Friday, December 19, 2014
Updates
A huge thank you goes out to our room parents and all the other parents who helped with our party today! It was a great party, and the children had a blast!
Also, thank you for all the wonderful gifts you showered me with this week! I am truly overwhelmed! It is such a blessing to work with such amazing children. Having parental support in addition to that is just icing on the cake!
Many thank you notes went home today, but many did not make it into the Friday Folders. Please know I appreciate each and every gift. Please look for additional thank you notes in the January Friday Folders.
I hope you all have a safe and Merry Christmas and enjoy this special time with your families!
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Updates
Homework: Grammar WB pages 101 and 102
Tomorrow is our Winter Party. It begins at 1:30. Thank you to all the parents who have sent in items, who are sending in items tomorrow or who will be helping with all the party fun! I appreciate all of you!
Thank you to everyone who has sent in treats to fill the stockings! Students will open their stockings during our party tomorrow.
Tomorrow is our Winter Party. It begins at 1:30. Thank you to all the parents who have sent in items, who are sending in items tomorrow or who will be helping with all the party fun! I appreciate all of you!
Thank you to everyone who has sent in treats to fill the stockings! Students will open their stockings during our party tomorrow.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Updates
Homework:
Grammar WB: pages 99 and 100
Tomorrow is pajama day for fifth grade!
Tomorrow is also our great behavior reward party! We will be watching a movie and enjoying some pizza! Please bring in your green movie permission slip if you haven't already!
Grammar WB: pages 99 and 100
Tomorrow is pajama day for fifth grade!
Tomorrow is also our great behavior reward party! We will be watching a movie and enjoying some pizza! Please bring in your green movie permission slip if you haven't already!
Monday, December 15, 2014
Updates
I hope everyone had a nice weekend!
Your child is bringing home two important slips of paper today. One is a green permission slip and one is about games tomorrow. Please ask them to see these slips.
Homework: SS quick study lesson 2
Chapter test 5, 6.1 and 6.2 is Wednesday, 12/17. Study!
Don't forget, Thursday is pajama day for 5th grade!
Please remember your 23 stocking stuffers on your assigned day. Thank you so much for participating!
Your child is bringing home two important slips of paper today. One is a green permission slip and one is about games tomorrow. Please ask them to see these slips.
Homework: SS quick study lesson 2
Chapter test 5, 6.1 and 6.2 is Wednesday, 12/17. Study!
Don't forget, Thursday is pajama day for 5th grade!
Please remember your 23 stocking stuffers on your assigned day. Thank you so much for participating!
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
Updates
Our class spelling bee will be Wednesday, December 17, Study hard! You have been given hard copies of the list, but a digital list can be found on your student portal. Go to Upchurch Core and click the link.
Thursday, December 18 is Pajama Day for the 5th grade. Enjoy wearing your pajamas to school and snuggling up with a good book!
Please bring your stocking on Monday. Don't forget your class treats (23) on your assigned day to stuff the stockings. Thank you for participating in this fun activity!
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, December 18 is Pajama Day for the 5th grade. Enjoy wearing your pajamas to school and snuggling up with a good book!
Please bring your stocking on Monday. Don't forget your class treats (23) on your assigned day to stuff the stockings. Thank you for participating in this fun activity!
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Updates
Homework: Continue working on final draft of your persuasive paper. The final copy is due tomorrow, Friday. You may type it if you like.
Grammar: Go onto the student portal. Click on the link to the grammar video. After watching the video, complete Grammar WB pages 95 and 96.
SS: Quick Study lesson 1
Friends redoing their sharecropper assignment, make sure you study!
Grammar: Go onto the student portal. Click on the link to the grammar video. After watching the video, complete Grammar WB pages 95 and 96.
SS: Quick Study lesson 1
Friends redoing their sharecropper assignment, make sure you study!
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Updates
Homework:
Finish your rough draft of your Gingerbread Man persuasive paper. If you were absent, you must choose whose persepctive from which you are writing (the gingerbread man, the baker, yourself, a narrator), then decide your point of view (should the gingerbread man be eaten, or should he live?), then give four or five details (reasons) supporting your point of view. Tomorrow we will revise the rough drafts and work on final copies. THIS IS NOT A NARRATIVE, BE CAREFUL!
