Bray's Class Assignments

Welcome to Week 36 - May 15 - 19, 2023

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

Reading - The deadline for AR is May 18th.  This week, we will complete the novel, Fish in a Tree so your children can take the AR test on this book.  The book test will be Wednesday, May 17th. 

Vocabulary workshop - Children will get a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, May 9th.  We will review the story, vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms daily.  This week, we will have synonyms and antonyms on Wednesday, May 17th.

English -    This week, we will continue Chapter 16.  We will have a quiz on this chapter, Tuesday, May 16th.  On Wednesday, we will have the end of the chapter test for a major grade. 

Spelling - No spelling!

Have a wonderful week!

Welcome to Week 35 - May 8 - 12, 2023

*WE ARE THROUGH WITH TESTING!!! WHEW! I KNOW EVERYONE IS GLAD THAT IT IS OVERWITH.  PATRIOT PALOOZA IS FRIDAY, MAY 12TH.  WE ARE READY FOR SOME OUTSIDE FUN!

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

Reading - The deadline for AR is May 18th.  This week, we will complete the novel, Fish in a Tree.  Your children should enjoy this novel.  They will get copies of this book they can bring home each day.  Our focus this week will be perspective and character traits.  This week we will read chapters 43 - end.  We will have a test on these chapters on Thursday, May 11th.  We will continue to review skills.  

Vocabulary workshop - Children will get a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, May 9th.  We will review the story, vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms daily.  This week, we will have synonyms and antonyms on Thursday, May 11th.  The following week, on Tuesday, May 16th we will have "complete the sentence" for a minor grade and on Friday, May 19th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade. 

Literature circle - The children received their books on Wednesday, March 28th.  I also gave them their literature circle project for this nine weeks and explained it.  This is due Wednesday, May 10th.  Please make sure your child is reading and completing his/her lit. circle paper each week.  ***ALL LITERATURE CIRCLE BOOKS SHOULD BE FINISHED BY THIS WEDNESDAY, MAY 3RD. 

English -    This week, we will continue Chapter 16.  This is on pattern 5 sentences which contain predicate adjectives.  We will have a quiz on chapter 16 Wednesday, May 10th.  The following Tuesday, May 16th, we will have test on this chapter. We will also continue our poetry project.  Children will need a three-pronged folder for this project.  We will be working on writing poetry and figurative language examples and illustrating them.  This should be a fun, easy project.  This will all be completed in class.

Spelling - Last week of spelling!!  The spelling words this week are: ballet, echo, bouquet, cassette, coupon, safari, portrait, barrette, depot, courtesy, petite, denim, brunette, buffet, garage, khaki, crochet, chorus, essay, alphabet, encore, collage, matinee, premiere, and embarrass.  The assignments will be - Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - spelling sentences #1 compound, #2 complex.  All sentences MUST be at least seven words long, Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have our last spelling test. HOORAY!

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 34 - May 1 - 5, 2023

*TESTING WEEK 2 IS HERE! WE WILL BE TESTING TUESDAY AND THURSDAY THIS WEEK - TUESDAY IS MATH AND THURSDAY IS SCIENCE.  PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD HAS PLENTY OF REST AT NIGHT. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

Reading - The deadline for AR is May 18th.  This week, we will continue the novel, Fish in a Tree.  Your children should enjoy this novel.  They will get copies of this book they can bring home each day.  We will continue to review skills.  Our focus this week will be perspective.  This week we will read chapters 34 - 42.  We will have a test on these chapters on Friday, May 5th.  We will continue to review skills.  

Vocabulary workshop - Children will get a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, May 2nd.  We will review the story, vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms daily.  This week, we will have synonyms and antonyms on FRIDAY due to state testing on Thursday.  The following week, on Tuesday, May 9th, we will have  "complete the sentence" for a minor grade and on Thursday, May 11th, we will have a test on these words.  We will have the test on Thursday due to Patriot Palooza being on Friday, May 12th. 

Literature circle - The children received their books on Wednesday, March 28th.  I also gave them their literature circle project for this nine weeks and explained it.  This is due Wednesday, May 10th.  Please make sure your child is reading and completing his/her lit. circle paper each week.  ***ALL LITERATURE CIRCLE BOOKS SHOULD BE FINISHED BY THIS WEDNESDAY, MAY 3RD. 

English -    This week, we will begin Chapter 16.  This is on pattern 5 sentences which contain predicate adjectives.  We will also begin our poetry project.  Children will need a three-pronged folder for this project.  We will be working on writing poetry and figurative language examples and illustrating them.  This should be a fun, easy project.  This will all be completed in class.

Spelling - We will NOT have spelling the next two weeks due to state testing. 

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 33 - April 24 - 28, 2023

*TESTING WEEK 1 IS HERE! WE WILL BE TESTING TUESDAY AND THURSDAY FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS!  PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD HAS PLENTY OF REST AT NIGHT. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

We are working on MOBY MAX test prep.  Children need 100 percent in English/Language and 100 percent in both of the reading components - reading literature and reading information. We've had a lot of class time, WIN time, computer lab, etc., to do this.  Your children should be working on this a little at home as well. SO many of the students are getting this done. I'm so proud of them all.  Many had 100 percent already this week!!

Reading - The deadline for AR is May 18th.  This week, we will continue a new novel, Fish in a Tree.  Your children should enjoy this novel.  They will get copies of this book they can bring home each day.  We will continue to review skills.  Our focus this week will be perspective.  This week we will read chapters 26-33.  We will have a test on these chapters on Friday, April 28th  We will continue to review skills.  

Vocabulary workshop - We will NOT have vocabulary workshop the next two weeks.  State tests begin the week of April 24th, and I don't want to start vocabulary workshop this week and then skip a week for tests.  We will resume the week of May 1st.   

Literature circle - The children received their books on Wednesday, March 28th.  I also gave them their literature circle project for this nine weeks and explained it.  This is due Wednesday, May 10th.  Please make sure your child is reading and completing his/her lit. circle paper each week.  

English -    This week, we will continue chapter 15. This is on pattern 4 sentences that contain predicate nominatives.  We will have a test on this chapter Monday, April 24th.  We will also work on writing where the children are given a prompt and must complete the writing in one period as practice for the test. 

Spelling - We will NOT have spelling the next two weeks due to state testing. 

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 32 - April 17 - 21, 2023

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

We are working on MOBY MAX test prep.  Children need 100 percent in English/Language and 80 percent in both of the reading components - reading literature and reading information. We've had a lot of class time, WIN time, computer lab, etc., to do this.  Your children should be working on this a little at home as well. SO many of the students are getting this done. I'm so proud of them all.  Many had the 100 percent already this week!!

Reading - The deadline for AR is May 18th.  This week, we will continue a new novel, Fish in a Tree.  Your children should enjoy this novel.  They will get copies of this book they can bring home each day.  We will continue to review skills.  Our focus this week will be perspective.  This week we will read chapters 16 - 24.  We will have a test on these chapters on Friday, April 21st.  We will continue to review skills.  

Vocabulary workshop - We will NOT have vocabulary workshop the next two weeks.  State tests begin the week of April 24th, and I don't want to start vocabulary workshop this week and then skip a week for tests.  We will resume the week of May 1st.   

Literature circle - The children received their books on Wednesday, March 28th.  I also gave them their literature circle project for this nine weeks and explained it.  This is due Wednesday, May 10th.  Please make sure your child is reading and completing his/her lit. circle paper each week.  

English -    This week, we will continue chapter 15. This is on pattern 4 sentences that contain predicate nominatives.  We will have a quiz on this chapter Friday, April 21st. We will also work on writing where the children are given a prompt and must complete the writing in one period as practice for the test. 

