9/26

Unit 1 math test Friday!

Finish spelling & vocabulary choices.

Finish sci. WB p. 34, 26-38 if you didn't finish in class.

Have you finished your cereal box?  IRA? DITB 8?  They're all due Friday!

Reading Goal Progress: 5 Books

Quiz on your 5th book tomorrow if you haven't already! Thanks!

9/25

*Purple folders will go home Wed. instead of today.  Sorry for the delay!

Don't forget that your cereal box project is due Friday!

Work on spelling & vocab. choices (due Thurs.)

*Unit 1 math test will be Friday.

Computer Lab 9/24

After your typing practice, you are going to check out the World Book Online.

You are going to select a topic of interest that you can learn more about in the online encyclopedia.  Before you begin your reading, you will start a K-W-L chart:

What I Know (K)          What I Want to Know (W)       What I Learned (L)

Complete the first two sections (K & W) before reading your article.

Fill in the last section after you finish reading.

On the back of your paper, create a main idea web with at least four supporting details.

This Week's Spelling & Vocab: Unit 2, Wk. 3

Unit 2, Week 3 Spelling and Vocabulary Lists            Story: Maya Lin Architect of Memory

Spelling: Inflected Endings

Copy words in agenda in ABC order (due Tuesday).

Complete a spelling choice activity (due Thursday).

Study nightly (M-Th) for the sp. test on Friday.

1. jogging                                                11. deserved

2. dripping                                                12. applied

3. skimmed                                          13. relied

4. raking                                                14. renewing

5. amusing                                                15. complicated

6. easing                                                16. qualified

7. regretted                                                17. threatening

8. forbidding                                              18. gnarled

9. referred                                            19. envied

10. injured                                                20. fascinated

Vocabulary:

Write the part of speech and definition from the glossary for each vocabulary word ON YOUR OWN PAPER.  Finish for HW if you didn’t finish in class (due Tuesday).

Complete a vocabulary choice activity (due Thursday).

Study each night, Monday – Thursday, for your test on Friday.

1.     dedicated (        ) –

2.     equality (         ) –

3.     artifacts (      ) –

4.     exhibits (       ) –

5.     site (       ) –

We will read the story Maya Lin Architect of Memory in class together on Tuesday. All students should re-read the story at home Tuesday night to prepare for comprehension work (on Wed.) and the story test on Friday.

IRA: Main Idea and Supporting Details

            Read an article of your choice (from the newspaper, a magazine, the World Book Online, etc.).  Create a main idea web with at least four supporting details.  (Please do not use the same topic that you used in computer lab on Monday.)

TESTED SKILL: Main Idea and Supporting Details

9/20

Several students did not turn in their vocabulary choice today.  They may turn it in late tomorrow with late points deducted or they may receive a zero.  It is frustrating when I type the info onto their spelling/vocabulary sheet, I write it on the agenda board, I go over it each day, and they still didn't do their work!  Please check your child's agenda carefully and monitor their work.  Thank you!

Many students have an AM exercise or practice to complete.  A few have corrections to make.

Finish IRA (1st or 3rd person and how you know).

Finish DITB 7.

Study spelling & vocabulary for tests!

Math Help

Some students are struggling in Successmaker Math because they are working above grade level on material that has yet to be taught.  Here are two excellent resources that will help you learn different math concepts through videos.  Most of them are not interactive, but seeing them may help.

Of course, you need to know the name of the concept, so see Mrs. Dyer if you don't know what to look up.

Math Playground: Click on the math videos tab (far right) to go to a list of video topics.  (Of course the games are fun, too, so Math Playground is also linked in the math websites tab at the top of the blog.)

Khan Academy: Scroll down to Math.  Most of our 5th grade topics will be found in the Arithmetic and Pre-Algebra section, though Geometry may also be helpful.  (You can also find the Khan Academy link at the top in "other websites.")

9/19

Study for tomorrow's Ch. 2 science test!

Finish spelling singular/plural list.
Finish vocabulary choice.