Some students have asked about typing their paper. You may type if you want to, but bring in your rough draft on a jump drive so that you may revise it here at school.
SS: Quick Study lesson 4. Vocabulary test is tomorrow on all Chapter 5 words. Students have a KIM sheet to help them study. The KIM sheet has the word, the definition and a picture to help them remember the definition.
SS Test on chapter 5, 6.1 and 6.2 is Wednesday, 12/17
Our classroom Spelling Bee will be held Wednesday 12/17. You were given a list in your Friday Folder several weeks ago. Please let me know if you need another one.
Finish your rough draft of your Gingerbread Man persuasive paper. If you were absent, you must choose whose persepctive from which you are writing (the gingerbread man, the baker, yourself, a narrator), then decide your point of view (should the gingerbread man be eaten, or should he live?), then give four or five details (reasons) supporting your point of view. Tomorrow we will revise the rough drafts and work on final copies. THIS IS NOT A NARRATIVE, BE CAREFUL!
Some students have asked about typing their paper. You may type if you want to, but bring in your rough draft on a jump drive so that you may revise it here at school.
SS: Quick Study lesson 4. Vocabulary test is tomorrow on all Chapter 5 words. Students have a KIM sheet to help them study. The KIM sheet has the word, the definition and a picture to help them remember the definition.
SS Test on chapter 5, 6.1 and 6.2 is Wednesday, 12/17
Our classroom Spelling Bee will be held Wednesday 12/17. You were given a list in your Friday Folder several weeks ago. Please let me know if you need another one.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Updates
Homework:
Grammar HW: Go onto your student portal. Click on Upchurch Core. You will find a link to a video about subject and object pronouns. Watch the video first, then complete workbook pages 93 and 94.
SS HW: Quick Study lesson 3. There will be a classwork grade tomorrow on the cycle of sharecropping. Study the four steps from today's graphic organizer.
SS: Chapter 5 vocabulary test is Thursday. Study nightly!
Grammar HW: Go onto your student portal. Click on Upchurch Core. You will find a link to a video about subject and object pronouns. Watch the video first, then complete workbook pages 93 and 94.
SS HW: Quick Study lesson 3. There will be a classwork grade tomorrow on the cycle of sharecropping. Study the four steps from today's graphic organizer.
SS: Chapter 5 vocabulary test is Thursday. Study nightly!
Monday, December 8, 2014
Updates
SS: Quick Studies for lessons 1 and 2. Your KIM sheet is not homework. We will do more work with that tomorrow.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Updates
Homework: Grammar WB: page 150
I will be out of town tomorrow. Please remember to bring your SS/Science binder to Language Arts. You will be doing nonfiction reading in the computer lab and filling out graphic organizers which are in your binder.
You will have a cold reading test tomorrow. I expect you to read closely, and circle or highlight your answers before you mark the answer. Do not rush!
Friday Folders and choice cards will be coming home, but the choice cards will not be marked with E, S, N or U. Please look at the number of checks, if any, your child received and initial.
Continue keeping up with your nightly reading log and your School Wide Reading Program Bookmark.
Have a great weekend!
I will be out of town tomorrow. Please remember to bring your SS/Science binder to Language Arts. You will be doing nonfiction reading in the computer lab and filling out graphic organizers which are in your binder.
You will have a cold reading test tomorrow. I expect you to read closely, and circle or highlight your answers before you mark the answer. Do not rush!
Friday Folders and choice cards will be coming home, but the choice cards will not be marked with E, S, N or U. Please look at the number of checks, if any, your child received and initial.
Continue keeping up with your nightly reading log and your School Wide Reading Program Bookmark.
Have a great weekend!
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Updates
Homework:
Grammar HW is on your student portal. You will look at four grammar videos on Time for Kids then take a short quiz after each. Enter your score for each quiz by using the link to the discussion.
SS: Quick study lesson 4. Study for your chapter 3 and 4 test. Test is Thursday!
Grammar HW is on your student portal. You will look at four grammar videos on Time for Kids then take a short quiz after each. Enter your score for each quiz by using the link to the discussion.