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: inspect, export, erupt, predict, respect, bankrupt, dictate, porter, report, spectacle, deport, interrupt., dictator, import, disrupt, portable, transport, spectator, verdict, dictionary, spectacular, contradict, corrupt, retrospect, and rupture.  Our assignments will be Monday - 3 x each, Tuesday - sentences**, Wednesday - worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a spelling test and on Friday, we will have a dictation test.  **Sentences should always be at least even words - #1 compound and #2 complex.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 30 - April 3 -7, 2023

        Happy April!!  Hang on, Parents!  We've got a lot to do and spring has sprung!!

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

We are working on MOBY MAX test prep.  Children need 60 percent in English/Language and 40 percent in both of the reading components - reading literature and reading information. We've had a lot of class time, WIN time, computer lab, etc., to do this.  Your children should be working on this a little at home as well. 

Reading - The deadline for AR is May 18th.  This week, we will begin a new novel, Fish in a Tree.  Your children should enjoy this novel.  They will get copies of this book they can bring home each day.  We will continue to review skills.  Our focus skill this week will be point of view.  This week we will read chapters 1 - 8.  We will have a test on these chapters Thursday, April 6th.  We will continue to review skills.  We will focus on point of view.  

Vocabulary workshop - The children will receive a new story on Tuesday, April 4th.  We will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms each day.  On Thursday, April 6th, we will have a minor grade on synonyms/antonyms.  The following week, on Wednesday, April 12th, we will have a minor grade on "complete the sentence". Our test will be Friday, April 14th.

Literature circle - The children received their books on Wednesday, March 28th.  I also gave them their literature circle project for this nine  weeks and explained it.  This is due Wednesday, May 10th.  Please make sure your child is reading and completing his/her lit. circle paper each week.  

English -    This week, on Wednesday, we will have a quiz on chapter 14.  On Thursday, we will have a test on this chapter for a major grade.  Final papers are due Thursday for a major grade.

We will NOT have spelling this week!!!

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 29 - March 27 - 31, 2023

        I can't BELIEVE this is the last week of March.  Hang on, Parents!  We've got a lot to do and spring has sprung!!

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  

Reading - This week, STAR tests are completed.  The AR note will be sent home on Tuesday, March 28th.  The deadline is May 18th.  This week, we will read from our readers.  We will be reading a story called, "Lunch Money", and working on previously taught skills, including figurative language and author's purpose.  We will have a test on Friday, March 31st, on this story.    

Vocabulary workshop - The children received a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, March 21st.   Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. This week, on Tuesday, March 28th, we will take "complete the sentence" for a minor grade, and on Friday, March 31st, we will have a test on these words.

 Literature circle - We will get our books and folders on Wednesday, March 29th. The children will have new folders and will know what they are supposed to read each week.  I will also give them their lit. circle project information at that time.  

English -    We began a new chapter in Shurley last week. We will continue working on chapter 14 this week.  We will also continue working on complex, compound sentences.  Students will continue writing their revised research paper, meet with me, and begin writing the final for a major grade. The final paper will be due Wednesday, April 5th for a major grade.

In spelling, our words will be - vacant, insistent, reversible, honorable, contestant, patriotism, observant, urgent, pessimist, comfortable, absorbent, optimism, finalist, terrible, frequent, laughable, radiant, collectible, novelist, journalism, evident, triumphant, occupant, digestible, and curable.  The assignments will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 sentences #1 compound, #2 complex, Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a regular spelling test and on Friday, we will have a dictation test.  

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 28 - March 20 - 24, 2023

         Please, please, please!!! If it isn't the weekend of the 18th - 19th, shut this site down.  We ALL need a much deserved BREAK!! Our kids have been working very hard.  Everyone relax and enjoy being together!

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  

Reading - This week, we will finish Number the Stars.  This historical fiction novel takes place during WWII.  The main two characters are a young Jewish girl and her protestant friend and how they and their families navigate the Nazi invasion into Poland during WWII.  I think the children will really enjoy this novel.  This week we will focus on reviewing figurative language.  We will finish our novel and take a test this Friday, March 24th.  I'm planning to have each child take his/her STAR test by Wednesday, March 22nd.  Everyone will be able to take this AR test for a few points once we finish reading it.   

Vocabulary workshop - The children will receive a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, March 21st.   Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. This week, we will have "syn/ant" on Thursday, March 23rd.  The following week, on Tuesday, March 28th, we will take "complete the sentence" for a minor grade, and on Friday, March 31st, we will have a test on these words.

 Literature circle - We will resume lit. circles this week.  We will vote on books, Friday, March 24th.  We will get our books and folders on Wednesday, March 29th. 

English -    We will begin a new chapter in Shurley on Wednesday, March 22nd. We will learn about indirect objects.  Students will continue writing their revised research paper, meet with me, and begin writing the final for a major grade. We will continue reviewing skills to include complex and compound sentences. 

In spelling, our words will be -  produce, company, protect, preview, contain, combat, prejudge, commotion, contest, prefix, progress, computer, confide, convince, prospect, confirm, preflight, provide, propose, promotion, concurrent, conscious, commercial, complete, and conversation. The assignments will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 sentences #1 compound, #2 complex, Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a regular spelling test and on Friday, we will have a dictation test.  

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 27 - March 6 - 10, 2023

**We will NOT have homework this week.  We have the ELS end of the  year test.  I want children to be well rested before the tests.  Tuesday - ELA, Wednesday - math, Thursday - science

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will continue with Number the Stars.  This historical fiction novel takes place during WWII.  The main two characters are a young Jewish girl and her protestant friend and how they and their families navigate the Nazi invasion into Poland during WWII.  I think the children will really enjoy this novel.  We will review main idea/fact and opinion and will have a test for a major grade on these skills on Thursday, March 9th. This week, we will be reading chapters 13-15.  We will have  a quiz on these chapters on Friday, March 10th. 

Vocabulary workshop - We will NOT have vocabulary workshop this week. You're welcome!  I don't want to start a unit and not finish it before spring break.  NO studying during the break!!

Literature circle - We will resume lit. circles after spring break.  The children did a great job presenting their projects!!

English -    This week, we will work on writing different papers using narrative, persuasive, and informational prompts. We will also work on identifying fragments, complex and compound sentences. We will also continue working on our research paper. 

We will NOT have spelling this week.  We are taking the ELS end of the  year test, and will have to be working on that for several days. I want everyone to get a good night's sleep and not worry about studying or homework this week.

Have a wonderful week!!

lit. circle

Welcome to Week 26 - February 27 - March 3, 2023

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will continue with Number the Stars.  This historical fiction novel takes place during WWII.  The main two characters are a young Jewish girl and her protestant friend and how they and their families navigate the Nazi invasion into Poland during WWII.  I think the children will really enjoy this novel.  We will continue to work on text structure.  We will also review comparing and contrasting and cause/effect.  We will have a reading test on chapters 9-12 on Friday, February 24th. 

This week is also "Read Across America Week".  This week we will celebrate Reading!  YAY!!  On Monday, we will be paired with a younger child to enjoy reading a good book. On Tuesday - wear sunglasses for "Reading is Cool", Wednesday - wear crazy or mismatched socks for "Wacky Wednesday", Thursday - "Cat in the Hat day" - children can wear any hat and a RED uniform shirt.  On Friday, we will finish our week with "Read My  Shirt!".  Children are encouraged to wear a shirt with words on it that everyone can read.  Of course, these words must be appropriate.  On Monday - Thursday uniforms are still required.

I sent the AR letter home with your child on Tuesday, January 17th.  Your child has until Thursday, March 9th to meet his/her AR goal. Please make sure your child reads every single night for at least 15 minutes.  I cannot stress the importance of this. 

Vocabulary workshop - The children received a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, February 21st.   Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. This week, we will have "Complete the sentence" on Tuesday, February 28th for a minor grade.  On Friday, March 3rd, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.

