Tuesday, April 26, 2016

April 25-29

  • This week's story is Klondike Kate.
  • This week's genre is biography.
  • This week's focus skill is summarizing and paraphrasing.
  • This week's vocabulary words are remote, laden, appalled, invest, floundered, grueling, and isolated.
  • This week's spelling words are astronomy, disaster, asterisk, astronaut, asteroid, chronic, chronicle, chronology, chrononological, synchronize, cyclical, bicyclist, cyclone, encyclopedia, hydrogen, hydrant, hydrate, optic, optician, and optical.
  • This week's grammar skill is review.
  • We are working in Chapter 26 of social studies this week. Test is Friday.
  • There is a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
  • Your child will have reading and spelling homework nightly. Check agenda books! It's in there!
  • Field trip is Wednesday, April 27th. Pack a lunch with an extra drink and wear your 5th grade tshirt.
  • Sunday, April 17, 2016

    April 18-22

    We are back to a normal routine this week. Lesson 26.
    Thanks to everyone who sent snacks/drinks last week! We still have food left! We will finish it up this week.

  • This week's story is Lewis and Clark.
  • This week's genre is narrative nonfiction.
  • This week's focus skill is summarizing and paraphrasing.
  • This week's vocabulary words are asset, intently, profusely, ordeal, terrain, dismal, peril, and esteem.
  • This week's spelling words are unsuccessful, undoubtedly, impossibly, disloyalty, deactivation, unlikable, replacement, unsafely, uncollectible, immeasurable, impassible, encouragement, unbelievable, unselfishly, rearrangement, discoverable, dishonestly, unbreakable, reappearance, and reassurance.
  • We will be working on 5th grade grammar skills this week.
  • We are on week 25 in social studies this week. Test is on Thursday.
  • Your child will have reading and spelling homework nightly. Check agenda books! It's in there!
  • There will be a reading, grammar, and spelling test on Friday!
  • Wednesday, April 6, 2016

    April 4-8

  • Hope you all had a wonderful and restful spring week.
  • This week's story is The Compassion Campaign.
  • This week's vocabulary words are loathe, bland, mentor, dilapidated, coordination, altruism, sensibility, advocacy, mistreated, and compassionate.
  • This week's spelling words are review: indecisive, outpatient, downgrade, uptight, acceleration, demolition, pension, champion, authorization, cancellation, autumn, knowledge, rhyme, scenery, wrestled, armies, shelves, radios, tomatoes, and videos.
  • This week's grammar skill is idioms.
  • We are working in Week 24 in social studies.
  • There will be a social studies test on Thursday.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
  • Homework is listed in the agenda books.

  • Picture proofs went home yesterday. Money and orders are due by April 15th.
  • Reports cards went home on March 24th. If you have not signed and returned please do so asap.
  • Field trip info and permission slips went home also on March 24th. This money is due by next Friday, April 15th.
  • Testing/device policy sheets went home on April 5th. The yellow sheet is yours to keep, but the white sheet MUST be signed and return again asap.
  • State testing is next week April 11-15.
  • Thanks so much to those of you who are sending in snacks.
  • Any questions, please ask.