SS: Quick study lesson 4. Study for your chapter 3 and 4 test. Test is Thursday!
Monday, December 1, 2014
Updates
Homework: SS: Study for your chapter 3 and 4 test which is Thursday!
We will go back to the computer lab on Wednesday to finish the invention brochures. They are due Wednesday at the end of SS.
Thank you for all the donations for the gingerbread men. We still need LARGE brown paper grocery bags, white rick rack and buttons. Please send them in whenever you can!
We will go back to the computer lab on Wednesday to finish the invention brochures. They are due Wednesday at the end of SS.
Thank you for all the donations for the gingerbread men. We still need LARGE brown paper grocery bags, white rick rack and buttons. Please send them in whenever you can!
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Cotton!
Here are six bales of cotton I just saw in south Alabama. They are each almost as big as a small school bus!
Friday, November 21, 2014
Updates
Monday, December 1...all LA students need to bring a large brown paper grocery bag to school for a gingerbread man project. We also need donations of buttons, any size or type, and packs of white "rick rack." Thank you so much!
All SS students need to bring their invention research to school on a jump drive on Monday.
Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for all of my wonderful students. They truly are a special group!!
Immigration
Our SS lesson yesterday was "immigration." Great timing considering the president's executive order. We mentioned it briefly today, but didn't discuss it in depth. Take some time to discuss it this week. It's a great teaching moment!
SS students engaged in Growing Groups...
Students had to collaborate on main ideas of sections of SS text, then combine those into a summary. 
Groups of two turned into groups of four, then combined into groups of eight. Great discussions on the Labor Movement throughout!
Groups of two turned into groups of four, then combined into groups of eight. Great discussions on the Labor Movement throughout!
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Updates
Thank you to all the parents who came to eat Thanksgiving Lunch today! It was really nice seeing everyone!
HW: SS: Quick Study Lesson 2
SS: Continue with your research for your invention project. Research is due on Monday, Dec. 1. Please have your research on a jump drive if at all possible.
HW: SS: Quick Study Lesson 2
SS: Continue with your research for your invention project. Research is due on Monday, Dec. 1. Please have your research on a jump drive if at all possible.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Holiday Preparations
On Monday, December 1, each child will need to have one large paper brown grocery bag. We will be making gingerbread men with them. Please pick up one or two over the Thanksgiving break. There are always children that will forget, so extras will be put to good use.
We also need a few packages of white "rick rack." That will be used as icing on the gingerbread men.
Lastly, we will need buttons. Any size and shape will do.
Thank you for any donations you can make!
We also need a few packages of white "rick rack." That will be used as icing on the gingerbread men.
Lastly, we will need buttons. Any size and shape will do.
Thank you for any donations you can make!
School-wide Reading Program
November bookmarks are due Friday, Novemer 21 for prizes from the media center!
Updates
Homework:
Grammar WB: pages 139 and 140. Skill: Using quotation marks correctly
SS: Quick Study Chapter 4, lessson 1
Continue working on your research for your Invention Project. Research is due Monday, December 1.
Groups A and B can BYOD tomorrow for reading responses only.
Thanksgiving Feast is tomorrow! I am looking forward to seeing our parents!
Grammar WB: pages 139 and 140. Skill: Using quotation marks correctly
SS: Quick Study Chapter 4, lessson 1
Continue working on your research for your Invention Project. Research is due Monday, December 1.
Groups A and B can BYOD tomorrow for reading responses only.
Thanksgiving Feast is tomorrow! I am looking forward to seeing our parents!
Interesting Link:
We discussed Thomas Edison, the light bulb and power plants during SS today. Here is a link to a short video explaining how electricity is made.
How do we make electricity?
How do we make electricity?
Friday, November 14, 2014
Updates
Mid-term grade reports are in the Friday Folders. Please go over them carefully with your child. There shouldn't be any surprises if you are checking the portal regularly.
BYOD News: Next week students will be using their own devices to make reading responses digitally. If you have your Independent Reading Rotation on Monday, then you should bring your device on Monday. If you have IR on Tuesday, then you only will need your device on Tuesday, and so on.
Just in case you don't know your IR day:
Monday: Group C
Tuesday: Group D
Wednesday: Group A
Thursday: Group B
Have a wonderful weekend! Get outside and enjoy the brisk weather!
