This week a few very exciting things are happening in 5th at Blue Star!!

*Literature circles will begin this week.
Each student was placed in a reading group and given the choice of a few books. Each day students will decide how many pages to read and will complete an assigned job. During reading time the groups will meet an discuss their reading from the previous day.

*Newspaper Story continues.
In class we are reading a newspaper novel. Each week I get 30 newspapers with the newest chapter of the book! The Kalamazoo Gazette has graciously given us these newspapers free of charge! After literature circles students will read the chapter for the given week and complete an activity sheet. This will be a week long task due each Monday. Students will need to be responsible for completing and keeping track of the activity sheet until Monday.

*Biography Project.
We are currently work on a time line. This is a joint project with tech. Students have written the time line and will now create a computer generated time line.

*New Biography Project.
Keep an eye out for a new project coming home sometime this week or next week!

Miss Iehl will begin teaching a geography unit in Social Studies at the end of this week!