Literature circle - Your child received his/her literature circle book on Wednesday, January 18th.  They also have their literature circle folder.  Inside the folder there is a paper that shows how much he/she should be reading each week. ALL BOOKS SHOULD BE FINISHED THIS WEEK.  ALL the CHILDREN SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE AN AR TEST ON THESE BOOKS. There is also an explanation of the project for this nine weeks.  Please make sure this project is his/her own work, and they are working on it throughout the nine weeks. PROJECT LINK IS ATTACHED AT THE TOP OF THIS NEWSLETTER.

English -    This week, we will work on writing different papers using narrative, persuasive, and informational prompts. We will also work on identifying fragments, complex and compound sentences. We will also begin working on our research paper. 

In spelling, our words will be -  elect, election, tense, tension, react, reaction, confess, confession, decorate, decoration, contribute, contribution, express, expression, imitate, imitation, connect, connection, admire, admiration, fascinate, fascination, construct, construction, and because. The assignments will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 sentences #1 compound, #2 complex, Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a regular spelling test and on Friday, we will have a dictation test. 

Have a wonderful week!!

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Welcome to Week 25 - February 20 - 24, 2023

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will continue, Number the Stars.  This historical fiction novel takes place during WWII.  The main two characters are a young Jewish girl and her protestant friend and how they and their families navigate the Nazi invasion into Poland during WWII.  I think the children will really enjoy this novel.  We will continue to work on text structure.  We will also review comparing and contrasting and cause/effect.  We will have a reading test on chapters 5-8 on Friday, February 24th.  

I sent the AR letter home with your child on Tuesday, January 17th.  Your child has until Thursday, March 9th to meet his/her AR goal. Please make sure your child reads every single night for at least 15 minutes.  I cannot stress the importance of this.  We will begin our nonfiction unit in our social studies books.

Vocabulary workshop - The children will receive a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, February 21st.   Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. This week, we will have "synonyms/antonyms on Thursday, February 23rd.  The following week, we will have "Complete the sentence" on Tuesday, February 28th for a minor grade.  On Friday, March 3rd, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.

Literature circle - Your child received his/her literature circle book on Wednesday, January 18th.  They also have their literature circle folder.  Inside the folder there is a paper that shows how much he/she should be reading each week. ALL BOOKS SHOULD BE FINISHED THIS WEEK.  ALL CHILDREN SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE AN AR TEST ON THESE BOOKS. There is also an explanation of the project for this nine weeks.  Please make sure this project is his/her own work, and they are working on it throughout the nine weeks. PROJECT LINK IS ATTACHED AT THE TOP OF THIS NEWSLETTER.

English -    On Monday, we will continue chapter 12 in our English books.  We will learn about pattern 2, direct objects, subject-verb agreement, and principal parts of verbs.  We will continue to work on compound/complex sentences.  We will have a test on Monday, February 20th. We will work on writing the remainder of the week, including fragments, complex and compound sentences. 

In spelling, our words will be -  mislead, dismiss, insincere, unable, indirect, mistreat, disaster, dishonest, insecure, unknown, incomplete, unequal, unstable, misspell, disagree, informal, discover, unwise, mislaid, disgrace, invisible, mishap, unfortunate, discourage, and unnecessary. The assignments will be Monday - 3x each, Wednesday - 10 sentences #1 compound, #2 complex, Thursday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Friday, we will have a regular spelling test. We will NOT have an assignment Tuesday night due to the Bingo Bash.  We hope everyone can attend!!

Have a wonderful week!!

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Welcome to Week 24 - February 13 - 17, 2023

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will begin a new novel, Number the Stars.  This historical fiction novel takes place during WWII.  The main two characters are a young Jewish girl and her protestant friend and how they and their families navigate the Nazi invasion into Poland during WWII.  I think the children will really enjoy this novel.  We will continue to work on text structure.  We will also review comparing and contrasting.  We will have a reading test on chapters 1-4 on Friday, February 17th.  

I sent the AR letter home with your child on Tuesday, January 17th.  Your child has until Thursday, March 9th to meet his/her AR goal. Please make sure your child reads every single night for at least 15 minutes.  I cannot stress the importance of this.  We will begin our nonfiction unit in our social studies books.

Vocabulary workshop - The children will received a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, February 7th.   Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. This week, we will have "Complete the sentence" on Wednesday, February 15th for a minor grade.  It will be Wednesday due to school being out on Monday, February 13th. On Friday, February 17th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.

Literature circle - Your child received his/her literature circle book on Wednesday, January 18th.  They also have their literature circle folder.  Inside the folder there is a paper that shows how much he/she should be reading each week. There is also an explanation of the project for this nine weeks.  Please make sure this project is his/her own work, and they are working on it throughout the nine weeks. PROJECT LINK IS ATTACHED AT THE TOP OF THIS NEWSLETTER.

English -    On Monday, we will continue chapter 12 in our English books.  We will learn about pattern 2, direct objects, subject-verb agreement, and principal parts of verbs.  We will continue to work on compound/complex sentences. We will have a quiz on this chapter on Friday, February 17th.  We will have a test the following Monday, February 20th. 

In spelling, our words will be - entry, limit, talent, disturb, entire, wisdom, dozen, impress, respond, fortress, neglect, patrol, kitchen, forbid, pirate, spinach, adopt, frighten, surround, challenge, adapt, refuge, distribute, industry, and somber.  The assignments will be Tuesday - 3x each, Wednesday - 10 sentences #1 compound, #2 complex, Thursday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Friday, we will have a regular spelling test. 

Have a wonderful week!!

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Welcome to Week 23 - February 6 - 10, 2023

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will study chapter 19.  This takes us through the 1980s to the present.  We will continue to focus on text structures and the different types of structures.  We will continue learning about text features. I think the children are really enjoying studying this part of history.  We will have a test on text structure on  Thursday, February 9th.  

I sent the AR letter home with your child on Tuesday, January 17th.  Your child has until Thursday, March 9th to meet his/her AR goal. Please make sure your child reads every single night for at least 15 minutes.  I cannot stress the importance of this.  We will begin our nonfiction unit in our social studies books.

Vocabulary workshop - The children will receive a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, February 7th.   Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. This week, we will have a minor grade on "synonyms and antonyms" on Thursday, February 9th.  The following week, we will have "Complete the sentence" on Wednesday, February 15th for a minor grade.  It will be Wednesday due to school being out on Monday, February 13th. On Friday, February 17th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.

Literature circle - Your child received his/her literature circle book on Wednesday, January 18th.  They also have their literature circle folder.  Inside the folder there is a paper that shows how much he/she should be reading each week. There is also an explanation of the project for this nine weeks.  Please make sure this project is his/her own work, and they are working on it throughout the nine weeks. PROJECT LINK IS ATTACHED AT THE TOP OF THIS NEWSLETTER.

English -    On Monday, we will begin chapter 12 in our English books.  We will learn about pattern 2, direct objects, subject-verb agreement, and principal parts of verbs.  We will continue to work on compound/complex sentences. 

In spelling, our words will be - NO WORDS!  I want to take this week to get caught up on a few things, work on some writing in class, and allow students time to read and work on their AR goal and their IReady goal.  Please make your children use this time he/she would normally spend on spelling wisely!!

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 22 - January 30 - February 3, 2023

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will study chapter 18.  This takes us through WWI, WWII, and Women's Rights.  We will continue to focus on text structures and the different types of structures.  We will continue learning about text features. I think the children are really enjoying studying this part of history.  We will have a test on chapter 18 on Friday, February 3rd. 

I sent the AR letter home with your child on Tuesday, January 17th.  Your child has until Thursday, March 9th to meet his/her AR goal. Please make sure your child reads every single night for at least 15 minutes.  I cannot stress the importance of this.  We will begin our nonfiction unit in our social studies books.

Vocabulary workshop - The children received a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, January 24th.  Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. This week, we will have "Complete the sentence" on Tuesday, January 31st, for a minor grade.  On Friday, February 3rd, for a major grade.