BYOD News: Next week students will be using their own devices to make reading responses digitally. If you have your Independent Reading Rotation on Monday, then you should bring your device on Monday. If you have IR on Tuesday, then you only will need your device on Tuesday, and so on.
Just in case you don't know your IR day:
Monday: Group C
Tuesday: Group D
Wednesday: Group A
Thursday: Group B
Have a wonderful weekend! Get outside and enjoy the brisk weather!
Thursday, November 13, 2014
New SS Project
SS: Show your parents your rubric for your new SS project. Look through chapter 4 to choose an invention for your project. You will be doing all your research at home, but you will create your actual brochure here at school in the computer lab using Publisher.
Updates
Homework:
Grammar sheet 645. Skill: Quotation Marks
Grammar Test tomorrow on sentence types. Pages to review in Super Writer Grammar Book are 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28. and 109
SS: Quick Study #2
Grammar sheet 645. Skill: Quotation Marks
Grammar Test tomorrow on sentence types. Pages to review in Super Writer Grammar Book are 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28. and 109
SS: Quick Study #2
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Updates
Homework: Be familiar with Comparative and Superlative Adjectives (ier and iest) for tomorrow's Mentor Sentence class work grade. You can review pages 73 and 75 in your super writer grammar workbook.
Grammar Test on types of sentences is Friday!
Social Studies: Welcome, Mrs. Morand's class! Quick Study Lesson 1. RESTATE the question! I will be looking for QUALITY answers! Thank you for taking your time!
Grammar Test on types of sentences is Friday!
Social Studies: Welcome, Mrs. Morand's class! Quick Study Lesson 1. RESTATE the question! I will be looking for QUALITY answers! Thank you for taking your time!
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Updates
Grammar: Use two different colored highlighters to complete your grammar sheet. If you take two from school, please be sure to return them to me!
Writing: Work on your C/C informational paper. It is due tomorrow at the end of class. This paper is a test grade, so do your best!
Social Studies and Science groups switch tomorrow!
Writing: Work on your C/C informational paper. It is due tomorrow at the end of class. This paper is a test grade, so do your best!
Social Studies and Science groups switch tomorrow!
Monday, November 10, 2014
Updates
Homework:
Social Studies: Quick Studies: Lessons 1 and 2
Chapter Test 5, 6.1 and 6.2 is tomorrow!
Informational Papers are due Wednesday at the end of LA. Work on these at home if you feel like you might not finish on time. You will have 30 minutes in class on Tuesday and 30 minutes in class on Wednesday. This is for a test grade, so parents may not assist! Thank you!
Grammar Test on types of sentences is Friday!
Social Studies: Quick Studies: Lessons 1 and 2
Chapter Test 5, 6.1 and 6.2 is tomorrow!
Informational Papers are due Wednesday at the end of LA. Work on these at home if you feel like you might not finish on time. You will have 30 minutes in class on Tuesday and 30 minutes in class on Wednesday. This is for a test grade, so parents may not assist! Thank you!
Grammar Test on types of sentences is Friday!
Friday, November 7, 2014
Updates
Friday Folders are full! Please check for self portrait magnets. If you want to purchase the artwork, follow the directions in the packet. If you are not interested, please return the magnet to school on Monday.
Spelling Bee lists are in Friday Folders. Please keep this in a safe place. If you lose it, you can find a copy on the C&I tool in the student portal.
November book marks are in the folders. Please keep up with this. They are due November 21.
Have a great weekend!
Spelling Bee lists are in Friday Folders. Please keep this in a safe place. If you lose it, you can find a copy on the C&I tool in the student portal.
November book marks are in the folders. Please keep up with this. They are due November 21.
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Updates
Homework:
Grammar: complete your conjunctions brochure
Writing: finish your two box graphic organizer for your informational paper comparing and contrasting the two Bill Peet books we have analyzed.
Social Studies: Quick Study lesson 4
Chapter 5 vocab test is tomorrow!
Chapter 5 and 6.1 and 6.2 test is Tuesday, 11/11.
