Homework: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
READING: Read every night for 30 minutes. Students must record their reading nightly in the Reading Log given out to all students. Students will write down the pages they read and record two events that happened in story from the pages they read at home on that day/evening. Students will take A/R tests on the books they read. For the 3RD quarter students must read 1 historical fiction, 1 realistic fiction, and 2 free choice. A grade will be given on A/R at the end of the quarter. Students have a book project due on 3-10-17 on a book they read for their A/R goal. They have the rubric in their binders. They are to create a CD and it must include 10 songs which have to do with the plot of the story, one fully written song (poem with chorus), and an illustration! I would suggest students begin working on this project now!
LANGUAGE ARTS: Spelling Menu, each night choose an activity to help learn the spelling words.
Please go to: www.spellingcity.com/csolo0524/
to see the spelling words for the week. We are workign on root words, treating the list as both a word study as well spelling.
All students must read 4 books independently (A/R) for the third nine week period (January-March). We will also read a novel in class. I expect every student to read at home 30 minutes per night. If they are too busy to read on a particular night they must make up for that time the next day or over the weekend. Let's encourage the kids to read as an activity that is valuable and worthwhile! At the end of the nine weeks an individual project will be due, this quarter it is due 3-10.
SOCIAL STUDIES: We have begun studying about the colonization of North America! We will begin with the lost colony of Roanoke and the move onto the Jamestown settlement. After comparing those two original settlements we'll move on to study the New England colonies, the Mid-Atlantic colonies and then the Southern colonies. Our focus will be what finally lead to the American Revolution!
These are my "non-negotiables" for Fifth Grade. Students must be able to spell these correctly in their writing!