Literature circle - Your child received his/her literature circle book on Wednesday, January 18th.  They also have their literature circle folder.  Inside the folder there is a paper that shows how much he/she should be reading each week. There is also an explanation of the project for this nine weeks.  Please make sure this project is his/her own work, and they are working on it throughout the nine weeks. 

English -    On Monday, we will begin chapter 12 in our English books.  We will learn about pattern 2, direct objects, subject-verb agreement, and principal parts of verbs.  We will continue to work on compound/complex sentences. 

In spelling, our words will be - nature, certain, future, villain, mountain, mixture, pleasure, captain, departure, surgeon, texture, curtain, creature, treasure, gesture, fountain, furniture, measure, feature, adventure, leisure, sculpture, architecture, chieftain, and enclosure. The assignments will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 sentences (#1 should be compound, #2 complex), Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study for the test. On Thursday we will have a spelling test.  We will NOT have a dictation test this week.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 21 - January 23 - 27, 2023

We are out of school on Monday, January 16th, in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will study chapter 15.  This takes us through the Civil War.  We will continue to focus on text features.  I think the children are really enjoying studying this part of history.  We will have a test on chapter 15 on Friday, January 27th. 

I sent the AR letter home with your child on Tuesday, January 17th.  Your child has until Thursday, March 9th to meet his/her AR goal. Please make sure your child reads every single night for at least 15 minutes.  I cannot stress the importance of this.  We will begin our nonfiction unit in our social studies books.

Vocabulary workshop - The children will receive a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, January 24th.  We will read the story and study the vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms on that day.  Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. We will have "synonyms/antonyms on Thursday, January 26th for a minor grade. The following week, we will have "Complete the sentence" on Tuesday, January 31st, for a minor grade.  On Friday, February 3rd, we will have a test on these words. 

Literature circle - Your child received his/her literature circle book on Wednesday, January 18th.  They also have their literature circle folder.  Inside the folder there is a paper that shows how much he/she should be reading each week. There is also an explanation of the project for this nine weeks.  Please make sure this project is his/her own work, and they are working on it throughout the nine weeks. 

English -    We will continue chapter 11 this week. On Wednesday, we will have a quiz on these words, and on Thursday, we will have a test for a major grade.   

In spelling, our words will be - salsa, mattress, tycoon, burrito, bandana, tomato, poncho, dungarees, lasso, patio, siesta, cargo, vanilla, tsunami, iguana, plaza, caravan, hammock, pajamas, gallant, mosquito, cathedral, alligator, tambourine, and sombrero. The assignments will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 sentences (#1 should be compound, #2 complex), Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study for the test. On Thursday we will have a spelling test, and on Friday, we will have a dictation test.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 20 - January 16 - 20, 2023

We are out of school on Monday, January 16th, in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - I will send the AR letter home with your child on Tuesday, January 17th.  Your child has until Thursday, March 9th to meet his/her AR goal. Please make sure your child reads every single night for at least 15 minutes.  I cannot stress the importance of this.  We will begin our nonfiction unit in our social studies books. We will learn about text features and text structure over the next 4 weeks, and will take our social studies book from chapter 14 - the beginning of the Civil War through chapter 19 - The Civil Rights movement. We will learn about how the rights of many people have been violated and fought for throughout the years.  We will discuss women's rights, civil rights, religious freedoms, the right to a free education, etc.  If you have any ideas or resources you'd be willing to share, please let me know. We will have a quiz on chapter 14 on Friday, January 20th. 

Vocabulary workshop - The children will have a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, January 10th.  We will read the story and study the vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms on that day.  Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. We will have "Complete the sentence" on WEDNESDAY 1/18 for a minor grade (Wednesday due to being off on Monday 1/16).  We will have a test on these words Friday, 1/20. 

Literature circle - We will vote on our literature circle books on Friday.  Your child will be given his/her book the following Wednesday, January 18th.  Your child will receive his/her book and folder showing them how much they should be reading each week. 

English -    We will begin chapter 11 on Tuesday.  We will learn about interjections. We will begin working on a narrative with dialogue. 

In spelling, our words will be lately, settlement, watchful, countless, steadily, closeness, calmly, government, agreement, cloudiness, delightful, noisily, tardiness, forgetful, forgiveness, harmless, enjoyment, appointment, effortless, plentiful, suspenseful, merciless, seriousness, contentment, and suspiciously. The assignments will be Tuesday - 3x each, Wednesday - 10 sentences (#1 should be compound, #2 complex), Thursday - spelling worksheet and study for the test. On Friday we will have a spelling test. We will NOT have a dictation test this week due to the short week. 

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 19 - January 9 - 13, 2023

I hate that I wasn't at school to start the New Year, but I'm looking forward to Monday!

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - We will have STAR tests this week.  Your child will need to show growth from the last STAR test.  The way they show growth is to continually read.  I cannot stress the importance of this.  Every child should be reading at least 15 minutes a night.  We will begin our nonfiction unit in our social studies books. We will learn about text features and text structure over the next 4-5 weeks, and will take our social studies book from chapter 14 - the beginning of the Civil War through chapter 19 - The Civil Rights movement. We will learn about how the rights of many people have been violated and fought for throughout the years.  We will discuss women's rights, civil rights, religious freedoms, the right to a free education, etc.  If you have any ideas or resources you'd be willing to share, please let me know. We will have a quiz on chapter 14 on Friday. We will also have ELS testing this week.  The ELA test will be on Wednesday.  Growth is the goal. 

Vocabulary workshop will start back this week. The children will have a new story and vocabulary words on Tuesday, January 10th.  We will read the story and study the vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms on that day.  Every day for the next two weeks, we will review the words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. On Thursday, 1/12, we will have a synonym/antonym worksheet for a minor grade.  The following week, we will have "Complete the sentence" on WEDNESDAY 1/18 for a minor grade (Wednesday due to being off on Monday 1/16).  We will have a test on these words Friday, 1/20. 

Literature circle - We will vote on our literature circle books on Friday.  Your child will be given his/her book the following Wednesday, January 18th.  

English -    We will begin chapter 10 on Monday.  We will learn about punctuating dialogue, homonyms/homophones, and contractions. We will continue to work on our opinion-writing pieces. These will be due on Friday, January 13th.

In spelling, our words will be duties, earlier, loveliest, denied, ferries, sunnier, terrified, abilities, dirtier, scariest, trophies, dozier, enemies, iciest, greediest, drowsier, victories, horrified, memories, strategies, unified, dictionaries, boundaries, satisfied, and tragedies.  The assignments will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 sentences (#1 should be compound, #2 complex), Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study for the test. On Thursday, we will have a spelling test, and on Friday, we will have a dictation test. 

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 19 - December 19 - 20, 2022

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! December 19th is pajama day.  Wear your comfortable
Christmas pajamas to school.  On Tuesday, we will have Christmas parties will be from 10 - 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 20th.  

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - The next two days are going to be filled with Christmas stories and activities.  Over the Christmas break, please continue to encourage your child to read a few minutes each night.

Literature circle - The children did a great job presenting their projects!  I am glad so many of them found books they enjoyed.  Many have asked me when we were choosing books for the next nine weeks.

English -    The chapter 9 test will be Monday, December 19th.  This will be the last grade of this nine weeks.  We will continue working on revising our opinion piece and will also write some Christmas stories.  I plan on finishing the opinion piece when we return in the New Year. 

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 18 - December 11 - 16, 2022

         Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will slow down a bit.  We will read many Christmas stories.  I have fun activites planned with these stories.  The last story we will read this week is "The Polar Express".  We will watch "The Polar Express" movie on Friday and compare/contrast the book to the movie.  We will continue to work on character traits and comparing and contrasting characters and events.  We will NOT have a reading test this week, but I will take a few minor grades on the Christmas books we are reading. 

Literature circle - The children will continue presenting their projects this week.  This is a major grade.