Grammar Test is Friday, 11/14
Grammar: complete your conjunctions brochure
Writing: finish your two box graphic organizer for your informational paper comparing and contrasting the two Bill Peet books we have analyzed.
Social Studies: Quick Study lesson 4
Chapter 5 vocab test is tomorrow!
Chapter 5 and 6.1 and 6.2 test is Tuesday, 11/11.
Grammar Test is Friday, 11/14
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Updates
Homework: SS: Quick Study lesson 3. Study the cycle of sharecropping sheet we completed today. Tomorrow (Thursday) we will have a class work grade on the causes and effects of sharecropping.
SS Chapter 5 vocabulary test is Friday!
Chapter test for 5 and 6.1 and 6.2 is Tuesday, November 11.
Grammar Test, Friday 11/14, You need to know the types of sentences: simple, compound, complex and compound-complex. You need to know where commas go in each type of sentence. You also need to know the difference between independent and dependent clauses. Finally, you need to know when to use FANBOYS (coordinating conjunctions).
Secret word of the day is "sharecropping." You must whisper it to me before announcements to get your treat. Thank you for checking the blog!
SS Chapter 5 vocabulary test is Friday!
Chapter test for 5 and 6.1 and 6.2 is Tuesday, November 11.
Grammar Test, Friday 11/14, You need to know the types of sentences: simple, compound, complex and compound-complex. You need to know where commas go in each type of sentence. You also need to know the difference between independent and dependent clauses. Finally, you need to know when to use FANBOYS (coordinating conjunctions).
Secret word of the day is "sharecropping." You must whisper it to me before announcements to get your treat. Thank you for checking the blog!
Monday, November 3, 2014
Updates
Homework:
Grammar: complete the Verb Brochure. List 10 action verbs, all the linking verbs and all the helping verbs. Students can use their Super Writer Grammar Book to find the lists, or look it up on line. After listing the verbs, use one verb in a sentence for each verb type. That means one list and one sentence per verb type.
SS: Quick Study for Lesson 5.2
Vocabulary Test for all of chapter 5 will be Friday, November 7.
Test for Chapter 5, and lesson 6.1 and 6.2will be Tuesday, November 11.
No school tomorrow, Tuesday, November 4. See you Wednesday!
Grammar: complete the Verb Brochure. List 10 action verbs, all the linking verbs and all the helping verbs. Students can use their Super Writer Grammar Book to find the lists, or look it up on line. After listing the verbs, use one verb in a sentence for each verb type. That means one list and one sentence per verb type.
SS: Quick Study for Lesson 5.2
Vocabulary Test for all of chapter 5 will be Friday, November 7.
Test for Chapter 5, and lesson 6.1 and 6.2will be Tuesday, November 11.
No school tomorrow, Tuesday, November 4. See you Wednesday!
Sunday, November 2, 2014
SS Grades
Grades have been posted for the Chapter 3/4 test and the Invention Brochure.
If you have an NTI for the brochure that means you either didn't put your name on your brochure, or you didn't turn in a rubric for me to grade your brochure. Please figure it out on Monday!
If you have an NTI for the brochure that means you either didn't put your name on your brochure, or you didn't turn in a rubric for me to grade your brochure. Please figure it out on Monday!
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Updates
Homework:
Grammar sheet 78
Social Studies: Quick Study Lesson 1, Finish "Before and After" Poster
STEM Activity tomorrow: Go onto your student portal and find the assignment entitled Research/Investigate Homework. Remember you have to click on "core" to find your assignments. You need to have this assignment completed so that you can complete tomorrow's STEM activity.
Reminder: No costumes, hair dye or make up at school tomorrow.
I will not be at school on Friday. I'll be out of town. Be on your best behavior for our substitute, and do your best work! Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
Grammar sheet 78
Social Studies: Quick Study Lesson 1, Finish "Before and After" Poster
STEM Activity tomorrow: Go onto your student portal and find the assignment entitled Research/Investigate Homework. Remember you have to click on "core" to find your assignments. You need to have this assignment completed so that you can complete tomorrow's STEM activity.
Reminder: No costumes, hair dye or make up at school tomorrow.
I will not be at school on Friday. I'll be out of town. Be on your best behavior for our substitute, and do your best work! Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
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