrs. Faulkner’s class started hatching yesterday and more hatched today.  Tomorrow we will have our chicks start hatching and hopefully by Thursday we have most of them hatched.
Homework
Reading- 20 minutes, pages 86-88
Spelling- study words
English- page 130-131  35-66
Math- Set A, B, #’s 4-8, Set C, page 222
Science- work on science [...]

20
Apr 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 3:51 pm | 3 Comments »

Today we were able to candle the eggs in our incubator to see if there is a chick inside or not.  We looked at the shadow in the egg and the amount of light we could see through the egg.  Some eggs had very little light, others a lot of light.  We made our predictions [...]

19
Apr 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 2:47 pm | 1 Comment »

We are able to print from the color printer!  The new ink arrived today and we will be printing our information the next few days so you can put together your poster for the science fair next week.  I can’t wait until the science fair next week!  Can you?
Homework
Reading- 20 minutes
Spelling- study words, handwriting wkst
Science- [...]

14
Apr 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 2:43 pm | 6 Comments »

Did you know verbs can be regular or irregular?  To make a regular verb past tense add “ed” to the end.  If you have to change the spelling of the verb to make it past tense, it becomes an irregular verb.  For example, the verb take becomes took when it is past tense.
Homework
Reading- 20 minutes
Spelling- [...]

13
Apr 2010
Posted in Uncategorized by jspiegel at 3:34 pm | 2 Comments »

We started a lab today called “Where’s the Shell.”  We have an egg soaking in vinegar and an egg soaking in water.  What will happen to each egg in three days time?

Homework
Reading- 20 minutes
Spelling- study words
English- wkst
Math- chapter 13 test tomorrow
Social Studies- wkst. lesson 1
Science- work on science fair project
Other- wear tennis shoes tomorrow, bring [...]