A look at the week past and into the week ahead....
As grades are posted this week, encourage your child to check his/her grades and discuss with teachers missing work or low scores. I am happy to talk to students about their grades at a break time.
If your student is having missing or late work, encourage them to write everything in their planner and bring that home each night and check off work as they complete it. Make sure as you work with your student, it is their responsibility to complete the work and return it to school.
5th Grade Literacy: Literature: Students were assigned a reflection journal on Thursday. It is due Monday. They had time in class to work on it, but many took it home to complete. It is on Google Classroom under literature. We will go over the quiz from last week and journals on Monday. We have been working together on much of this, allowing students to add to their answers as we discuss in order to complete the assignments correctly. We went over the quiz answers in class before they turned it in, so they could determine if they were correct or needed to add more details to their answers.
We are beginning the Jack chapters this week in Wonder. We are working on vocabulary together in class. Hopefully on Friday we will be ready to complete a character Word Puzzle on the chrome book.
Students will receive an Independent reading assignment on Tuesday of this week. It will be due on Thursday.
Writing/Spelling/Grammar: We have chosen our new spelling words. Class words are posted on this blog under English. Your child's complete list is on Google classroom under English. We worked on Spelling City this week Thursday with the words. If your student received a score of less than 10 on the Spelling list, that means they need to correct words. They are marked on the document. The test will be this week on Thursday. We will have a spelling assignment on Tuesday of this week.
In writing we are ready to write the draft of our final personal narrative. We will be working on that Monday and Tuesday of this week. As we go through the editing of these stories we will be picking up grammar skills. Look for grammar homework next week.
5th grade social studies: We have completed chapter 2 which is really an introduction to chapter 3 on Native Americans. We did 3 workbook pages together that will be graded. Students were assigned the vocabulary words in their workbook as well. That will be collected and graded this week. There will be no chapter 2 test/quiz. This week we will be working in Expert groups to go over the regions of the US that the Native Americans lived in. Students will work in small groups to become experts on one region. Then they will report the information to a larger group. While we complete this, students will be creating their Origin stories on canvas. Those will hang in the hallways. There should be little or no homework this week in social studies.
6th Grade Literature: I realize that this goes out to all 6th grade students and families. Ms. Stearns and I team teach literature, which means we are completing the same assignments at approximately the same time. However the information in this blog may be slightly different if your student has Ms. Stearns for literature. I am sending it to all 6th grade, since the information is essentially the same.
Students had an independent reading assignment over the weekend that is due on Monday. (Brown teacher). This will be in their Readers notebook.
We will be taking a look the first part of this week at last week's assignments. The character theories were full of flaws and not everyone followed directions. We will also look over last week's quiz. I will allow students to make corrections on these assignments, since they are the first we have done.
Students will be assigned the first reflection journal on Google classroom Mon/Tues of this week. It is due the next class period.
At the end of the week, students will be assigned a sketch of the Seahawk. We will be going over notes about setting, and then sketching the setting of this book. The drawings will need to include a list of things that will be posted on Google classroom. The assignment is worth 25 points and students will have several days to complete it.
We are very much enjoying this book. My class has requested a day just to read from Charlotte Doyle. Again, the book is rich in literary elements, actually combines several genres, and leads to wonderful discussion about the author's craft and the characters themselves.
Blessing on your week,
Mrs. Brown
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