5th Grade ELA

It's becoming obvious that many students are not studying their Word Study words each night.  Please encourage your child to master the meanings of these 15 words each week!  Even though they are not to turn in paper homework, their homework is to study these words nightly.  Please watch the parent portal for their grades. Thank you for your support!

5th Grade SS

We have our Chapter 8 test on Thursday, January 31.  Please be studying your chapter paying close attention to highlighted vocabulary.  Also look at the questions after each section. Also be sure to study the chapter review at the end of the chapter.  Review your homework assignments carefully and know the three graphic organizers we used for this chapter.

Science Fair Club

Everyone did such a great job on the science fair!  I am really proud of all the students' efforts!  You are free to take your board home from the media center any time it's convenient for you.  If you want your score sheet from the judge, you may get that from me any time. 

I do need to meet with the six students that are advancing to the County Fair.  We need to look at your feedback and tweak your boards.  Please meet this Thursday morning, January 31, at 7:40 in my room.  This meeting is for:
Ian
Alice
Rachel
Bill
Lauren
Jeungsok

Thank you so much! 

4th Grade HW

Thursday evening vocab words:
paltry
knickers
puny
tatters
scrawny
undergo

So proud of our Science Fair winners!

I need to meet with the 6 winners on Thursday, January 31 at 7:40.

4th Grade Reading

Vocab Words from Bud, Not Buddy for Wednesday evening:
dangling
belt (verb)
wrestled
slew
glimpse
spitting image

5th Grade SS Project

Each student has been assigned one leader from WWII.  They are to begin biographical research on their leader.  They will be writing biographies on these leaders soon. The writings will be from the leader's point of view.  For example, "I am Winston Churchill.  I was born and raised..." The biography will not be long, less than one typed page.  Try to find information about WHY the leader became the positive or negative influence he was on the world.  Final papers will be due Tuesday, January 29.  Please work on your research a little bit each night! 

4th Grade AC Reading

Vocabulary for Tuesday, January 22:

devoured
ventriloquists
gory
piped
crick
rustle
bum-rush

Funny Friends!

5th Grade Writing "Hard Work Zone"

4th Grade...I Have a Dream!

5th Grade Reading and ELA

Students are in the middle of a long term reading assignment.  Each student should be finishing a fiction novel.  They have been practicing "close reading" and should be filling out a "notice & note" graphic organizer as they read.  Their books should be finished and graphic organizers complete when they return to school on Tuesday, January 23.  The graphic organizers will be returned to them after I grade them and then they will use that information to write a paper.  Please make sure they are finishing their book and graphic organizer this weekend.  Thank you for your support!

FOCUS 5th Grade

5th Graders should be researching and discussing with their parents, stocks that they would like to purchase.  We will be entering the Stock Market Game soon.  Please take this opportunity to talk about the economy with your child.

Science Fair Club

Final projects are due Tuesday, January 22.  We will meet on Tuesday at 7:40 in my room to share our boards.  Formal judging will take place Tuesday after school.  Students will not stay for that.  They will see the winners when they arrive at school Wednesday. 

You can purchase the boards at Hobby Lobby, Michaels, Staples, Office Depot or Office Max. 
Tape runners, glue dots, glue sticks, paper cutters, etc. can also be purchased at the above stores. No tape should show on a board and cutting should be neat. 

4th Grade Reading

Tonight's vocabulary homework...I forgot to put the words up last night.  If you already did them, then you are finished!  If you didn't define these words last night, then please do them tonight.
wiry
Hooverville
smack
cellar
bustingt

5th Grade SS

Vocabulary Test is tomorrow!  Be ready!
Chapter test is Thursday, 1/17...study!

5th Grade ELA

Make sure you have your novel with you tomorrow.  You will be reading and making notes for your paper.  We will  be noting "signposts" as we read.  Your book and notes must be complete by Tuesday, January 22. I will let you know the due date for the paper as we progress.

4th Grade Reading

Vocabulary Words for tonight:  Monday
valve
matrimonial
radiating
gait
mission
hoodlum
britches

4th Grade Reading

Tonight's Vocabulary Homework:
lam
telegraph
strap
crapper
upside
whiff
tetters

5th Grade SS

Students will have a chapter test on Thursday, January 17.  It will cover Chapter 6 lesson 3 (WWI) and all of chapter 7. They were given a study guide today. 

5th Grade SS

There will be a vocabulary test on Tuesday, January 15.  The following terms will be tested:
21st Amendment
18th Amendment
credit
Dust Bowl
Treaty of Versailles
New Deal
Social Security
drought
Great Depression
assembly line
stock market
inflation
prohibition
mass production
League of Nations
WW1
mass media
alliance
Harlem Renaissance
migrant worker
isolationism
nationalism
jazz
unemployment

4th Grade Reading

Tonight's Homework: Define the following words:
paddled
glum
engagement
luxurious
provoked
plagues

4th Grade Reading

Tonight's homework:  Define the following vocabulary words from our novel Bud, Not Buddy
icebox
padlock
simmered
vermin
urchins
ingratitude
foster

5th Grade AC ELA

Homework:  We began a new writing assignment on Thursday, our first day back.  The students are writing an informational essay about the persuasive writers they have studied this year in Social Studies.  They have been doing research and today they started a two box graphic organizer for their writing.  They must finish the graphic organizer tonight.  Please ask them about this assignment.  They can continue to gather information by doing on line research or by using their SS book.

FAT-P:  Form:  essay, Audience: the reader/everyone, Topic:  persuasive writers in history, Purpose:  to inform.

Prompt:   The works of many writers have greatly impacted the world and indeed changed the world.  Write an information essay about these writers.  Be sure to discuss what caused them to write their works, and what the effects were of their writings.

Writers they may be writing about:  H.B.Stowe, John Muir, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Ida Wells-Barnett, Willa Cather, Booker T. Washington, etc.

They will begin rough drafts on Tuesday, January 8.  Final copies are due Friday at the end of class.
I am consistently amazed at what talented writers these children are becoming!

4th Grade Reading

Homework tonight:
Define the following words:
depression
beloved
conscience
lavatory
locomotive
ilk
brute