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  This grade will be recorded this week.  This is an average of the six fluency grades.

Vocabulary workshop - Your child received new vocabulary workshop story and words on Tuesday, November 29th.  We will review these words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms each day.  On Wednesday, December 14th, your child will take the test on Unit 8 words for a major grade. 

English -    This week, we will continue chapter 9 and learn about helping verbs.  We will have a quiz on chapter 9 on Thursday, December 15th. On Friday, December 16th, we will take a test on chapter 9 for a major grade. We will continue writing a new piece.  We will be reading passages and writing an opinion piece.  The children will read two passages with differing opinions.  They will then give their own opinion in the piece using information from the passages to support their opinion. We "Tag'ed" each other's papers last week. This week revised papers will be due on Wednesday, December 6th.  I will help the children revise these papers.  The following week on Thursday, December 15th, the final papers will be due for a major grade.  We will also continue to learn about compound and complex sentences.   

Spelling - Our words this week are: tiring, borrowed, freezing, delivered, whispered, losing, decided, amazing, performing, resulting, related, attending, damaged, remarked, practicing, supported, united, expected, amusing, repeated, assigned, entertaining, operated, rehearsing, and donated. The assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 spelling sentences. The first sentence needs to be compound, and the second needs to be complex.  On Wednesday, we will have a spelling worksheet.  On Thursday, we will have a test, and on Friday there will be a dictation test.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 17 - December 5 - 9, 2022

**If you don't always read the entire page, please do so.  There are some changes to the regular schedule with vocabulary workshop.  This week we will go to the BPAC to see "The Night Before Christmas" on Tuesday.  We also have IReady mid-year assessments on Wednesday (math) and on Thursday (ELA).  Every child needs to show growth.                    I

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - We will finish our novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham.  All of the students will have their own novel to take home.  The novels MUST be brought back to class each day.  We will read chapters 14 - the end this week.  We will review point of view and figurative language.  We will continue to work on character traits and comparing and contrasting characters and events.  We will have a quiz on these chapters Friday, December 9, 2022.

Literature circle - Literature circle projects are due Wednesday, December 7th.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Every child will present his/her project this week.  

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop - Your child received new vocabulary workshop story and words on Tuesday, November 29th.  We will review these words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms each day.  On Friday December 9th, your child will take "complete the sentence" for a minor grade.  The following week, on Wednesday, December 14th, your child will take the test on Unit 8 words for a major grade. This change is due to the mid-year assessments in IReady this week. 

English -    This week, we will begin chapter 9 and learn about helping verbs.  We will continue writing a new writing piece.   We will be reading passages and writing an opinion piece.  The children will read two passages with differing opinions.  They will then give their own opinion in the piece using information from the passages to support their opinion. We "Tag'ed" each other's papers last week. This week revised papers will be due on Wednesday, December 6th.  I will help the children revise these papers.  The following week on Thursday, December 15th, the final papers will be due for a major grade.  We will also continue to learn about compound and complex sentences.   

Spelling - Our words this week are: scrubbed, listening, stunned, knitting, carpeting, wandered, gathering, beginning, skimmed, chatting, shrugged, bothering, whipped, quizzed, suffering, scanned, ordered, totaled, answered, upsetting, compelling, deposited, occurred, threatening, and canceled. The assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - spelling worksheet.  On Thursday, we will have a test.  There will be NO spelling sentences or dictation this week due to all of the extra things happening.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 16 - November 28 - December 2, 2022

                     IF you haven't celebrated Thanksgiving with your family yet, please close this page!  Enjoy the holidays with your family. We've all worked hard and need a break!!

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - We will continue our novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham.  All of the students will have their own novel to take home.  The novels MUST be brought back to class each day.  We will read chapters 12 - 13 this week.  We will review point of view and figurative language.  We will continue to work on character traits and comparing and contrasting characters and events.  We will have a quiz on these chapters Friday, December 2, 2022.

Literature circle - The children have their literature circle folders, their assignments, and their books.  The assignments will be due every single Wednesday.  The children MUST be reading at home.  This book will be read at home.  The assignment will be completed at home. It will be discussed during literature circles each week.  These assignments are EASY, but the chapters must be read to complete the assignments and discuss the book during lit. circle time. All books should be finished by this Wednesday, November 30th.  The following week, everyone should be working on their project.  Projects are due Wednesday, December 7th. 

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop - Your child will get a new vocabulary workshop story and words on Tuesday, November 29th.  We will review these words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms each day.  On Thursday, December 1st, we will have a grade on synonyms and antonyms.  The following week, we will have "complete the sentence" on Tuesday, December 6th.  The following Friday, December 9th, we will have a test on these words.

English -    This week, we will continue writing a new writing piece.   We will be reading passages and writing an opinion piece.  The children will read two passages with differing opinions.  They will then give their own opinion in the piece using information from the passages to support their opinion. The rough drafts will be due on Wednesday, November 30th. The children will "TAG" each other's papers on that day. We will also continue to learn about compound and complex sentences.   

Spelling - Our words this week are: formal, whistle, label, puzzle, legal, angle, normal, needle, angel, pupil, struggle, level, local, bicycle, channel, global, stumble, quarrel, article, fossil, identical, vehicle, mineral, colonel, and artificial. The assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 spelling sentences (all sentences need to be AT LEAST 7 words and the first one MUST be a compound sentence and the second MUST be a complex sentence), Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a spelling test. On Friday, there will not be a dictation test.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 15 - November 14 - 18, 2022

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - We will continue our novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham.  All of the students will have their own novel to take home.  The novels MUST be brought back to class each day.  We will read chapters 9 - 11 this week.  We will review point of view and figurative language.  We will continue to work on character traits and comparing and contrasting characters and events.  We will have a quiz on these chapters Friday, November 17, 2022.

Literature circle - The children have their literature circle folders, their assignments, and their books.  The assignments will be due every single Wednesday.  The children MUST be reading at home.  This book will be read at home.  The assignment will be completed at home. It will be discussed during literature circles each week.  These assignments are EASY, but the chapters must be read to complete the assignments and discuss the book during lit. circle time. 

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop - We will NOT have vocabulary workshop this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.  I don't want our children to have to worry about vocabulary words during the break.  We've all worked hard and could use a break!

English -    This week, we will continue writing a new writing piece.   We will be reading passages and writing an opinion piece.  The children will read two passages with differing opinions.  They will then give their own opinion in the piece using information from the passages to support their opinion. The rough drafts will be due on Thursday, November 17th.  The children will "TAG" each other's papers on that day. We will also continue to learn about compound and complex sentences.   

Spelling - Our words this week are: actual, cruel, patriot, diet, museum, casual, ruin, pioneer, trial, visual, realize, create, riot, genuine, area, annual, audio, dial, theater, influence, diagnose, media, appreciate, society, and prior. The assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 spelling sentences (all sentences need to be AT LEAST 7 words and the first one MUST be a compound sentence and the second MUST be a complex sentence), Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a spelling test. On Friday, there will not be a dictation test.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 14 - November 7 -  11, 2022

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - We will begin a new novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham.  All of the students will have their own novel to take home.  The novels MUST be brought back to class each day.  We will read chapters 5-8 this week.  We will work on point of view.  We will continue to work on character traits and comparing and contrasting characters and events.  We will have a quiz on these chapters Friday, November 11, 2022.

Literature circle - The children have their literature circle folders, their assignments, and their books.  The assignments will be due every single Wednesday.  The children MUST be reading at home.  This book will be read at home.  The assignment will be completed at home. It will be discussed during literature circles each week.  These assignments are EASY, but the chapters must be read to complete the assignments and discuss the book during lit. circle time. 

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop - The students received a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, November 1st.  We will read the story and go over the vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms on Tuesday.  Each day we will review the vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms each day.  This week, on Tuesday, November 8th, we will have "complete the sentence" for a grade.  On Friday, November 11th, we will take a test on these words. 

