Thanksgiving Week

It is so hard to believe we are at the week of Thanksgiving already.  We have finished all Book clubs and begin new class books this week.

If your family misses extra days over break, please make sure all work is up to date.  We are past the halfway mark in the quarter and time goes very quickly from here to end of quarter.

5th Grade assignments week of Nov. 20-21:
Read chapter one from Sign of the Beaver.  Create a list of 10 questions, predictions etc.. in Reader's notebook
Read up through chapter 4 in Sign of the Beaver for Monday 11/27
Grammar assignment on Chromebook on Monday - due Tuesday
Spelling words on chromebook - Tuesday
Explorer first draft due Monday 11/27

5th Grade Language Arts: Literature:  On Monday we begin reading our next class novel - Sign of the Beaver.  This is an excellent Historical fiction novel that goes hand in hand with our studies of this time period in history. 
**There is a calendar of chapters and assignments posted on this blog under Literature.  Each student also has a copy on Google classroom, literature.  There will be some note taking added to the calendar, but it contains the chapters and major assignments.

Grammar/Spelling:  In this short week we will spend one day on each of these subjects.  Monday will be a review of nouns and a Google Classroom assignment.  Tuesday we will choose new spelling words.  The test will be on Thursday, Nov. 30th.  We work with the words for two weeks.  The last few test scores have had some low grades.  Make sure to review the words with your child before the test.

Writing:  We are currently writing our FIRST draft of the Explorer research project.  We have many weeks to go.  We will be working with these drafts in several ways, completing more research and then discussing the final form.  At this point, most of the work is being done at school.  The draft needs to be completed by Monday, Nov 27, in order to go on to the next step.

5th Grade Social studies
This past week we studied 3 early American settlements, including Jamestown and Plymouth.  This week we will continue to investigate these settlements.  We have been reading from Jean Fritz's The Double Life of Pocahontas.  On Tuesday afternoon we will watch Disney's version of this story in order to make comparisons to the historical account.
The study guide and test will be the week after we return after Thanksgiving. 

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6th Grade Literature:
Book clubs are finished.  The groups did a wonderful job reading the novels and have now developed a collage project and song representing their book to present to the rest of the class. Each student also has an individual book review due on Google classroom either Monday or Tuesday. Just be word of mouth, many students have borrowed  book club books to read other than the one assigned.  All the books will be available for check-out to read along with many of the sequels.
Grades for this unit are totaled and on Educate.  If your child has any missing work from this unit it should be made up immediately for a late grade, before moving on.

Monday/Tuesday we are moving on to our next class book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.  This book will allow us to investigate Plot more in depth and look at the 3 main types of literary conflict.  There will be a calendar posted for Aday and Bday on my blog.  Each student will have a calendar on google classroom.  It does not contain every assignment, but the chapters due and most major assignments are posted on the calendar which takes us until Christmas.  Please remember - the assignments listed are what we are doing in class that day.  DO NOT have your child do them ahead of time. There will never be an assignment due that we have not gone over in class.

There will not be a final book test or vocab test for this unit.  The grades will come from the work we do as we read the book.  Students will need to stay up to date with the assignments.

Blessings on your weekend and the short week ahead.  I pray each of you have a wonderful, family filled Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Brown