Saturday, August 13, 2011

SCIENCE (all 5th graders) Aug 15-19

Tuesday, August 16, will be our first day meeting for Science class. A pre-test will be given that day.

This week the students will have lessons on:
* Following directions
* Observation / Inference

All lesson activities will be completed in class.

HOMEWORK: none

LANGUAGE ARTS August 15-19

This week the students will complete a Writing pre-test.

The students will have lessons on:
*Sentences and sentence fragments
*Declarative and interrogative sentences
*Imperative and exclamatory sentences
*Compound sentences

Since we are waiting to assign lockers (shelving on back order), the students won't be assigned a Language Arts book at this time. Assignments will be completed in class.

HOMEWORK: none

READING August 15-19

This week the students will take a Reading pre-test.

The students will learn how to set-up a "Story Plot Line" (as shown in the 5th Grade letter that was sent home). This will be completed in class using short stories.

HOMEWORK: None this week. "Story Plot Line" activities completed in class.

SPELLING Aug 15-19

We will complete Lessons 1-4 together in class this week.
SPELLING TEST ON FRIDAY, Aug 19.
Normally, I won't list the spelling words on this page but since the students' workbooks are on back order, here's this week's spelling words:

1. mother                      13.  price
2. thought                     14.  guide
3. pointless                   15.  relate
4. matchless                 16.  workable
5. painful                     17.  restful
6. doubtful                   18.  misplace
7. returnable                19.  helpless
8. cover                        20.  sleepless
9. misspell                    21.  powerful
10. worthless                22.  quote
11. misjudge                 23.  sound
12. remove                   24.  portable
                                    25.  reason

HOMEWORK: Study spelling words each night.

MATH and SOCIAL STUDIES Assignments Aug 15-19

Visit Mrs. Robinson's Blog Page for MATH

Visit Ms. Perrotta's Blog Page for SOCIAL STUDIES
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