English -    This week, we will continue chapter 7 and learn about conjunctions.  On Tuesday, November 8th, we will have a quiz on this chapter.  On  Wednesday, November 9th, we will have a test on this chapter for a major grade.  We will begin chapter 8 on Friday and learn about opinion writing and write an opinion paper from a prompt. 

Spelling - Our words this week are: conflict, orphan, instant, complex, simply, burglar, laundry, laughter, employ, anchor, merchant, improve, arctic, mischief, childhood, purchase, dolphin, partner, complain, tremble, anthem, illustrate, function, conscience, and apostrophe. The assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 spelling sentences (all sentences need to be AT LEAST 7 words and the first two MUST contain a prepositional phrase), Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a spelling test. On Friday, we will have a dictation test.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 13 - October 31 - November 4, 2022

Thank you to all the parents who sent candy for our party. 

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - We will begin a new novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham.  All of the students will have their own novel to take home.  The novels MUST be brought back to class each day.  We will read chapters 1-4 this week.  We will work on fact and opinion, character traits, and figurative language. We will have a quiz on these chapters Friday, November 4, 2022.

The children have their literature circle folders, their assignments, and their books.  The assignments will be due every single Wednesday.  The children MUST be reading at home.  This book will be read at home.  The assignment will be completed at home. It will be discussed during literature circles each week.  These assignments are EASY, but the chapters must be read to complete the assignments and discuss the book during lit. circle time. 

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop - The students will receive a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, November 1st.  We will read the story and go over the vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms on Tuesday.  Each day we will review the vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms each day.  On Thursday, November 3rd, we will have a grade on synonyms and antonyms.  The following week, on Tuesday, November 8th, we will have "complete the sentence" for a grade.  That Friday, November 11th, we will take a test on these words. 

English -    On Monday, October 31st, we will complete our haunted house descriptive writing paper.  We will complete our drawing of the house.  On Tuesday, November 1st, we will begin chapter 7 on conjunctions and compound parts.

Spelling - Our words this week are: human, exact, award, behave, credit, basic, vivid, evil, modern, nation, robot, panic, select, cousin, item, police, prefer, menu, novel, deserve, autumn, nuisance, logic, column, and laser.  The assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 spelling sentences (all sentences need to be AT LEAST 7 words and the first two MUST contain a prepositional phrase), Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a spelling test. On Friday, we will have a dictation test.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 12 - October 24 - 28, 2022

**Our Halloween party will be held on Friday, October 28th!! Our homeroom mom will be getting in touch with you. 

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, the AR information will be sent home on Tuesday, October 25th, with the signed papers. We will have ELS testing this week.  The students need to show growth.  We will be testing on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Miss Mallette will be teaching her unit on figurative language the entire week.  We will NOT have a story this week.  I will be reading chapters of Crash, practicing literature circle roles, and taking AR tests. 

The children have their literature circle folders, their assignments, and their books.  The assignments will be due every single Wednesday.  The children MUST be reading at home.  This book will be read at home.  The assignment will be completed at home. It will be discussed during literature circles each week.  These assignments are EASY, but the chapters must be read to complete the assignments and discuss the book during lit. circle time. 

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop - We will review the vocabulary, synonyms, and antonyms each day.   This week, on Wednesday, October 24th, we will take "complete the sentence" for a minor grade.  This will be taken on Wednesday due to the ELA ELS test on Tuesday.  On Friday, October 28th, we will have the Unit 6 test for a major grade.  

English -   We will begin working on chapter 6 and learn more about descriptive writing.  We will continue writing a descriptive paper about our haunted house.  We will also review English skills previously learned.

Spelling - Our words this week are: bargain, journey, pattern, arrive object, suppose, shoulder, permit, sorrow, tunnel, subject, custom, suggest, perhaps, lawyer, timber, common, publish, burden, scissors, narrate, mentor, attempt, collide, and ignore. The assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 spelling sentences (all sentences need to be AT LEAST 7 words and the first two MUST contain a prepositional phrase), Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a spelling test. On Friday, we will have a dictation test.

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 11 - October 17 - 21, 2022

**Report cards will be sent home on Thursday, October 13th.  We are out of school 10/14 and 10/17 for fall break.  ENJOY the break!!

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will take our STAR test for the second nine weeks.  Information about this will be sent home.  Your child will be able to start reading and testing for the second nine weeks of school as soon as STAR testing is complete.  We will be reading, Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? This is in our reading books. This week our focus is fact and opinion. We will have a quiz on this story on Friday, October 21st.

I will go back and constantly review all reading skills throughout the year.  We will continue to practice literature circle roles.  Books were given to the students Wednesday, October 9th. The children have their literature circle folders, their assignments, and their books.  The assignments will be due every single Wednesday.  The children MUST be reading at home.  This book will be read at home.  It will be discussed during literature circles each week.  

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop - The children will receive a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, October 18th.  We will read the story using the words in context on Tuesday.  We will review the vocabulary, synonyms, and antonyms each day.  On Thursday, October 20th, we will have "synonyms/antonyms" for a grade.  The following week on Tuesday, October 24th, we will take "complete the sentence" for a minor grade, and on Friday, October 28th, we will have the Unit 6 test for a major grade.  

English -  This week, we will work take the quiz on chapter 5 on Tuesday, October 18th and the test on Wednesday, October 19th.  We will begin working on chapter 6 and learn more about descriptive writing.  We will begin describing our "haunted" house on Friday, October 21st.  

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: cellar, flavor, cougar, chapter, mayor, anger, senator, passenger, major, popular, tractor, thunder, pillar, border, calendar, quarter, lunar, proper, elevator, bitter, stellar, clamor, tremor, circular, and adviser. The assignments this week will be Tuesday - 3x each, Wednesday - 10 spelling sentences (all sentences need to be AT LEAST 7 words and the first two MUST contain a prepositional phrase), Thursday- spelling worksheet and study.  On Friday, we will have a spelling test. 

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 10 - October 10 - 14, 2022

**Report cards will be sent home on Thursday, October 13th.  We are out of school 10/14 and 10/17 for fall break.  ENJOY the break!!

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - This week, we will take our STAR test for the second nine weeks.  Information about this will be sent home.  Your child will be able to start reading and testing for the second nine weeks of school as soon as STAR testing is complete.  We will be reading, Birchbark House. This is in our reading books. This week our focus is comparing and contrasting two different stories in the same genre.  The students will have to identify the genre, theme, characters, etc., in the two stories, and then tell how the two stories are alike and different. We will have a quiz on this story on Thursday, October 13th.

I will go back and constantly review all reading skills throughout the year.  We will continue to practice literature circle roles.  More information about this will be sent home soon.  We will start literature circles in the second nine weeks of school. The children will vote on the book they want to read in literature circles this week. 

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop - The children received a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, October 4th.  We will read the story, discuss the vocabulary and how the words are used in context, synonyms, and antonyms.  Every day we will review the words, definitions, synonyms, and antonyms.  This week, on Tuesday, October 11th, we will have a minor grade from "complete the sentence", and on Thursday, October 13th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.  We will take this test on Thursday because our fall break will begin on Friday. 

English -  This week, the final narrative paper will be due on Tuesday, October 11th.  This is for a major grade.  The final paper will need to be turned in with the thinking map, rough draft, and revised copy.  We will work from chapter 5 and learn about pronouns. We will also learn about possessive and reflexive pronouns and collective nouns. We will have a quiz on these words on Thursday, October 13th. 

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: wildlife, uproar, home run, headache, top-secret, teammate, wheelchair, light bulb, well-known, throughout, life preserver, barefoot, part-time, warehouse, overboard, post office, outspoken, up-to-date, awestruck, newscast, motorcycle, overseas, quick-witted, stomachache, and bulletin board. Your child will need to know which words are written all together, which have hyphens, and which have a space in between the two words.  The assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - 10 spelling sentences (all sentences need to be AT LEAST 7 words), Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study.  On Thursday, we will have a spelling test. 

