Congratulations to the students of Room 208! They have won their first “great behavior” marble party. On Monday, we will celebrate!! Furthermore, today officially ends trimester 1. Some important information follows regarding our 5th grade late work and extra credit policies.
Late homework - Trimester 2
1 day late - minus 15%
More than 1 day late until unit test is taken - minus 25%
After unit test is taken - a zero is entered in the grade book
Please remember that here at Prairieview, we suggest that students set a personal goal for the grades they would like to earn each trimester, and then work towards that goal the entire trimester. Therefore, students are NOT given opportunities for extra credit assignments. However, teachers may provide bonus points on various assignments throughout the year.
On Tuesday, November 23rd, Fullersburg Woods will be coming to talk with the 5th graders about ecosystems. They will focus on the concept of food chains and the energy pyramid and how everything in our world is connected. This fits in great with our science chapters 5 and 6.
Coming up this week:
Mrs. Klacza's Reading/Spelling Class:
We will continue writing extended responses this week, using questions from our realistic fiction novels. Furthermore, we will continue to review all the skills we have studied so far this school year, specifically, summarizing, drawing conclusions, inferencing, identifying author generalizations, and visualizing. We are also continuing our word work with vocabulary words. We will be finishing The Kid in the Red Jacket this week and the students will be assigned a culminating book project.
Spell
ing: Lesson 11: Pretest on Monday. Homework due onThursday; Test Friday.
English: We continue our study of verbs with part II of our chapter, specifically studying contractions with not, regular and irregular verbs, verb phrases with have, and correctly using the verbs teach/learn and let/leave. I plan to wrap the chapter up with a test on lessons 8-15 on Tuesday, 11/23.
Social Studies: Did your child tell you how successful our social studies testers were?? We had nothing lower than a B on chapter 6! We won't be starting chapter 7 until the end of the week.
Science: Chapter 6 begins this week with lesson 1 reading and note taking, followed by a Bill Nye video on population. An open note, open book assessment will occur on Tuesday.
Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:
Our “quest” on chapter 6 will be on Monday. We'll then have a “target test” this week to make sure the students are able to master some of the important concepts regarding decimals. We will then be working on extended responses leading us into the holiday weekend.
Important Dates:
11/12 – End of Trimester 1
11/16 – Report cards
11/24, 25, 26 – Thanksgiving holiday
11/29, 11/30, & 12/1 – Parent/Teacher Conferences
12/3 – Day off (conferences)
Have a wonderful weekend! Mrs. Klacza
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