SCIENCE (All 5th grade classes) August 22-26

INQUIRY SKILLS and THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

This week, students will complete 'investigations' and use their Science Journals to log their results. Science Journals are graded each week. Look for a grade summary sheet in their Friday Folder.

LANGUAGE ARTS August 22-26

SPEAK-UPS The students will be assigned to do a "Speak-Up" about My Summer Vacation. They will answer questions about their Summer and orally present their information on Tues., Aug. 23 and Wed. Aug. 24. The oral presentation doesn't need to memorized. They may use their worksheet.

GRAMMAR Punctuation and Grammar Rules Reviewed. Pages 10-13 will be worked on this week in class.

READING August 22-26

Animal Reading Contract On Monday, Aug. 22, students will be given the Animal Reading Contract packet. Look for it in the reading section of their binder. The first due date is this Friday, Aug. 26; students need to choose an "Animal" book to read.

Walk Two Moons Our class will begin reading this book together in class. Chapters 1-11 should be read by Monday, Aug. 29. Vocabulary words will be given to the students on Tuesday, Aug. 23.  They will define these words in class and study for VOCAB QUIZ on Monday, Aug. 29.

SPELLING August 22-26

Spelling Workbooks should be here soon. In the meantime, the students will be given photo-copied spelling pages for this week's lessons #6- #9. We will  complete these pages in class.

SPELLING TEST #2 on Friday, August 26.

MATH and SOCIAL STUDIES August 22-26

MATH Click on Mrs. Robinson's link at the upper right hand corner of my Blog Page.

SOCIAL STUDIES Click on Ms. Perrotta's link at the upper right hand corner of my Blog Page.