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 9 -  October 3 - 7, 2022

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you! 

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom. 

**IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. Your child can do this at home and needs to complete 45 minutes in each subject, plus 2 lessons each and every week.  This is a MAJOR grade.  Please make sure your child is doing this.

Reading - We have finished Maniac Magee, and all children were able to take an AR test if they wanted to. This week, we'll read Eliza's Diary.  This is in our reading books. This week our focus is theme. I will go back and constantly review all reading skills throughout the year. We will have a test on this story, Friday, October 7th. We will continue to practice literature circle roles.  More information about this will be sent home soon.  We will start literature circles in the second nine weeks of school. The children will vote on the book they want to read in literature circles this week. 

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop -  The children will receive a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, October 4th.  We will read the story, discuss the vocabulary and how the words are used in context, synonyms, and antonyms.  Every day we will review the words, definitions, synonyms, and antonyms.  This week, on Thursday, October 6th, the children will take "synonyms/antonyms" for a minor grade.  The following week on Tuesday, October 11th, we will have a minor grade from "complete the sentence", and on Thursday, October 13th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.  We will take this test on Thursday because our fall break will begin on Friday. 

English -  This week, we will continue with chapter 4 and learn about writing a narrative paper. We will learn the qualities that go into writing good papers including organization, voice, main idea, grammar and mechanics. The rough draft will be "tag'd" on Monday, October 3rd.  The revised paper will be due on Thursday, October 6th.  On Friday, October 7th, we will begin chapter 5 and learn about pronouns. 

Spelling - We are taking a week's break and working on getting IReady and our writing papers finished. 

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 7 - September 19 - 23, 2022

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you!

**We will have OPEN HOUSE on Monday, September 19th from 6-8.  This will be a "come and go" event.  Please come and see what your child's been doing so far this year.

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom.  IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. 

Reading - We will continue reading from our first novel.  This novel is called "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli.  Please ask your children about it.  They are really enjoying this book.  We will read chapters 33 - 39.  The chapters are ONLY 2-3 pages long each. These novels can be brought home and reread.  Please encourage your child to do this. This week our focus skills are theme and main idea and supporting details. I will go back and constantly review all reading skills throughout the year. We will have a quiz on this part of the novel Friday, September 23rd.  

We will be working hard this year and reading many, many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop -  The children will receive a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, September 20th.  We will read the story, discuss the vocabulary and how the words are used in context, synonyms, and antonyms.  Every day we will review the words, definitions, synonyms, and antonyms.  This week, on Thursday, September 22nd, your child will take synonyms/antonyms for a minor grade. The following week on Tuesday, September 27th, we will have a minor grade from "complete the sentence", and on Friday, September 30th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.  

English -  We will continue chapter 3, which is a review of prepositions.  We will have a test on chapter 4 on Tuesday, September 20th.  We will begin chapter 4 on Thursday.  We will continue writing our first short paper.  This week, we will write a final copy of our paragraph and begin writing our first narrative paper. 

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: earth, peer, twirl, burnt, smear, further, appear, worthwhile, nerve, pier, squirm, weary, alert, murmur, thirsty, reverse, worship, career, research, volunteer, yearn, engineer, interpret, dreary, and external. Our assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - spelling worksheet, Wednesday - 10 sentences (each sentence MUST be at least 7 words), and study.  On Thursday, we will have our regular spelling test.  We will NOT have a dictation test this week. 

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 6 - September 12 - 16, 2022

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

 Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you!

**We will have OPEN HOUSE on Monday, September 19th from 6-8.  This will be a "come and go" event.  Please come and see what your child's been doing so far this year.

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom.  IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. 

Reading - We will continue reading from our first novel.  This novel is called "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli.  Please ask your children about it.  They are really enjoying this book.  We will read chapters 22 - 32.  The chapters are ONLY 2-3 pages long each.  This week our focus skills are main idea and supporting details. I will go back and constantly review all reading skills throughout the year. We will have a quiz on this part of the novel Friday, September 16th.  

We will be working hard this year and reading many,  many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop -  The children received a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, September 6th.  We will read the story, discuss the vocabulary and how the words are used in context, synonyms, and antonyms.  Every day we will review the words, definitions, synonyms, and antonyms.  This week, on Tuesday, September 13th, we will have a minor grade from "complete the sentence", and on Friday, September 16th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.  

English -  We will continue chapter 3, which is a review of prepositions.  We will discuss prepositions and prepositional phrases. We will have a quiz on Friday, September 16th. We will continue writing our first short paper.  We will "TAG" the writing on Thursday and work on writing the revised paper.  When we "TAG", we T- tell something we like, A - ask a question, and G - give advice to help our friends improve their paper. 

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: glory, aware, carton, adore, aboard, dairy, ordeal, pardon, warn, vary, barely, torch, barge, soar, beware, absorb, armor, stairway, perform, former, discard, forfeit, orchestra, rarity, and hoard. Our assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - spelling worksheet, Wednesday - 10 sentences (each sentence MUST be at least 7 words), and study.  On Thursday, we will have our regular spelling test, and on Friday, we will have a dictation test.   

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 5 - September 5 - 9, 2022

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

 Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you!

** Enjoy your long weekend!  The children have worked HARD and deserve a break!

Progress reports will be sent home Wednesday, September 7th.  

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom.  IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. 

Reading - We will be reading from our first novel.  This novel is called "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli.  It is a wonderful book, and I feel like the children will LOVE it!  We will read chapters 12 - 21.  The chapters are ONLY 2-3 pages long each.  This week our focus skill will continue to be comparing and contrasting. We will begin to compare events - fiction to nonfiction.  We will also compare and contrast events within the story.  I will go back and constantly review all reading skills throughout the year. We will have a quiz on this part of the novel Friday, September 8th.  

We will be working hard this year and reading many,  many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop -  The children will receive a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, September 6th.  We will read the story, discuss the vocabulary and how the words are used in context, synonyms, and antonyms.  Every day we will review the words, definitions, synonyms, and antonyms.  On Thursday, September 8th, we will have synonyms and antonyms for a minor grade.  The following week, on Tuesday, September 12th, we will have a minor grade from "complete the sentence", and on Friday, September 16th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.  

English -  We will continue chapter 2, which is a review of simple subject, simple predicate, adjectives, and article adjectives.  We will have a test on this chapter on Wednesday, September 7th.  On Thursday, we will begin chapter 3, which is a review of prepositions.  We will discuss prepositions and prepositional phrases. We will continue writing our first short paper.  We will "TAG" the writing on Thursday and work on writing the revised paper.  When we "TAG", we T- tell something we like, A - ask a question, and G - give advice to help our friends improve their paper. 

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: ounce, sprawl, launch, loyal, avoid, basketball, moist, haunt, scowl, naughty, destroy, saucer, pounce, poison, August, auction, royal, coward, awkward, encounter, poise, loiter, exhaust, assault, and alternate.  Our assignments this week will be Tuesday - 3x each, day - spelling worksheet, Wednesday - spelling worksheet, Thursday - 10 sentences (each sentence MUST be at least 7 words).  On Friday, we will have our regular spelling test. We will NOT have a dictation test this week.  

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 4 - August 29 - September 2, 2022

                      Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

 Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you!

** Reminder - Crocs are NOT allowed.  Sandals can be worn with a back strap, but crocs are never allowed. Belts must be worn.  Thank you!

We are finished with "beginning of the year" testing!!

*Summer reading for new students was recorded over the weekend.  The students were given a great deal of advance  notification.  The books were online, and they were given the opportunity in class to read and answer the questions.

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom.  IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. 