IRA and DITB 7 are due Friday.

9/18

Finish sci. WB p. 28-31 if you didn't finish in class.

Work on spelling HW (singular/plural) and start on vocab. choice.  Both are due Thurs.

Have you read at least four books?

*Please sign signed papers and permission slip!

Inventions!

In social studies, we are studying inventors and inventions of the late 19th/early 20th century.  Here are some short videos that I shared in class.

The Wright Brothers video

The Birth of Telecommunications (A. G. Bell) video

Carver and the Tuskegee Institute video

Thomas Edison video

Here's a fun cartoon about the Wright Brothers.  I'm not sure if we'll have time to watch it in class, but you might enjoy it at home.
Hysteria! History of Flight

9/17

Several students need to finish their AM and/or make corrections.

Finish vocabulary definitions if you didn't get them finished in class.

Write spelling words in agenda in ABC order.

Vocabulary choice due Thurs.
*This week's spelling HW isn't a choice, but rather students are to write both the singular and plural form of their spelling words (due Thurs.)

This week's IRA: point of view.  Please see spelling/vocab sheet or post, below, for details.

DITB 7 due Friday

This Week's Spelling, Vocab. and More

Unit 2, Week 2 Spelling and Vocabulary lists            Story: Rattlers!

Spelling: plural words

Copy words in agenda in ABC order (due Tuesday).

For this week’s spelling homework, you are to write the singular and the plural form of each word.  (No spelling choice this week!)

Study nightly (M-Th) for the sp. test on Friday.

1. rattlers                                                11. difficulties

2. fangs                                                12. batches

3. countries                                                13. abilities

4. liberties                                                14. lashes

5. potatoes                                                15. identities

6. rodeos                                                16. losses

7. taxes                                                17. possibilities

8. reptiles                                              18. notches

9. surroundings                                    19. zeroes

10. beliefs                                                20. eddies

Vocabulary:

Use your glossary to find and write the part of speech and definition for each vocabulary word ON YOUR OWN PAER.  Finish for HW (due Tuesday).

Complete a spelling choice activity (due Thursday).

Study each night, Monday – Thursday, for your test on Friday.

1.     species (        ) –

2.     survive (         ) –

3.     alert (      ) –

4.     vibrates (       ) –

5.     surroundings (       ) –

6.     prey (      ) –

7.     predators (      ) –

8.     lunging (      ) -

We will read the story Rattlers! in class together on Tuesday.  Please either read it independently Monday night before we read it or re-read the story at home Tuesday night to prepare for comprehension work (on Wed.) and the story test on Friday.

IRA: Point of View

            From which point of view is your AR book written?  Is it first person or second person?  List at least five clues from the text that led to your conclusion.  Be sure to include your book title.

TESTED READING SKILL: main idea and details

Reading Goal Progress: 4 Books

Have you quizzed on 4 books yet? If not, please quiz Monday on your 4th book!

9/13

Tomorrow is picture day!  Smile!

Students will take their Unit 1 math test (order of operations, multiplication, and long division) next week.

Tonight, be sure to finish IRA (3 cause-effect relationships from AR book), DITB 6, and idiom "poster" (Don't Take It Literally).

Study for tomorrow's spelling & vocabulary tests!

912

Study for multiplication speed test!

Finish spelling choice and vocabulary choice!

Work on idioms ("Don't Take It Literally")- due Fri.

Happy Birthday, Cheyenne!

Have a fabulous birthday!

9/11

*Get signed papers and progress reports signed!  (The SuccessMaker and Benchmark letters are yours to keep.)

Study times tables! 
AMP if you haven't scanned and/or corrections if you have them.

Finish sci. WB p. 16, 18-21.

Work on sp/voc. choices (due Thurs.).

Work on DITB 6 & IRA (due Fri.)

Spelling, Vocab, & IRA: Unit 2, Week 1

Unit 2, Week 1 Spelling and Vocabulary lists            Story: Excerpt from Shiloh

Spelling: compound words

Monday: Copy words in agenda in ABC order.

Tuesday & Wednesday: Work on spelling choice activity (due Thursday).

Study nightly (M-Th) for the sp. test on Friday.

1. afternoon                                                11. ice-skating                                               

2. background                                                12. cardboard

3. overcome                                                13. field trip

4. pillowcase                                                14. ninety-one

5. rooftop                                                15. eggshell

6. flagpole                                                16. all right

7. footstep                                                17. cheerleader

8. vice president                                    18. armchair

9. cornfield                                                19. earthworm

10. cornmeal                                                20. mountaintop

Challenge words: first-class, briefcase

 

Vocabulary:

Monday: Write the part of speech and definition for each vocabulary word ON YOUR OWN PAPER (finish for HW – due Tuesday).

Tuesday-Wednesday: Work on vocabulary choice activity (due Thursday).

Study each night, Monday – Thursday, for your test on Friday.

1.     decency (        ) –

2.     mournful (         ) –

3.     bulletin board (      ) –

4.     delivering (       ) –

5.     shrieks (       ) –

6.     injury (      ) –

7.     slurp (      ) –

8.     sympathy (      ) -

We will read the excerpt from the story Shiloh in class together on Tuesday. All students should re-read the story at home Tuesday night to prepare for comprehension work (on Wed.) and the story test on Friday.

Independent Reading Activity (due Friday): Use the cause-effect chain on the back as a model.  As you read your AR book, identify a cause-effect relationship and write in on your own paper.  You must have least three cause-effect relationships from your book.  If they all flow together (one causes the next), connect them like the model on the back.  If the cause-effect pairs are not related to each other, do not connect them together.

TESTED READING SKILL: make inferences

Computer Lab 9/10

It's time to start practicing keyboarding!  Click HERE to begin, but be sure to use your headphones!

*You can find a permanent link up in the "other websites" tab for future reference.  This site is also bookmarked in the school computer lab.

After our 20 minute practice time, go to Go to Brainpop.com and log in (unionco/panthers).

Click on Science, then Scientific Inquiry.  Scroll down to the bottom and click on Scientific Method.
Watch the movie as many times as you like and then take the graded quiz.  Print your results and bring them to Mrs. Dyer.

Then go to math and click on Numbers and Operations.  Watch and quiz on Order of Operations.  Again, print your results and bring to Mrs. Dyer.

You can watch and quiz on Exponents for extra credit.  This one is NOT required.  It is challenging!

If time allows, log in to Math Facts in a Flash (Renaissance) and get to work.

Happy Birthday, Matthew!

Have a very happy day!

Reading Goal Progress: 3 Books

We're approaching midterm! Have you read three books or 125,000 words yet? Please quiz on your 3rd book tomorrow if you haven't already.

9/6

Finish IRA (7 sentence types).
Finish DITB 5.

Study for spelling & vocabulary tests.

*SS Ch. 3 & 4 (Civil War & Reconstruction) test Tues.

Finish science presentations for Friday.

9/5

Finish AMP if you did not scan today and make any corrections as needed.
Be sure to study for your speed test!

Finish science project if you are presenting Thursday.

Work on IRA.
Finish spelling choice.

9/4

Study 0-11 times tables for speed test Thurs.

Work on Ch. 2 science project.  Presentations for Wednesday 9/5:

1.     Mountains and hills Wayman

2.     Plains Will

3.     Landforms of sand Jordan

4.     Landforms from water Lillian

5.     Georgia’s geologic regions Zack

6.     Battlefield geography (p. 71) Lance

7.     Georgia’s Fall Line Kaitlyn

Finish vocab. definitions.

Sp. in agenda in ABC order.

Start on spelling choice (due Thurs.).  You may do a vocab. choice for extra credit but not required.

Work on IRA: 7 types of sentences (due Fri.).