Reading - We will be reading from our first novel.  This novel is called "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli.  It is a wonderful book, and I feel like the children will LOVE it!  We will read the first eleven chapters this week.  The chapters are ONLY 2-3 pages long each.  This week our focus skills will continue to be comparing and contrasting. We will begin to compare fiction and non-fiction text.  I will go back and constantly review all reading skills throughout the year. We will have a quiz on this first story on Friday 8/26.   

We will be working hard this year and reading many,  many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop -  The children received a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, August 23rd.   We will review these words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms each day. On Tuesday, August 30th, we will have "complete the sentence" for a minor grade.  On Friday, September 2nd, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.

English -  We will continue chapter 2, which is a review of simple subject, simple predicate, adjectives, and article adjectives.  We will also begin writing a short paper on "My Favorite Part of Me". The rough draft will be due on Wednesday. We will have a quiz on this chapter on Thursday, September 1st. 

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: glue, flute, youth, accuse, bruise, stew, choose, loose, lose, view, confuse, cruise, jewel, execute, route, cartoon, avenue, include, assume, souvenir, conclude, pursuit, intrude, subdue, and presume.  Our assignments this week will be Monday - 3x each, day - spelling worksheet, Wednesday - spelling 10 sentences (each sentence MUST be at least 7 words and study for the test.  On Thursday we will have a spelling test,.  We will NOT have a dictation test this week.  

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 3 - August 22 - 26, 2022

T                       Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

 Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you!

** Reminder - Crocs are NOT allowed.  Sandals can be worn with a back strap, but crocs are never allowed. Belts must be worn.  Thank you!

**TESTING - 8/22 - 8/25 - IReady beginning of the year testing

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down into a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom.  IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. 

Reading - We will be reading from our readers for the first 2-3 weeks.  This week our story is "Off and Running".  Our focus skill will be compare/contrast.  These first 2-3 weeks will just be a review of last year.  I will go back and constantly review all reading skills throughout the year. We will have a quiz on this first story on Friday 8/26.   

We will be working hard this year and reading many,  many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop -  The children will receive a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, August 23rd.   We will review these words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms each day.  On Thursday, August 25th, we will take a minor grade on synonyms/antonyms. On Tuesday, August 30th, we will have "complete the sentence" for a minor grade.  On Friday, September 2nd, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.

English -  We will continue chapter 2, which is a review of simple subject, simple predicate, adjectives, and article adjectives.  We will also begin writing a short paper on "My Favorite Part of Me". 

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: sign, groan, reply, thrown, strike, mighty, stroll, compose, dough, height, excite, apply, slight, define, odor, spider, control, silent, brighten, approach, require, reproach, defy, plight, and opponent.  We will NOT have homework on Monday because of the IReady test on Tuesday.  Our assignments this week will be Tuesday - 3x each, Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study for the test.  On Thursday we will have a spelling test, and on Friday, we will have our first dictation test.  

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 2 - August 15 - 19, 2022

T                       Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year. 

 Please check folders every single Tuesday.  We almost always have some kind of information that needs to be read and always have graded papers.  Thank you!

**TESTING - Believe me, I know! STAR results will be sent home Tuesday, August 16th.

8/15 - 8/19 - ELS beginning of the year testing in math, reading, and science

8/22 - 8/25 - IReady beginning of the year testing

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle. We also use water fountains. Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down in a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom.  IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. 

Reading - We will be reading from our readers for the first 2-3 weeks.  This week our story is "Blasting off to Space Academy".  Our focus skill will be text-based elements. These first 2-3 weeks will just be a review of last year.  I will go back and constantly review all reading skills throughout the year. We will have a quiz on this first story on Friday 8/19.   

We will be working hard this year and reading many,  many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop -  The children will receive a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, August 9th.   We will review these words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms each day.  On Tuesday, August 16th, we will have "complete the sentence" for a minor grade.  On Friday, August 19th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.

English -  We will continue chapter 1 in Shurley English.  This is a very easy review on nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. We will have our first test on Tuesday. This should be very easy for everyone.  On Thursday, we will begin chapter 2 which is a review of simple subject and simple predicate.

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: awake, feast, stray, greet, praise, disease, repeat, display, braces, thief, ashamed, sleeve, waist, beneath, sheepish, release, remain, sway, training, niece, terrain, succeed, betray, motivate, and upheaval.  We will NOT have homework on Monday because of the ELS test on Tuesday.  Our assignments this week will be Tuesday - 3x each, Wednesday - spelling worksheet and study for the test.  On Thursday we will have a spelling test, and on Friday, we will have our first dictation test.  

Have a wonderful week!!

Welcome to Week 1 - August 8 - 12, 2022

T                       Welcome to Fifth Grade!!! I'm so glad to have so many children in my classroom this year.  Last year, the room was much too empty!

We passed out fifth grade information packets and test scores at orientation.  If you didn't get yours, they will be sent home on Tuesday.  The fifth grade packet didn't copy correctly.  The corrected version will be sent home on Tuesday. 

**TESTING - Believe me, I know!  I didn't set this schedule, but we all must follow it.  This week, we will be taking the STAR test.  I'll let you know the following week how your child did and what the AR goal is for this nine weeks.  On Friday, August 12th, we will take two AR tests on summer reading.  These tests will be averaged together and put in the gradebook for a minor grade in reading.

8/15 - 8/19 - ELS beginning of the year testing in math, reading, and science

8/22 - 8/25 - IReady beginning of the year testing

5A (Mrs. Flint's homeroom) has P.E. on Thursday and 5B (Mrs. Bray's homeroom) has P.E. on Friday.  Please make sure, at least on those days, your child has tennis shoes on and something cool (shorts, etc.)

***Please make sure your child has a water bottle.  We all use water fountains.  Have his/her name on the water bottle.  Water bottles can be refilled at school. Snacks are sold at school. Your child can ALWAYS bring his/her own snack.  This should be a "snack".  Please don't send a family-sized bag of chips.  

We WILL have homework this year.  Homework will be written on the board and should be copied down in a planner or notebook.  Homework will be checked for completion.  Everyone should read 15 - 20 minutes each night. All INSPIRE students will go to INSPIRE for one hour daily instead of one entire day.  This will give all INSPIRE students more time in the regular classroom.  IReady will be done in class when work/tests are completed and at home.  Additionally, IReady will be worked on during computer class. IReady will still be a monthly grade.  All students should have 45 minutes and 2 lessons passed per subject, per week. 

Reading - We will be reading out of our readers the first 2-3 weeks.  The first story is called "A Package for Mrs. Jewls".  This is a very easy read to get us back into the swing of things.  Our focus skill will be narrative elements. We will have a quiz on this first story on Friday 8/12.   

We will be working hard this year and reading many,  many good books.  Please encourage/force :) your child to read each and every night.  Fifteen minutes a night will make a big difference!  Have them read aloud to you.  This helps with fluency and ultimately will make him/her a better reader. * We will take fluency checks six weeks of each 9 weeks.  These grades will be averaged together to make one major grade at progress report time and at the end of the year.  

Vocabulary workshop -  The children will receive a new vocabulary workshop story and vocabulary on Tuesday, August 9th.   We will review these words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms each day.  This week on Thursday, August 11th, we will take a minor grade on synonyms and antonyms.  The following week on Tuesday, August 16th, we will have "complete the sentence" for a minor grade.  On Friday, August 19th, we will have a test on these words for a major grade.

English -  We will begin working on chapter 1 in Shurley English.  This is a very easy review on nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. 

Spelling - Our spelling words this week are: breath, wobble, blister, crush, direct, promise, grasp, numb, hymn, shovel, gravity, frantic, swift, feather, comic, bundle, solid, weather, energy, stingy, instruct, distress, summit, massive and physical. Our assignments will be Monday - 3x each, Tuesday - spelling worksheet, Wednesday - 10 sentences - each sentence needs to be at least 7 words long and study for the spelling test.  

Have a wonderful week!!