Work on DITB 5 except for Jordan who is exempt this week! :)

*Purple Communication Folders

This Month's Genre: Fantasy

September’s Genre Project: Fantasy Cereal                                  

            Before September 28, read a fantasy novel in your AR range and quiz on it.  Also complete the following project.  Again, these two tasks are due NO LATER THAN 9/28 and count as a READING TEST GRADE EACH.

1.              Save an empty cereal box (or similar type box).

2.              You will invent a cereal based on your fantasy book and design a cereal box that presents the information listed below about your book and the fantasy genre.  You do NOT need to actually make the cereal itself; you are decorating the box.

3.              Use paper, scissors, glue or tape, markers or colored pencils, etc., to decorate your box.  You may want to cut the paper to fit and decorate it before adhering to the box.

4.              FRONT: Write the name of the cereal and draw an illustration.  (You might model your cover after the actual front of your cereal box.)  Come up with an enticing name.  The name and shape of your cereal should relate to your book. 

5.              BACK: Create a game, puzzle, word search, etc., on the back that includes at least five elements of fantasy found in the book you read.  At the bottom, include a description of the fantasy genre in general.  (This could be a sentence or two, another game, or something else.  Be creative!)  Please include an answer key when necessary.

6.              RIGHT: Under the heading “ingredients,” list the main characters and write a descriptive sentence about each one.  Also write a descriptive sentence or two about the setting.

7.              LEFT: Write a summary that describes the main conflict and resolution of the book.  Make the language of your summary appealing, as if you are advertising the book.

8.              TOP: Write the Book Title and author.

9.              BOTTOM: Write your name, the date, and HD5.  (This may also be a good place for your answer key if you need one.)

10.           Plan a one-minute commercial to advertise your cereal to present to the class on 9/30.

11.           You may include extra information on your box AS LONG AS the required information is included.  Going “above and beyond” the requirements is encouraged to earn full points in each category.

Grading Rubric:

Front complete, thoughtful, and appropriate                        20 points

Back complete, thoughtful, and appropriate                        20

Right side complete, thoughtful, and appropriate            10

Left side complete, thoughtful, and appropriate            10

Top complete and accurate                                                    5

Bottom complete and accurate                                      5

Overall neat and appealing appearance                        10

Correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar                        10

Informative and interesting commercial                        10

I have read and understand the requirements and due date of the fantasy cereal genre project.

__________________________________                    __________________________________       

Student signature                                                            Parent signature

What Does One Trillion Dollars Look Like?

Check out what one trillion dollars looks like!  Click HERE.

This Week's Spelling, Vocab, & More

Unit 1, Week 6 Spelling/Vocabulary                                                Story: Forests of the World

Spelling words: words with /ü/, /ū/, and /ů/

Tuesday – Write words in ABC order in your agenda.

Tuesday – Begin spelling choice (due Thurs.).

Tuesday – Thursday – STUDY spelling nightly for your test on Friday

1.     tuna                                    11. booth

2.     duty                                    12. handbook

3.     lose                                    13. prove

4.     few                                    14. mute

5.     doom                                    15. amuse

6.     bamboo                        16. plume

7.     brood                                    17. hue

8.     crooks                                    18. view

9.     hoof                                    19. bruise

10.  hooks                                    20. union

Vocabulary words:

Tuesday – Name the part of speech and complete the definitions for each vocabulary word.  Use the glossary in your reading book (due Wednesday).

Wednesday – Thursday – STUDY vocabulary words and definitions for your test on Friday.

1.     quest  (________) – A search or ____________________

2.     settings  (________) – The surroundings of something; ____________________; environment

3.     reduce (________) – To make ____________________ or become smaller in size, ____________________ or degree

4.     buffet¹ (________) – To ____________________ about

5.     major (________) – Greater in __________________, amount, ____________________, importance, or rank

IRA: Seven Sentence Types (due Friday)

             As you read your AR book, find an example of each of the seven types of sentences.  Copy the sentence carefully, cite the page number, and label the sentence as either:

     declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, simple, compound, or complex

TESTED READING SKILL: cause and effect

*Unit 1 Reading and Language Arts tests will be given on Friday.