12/11/18 -The students are working on the story Hatchet.  And on Advent activities!  We are so blessed to be a Catholic school!  And to be able to celebrate the Birth of Jesus!
The Comprehension test for Hatchet will be Tuesday Dec. 18
In Grammar we are working on verbs.  - we will probably test on verbs after the Holiday.



12/4/18 - write definitions for the spelling words - from Hatchet - in the students own words.  

12/3/18
This week we will be working on ~ 
For Reading - on Monday we will have a test on comprehension on Good Bye Moon,
Next we will start with Hatchet
In Grammar we are starting with Verbs
And in Writing we will be working on our personnel narrative. 

11/25/18
This week we will be working on

• The story Good Bye Moon
• compare and contrast.
• And Subject Verb Agreement
• And writing a fantasy story with a setting, charactors, a climax and a conclusion.

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Dear Parents - I apologize for my absence from my homework site - My daughter in Penn State was sick and I was getting ready to go to Penn State at a moments notice to take her to the ER - But thankfully she finally saw the campus doctor and she is fine.

This week we are starting the story Good Bye to the Moon.  The spelling test will be on Friday 11/16/18 - the comprehension test will be after Thanksgiving.
We are also working on fantasy writing and Subject and noun agreement.


Thursday - Study for test on The Emperor's Silent Army, comprehension and vocabulary.
The students should study the pamphlet and their vocabulary words.  We reviewed for the test today in class.  

Wednesday 11/7/18
Today we had our spelling test - tomorrow we will review for our comprehension test on The Emperor's Silent Army.  
We are also working on a group project - groups of 2 or 3 are writing a halloween story.  I can't wait to read them! The students seem to be enjoying this project - I hope the finished work is as good as they are excited!

Tuesday 11/6/18 VOTE
Spelling test tomorrow 
And finish voting packet - we did them in class - most students are done.  

Monday 11/5/18 - Study for Grammar test - workbook pages 65, 76, 83, 100,  and 102

Friday 11/2/18 - No Homework over the weekend - but next week we will be having three tests -

Tuesday 11/6/18 will be grammar on independent and dependent clauses, compound and complex sentences
Study workbook pages 65, 76, 83, 100, and102

Wednesday 11/7/18 will be a spelling test 

Friday 11/9/18 will be a reading comprehension test on The Emperor's Silent Army.


Friday - Have a nice Weekend - I hope they read for fun over the weekend!

Wednesday - We are almost finished with our persuasive essays!  This has been a long road!  We learned about persuasive essays, about fact and opinion, about thesis statements and how to organize paragraphs, and how to write an intro and a conclusion.  We did some peer editing, and I read almost everyone's first draft.  We are now onto writing our good copy!
In reading we are starting The Emporer's Silent Army - we did the spelling words today.
In Grammar - we had a test today on subject and predicate  We will move onto common and proper nouns next.

Monday 10/22/18 - Test on Saving the Rain Forest - the students should study their workbook pages on the Saving the Rain Forest and the story.

Wednesday 10/24/18 - Test on Grammar for saving the Rain Forest - again the students should study their workbook pages and their worksheets.

Week of 10/15/18 

We are working on our Persuasive essay, learning to identify fact vs. opinion, subjects and predicates, different sentences and our story is Saving the Rain Forest.  
Comprehension test will be Monday Oct. 22 and the Grammar test will be on Tuesday Oct. 23


Monday 10/15/18

Homework study for tomorrow's spelling test 

Finish worksheet on Sentences

Thursday 10/11/18
The students had their pre-spelling test on Tuesday - and we tried something new - after the pretest - I let them grade their own papers - I instructed the students to look at spelling and letter formation.  I put all the words on the board in cursive so they could compare their letters and see how the letters should look and also check the spelling.  I instructed the students to correct their papers for spelling and letter formation in cursive.  Then I collected the papers to check their work.  Tonight for homework the students need to write each word that they still had wrong five times each on loose leaf and stable it to the pretest.
The students also need to complete grammar class work - pages 314 and 315 in their voyages textbook.  Some students completed this by the end of class.   

Wednesday 10/10/18
Get test folders signed
Finish sentences for spelling words

SPELLING TEST ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 16
On the Spelling test - the words must be in cursive.

Tuesday 10/9/18

Finish sentences for their spelling words
Spelling test Tuesday 10/16/18

Friday 10/5/18

No weekend homework - Have a great weekend!

Test on Old Yeller tomorrow - Friday Oct. 5, 2018

This test has been posted on the test calendar in the 5th and 6th grade hallway since last week - I apologize - I forgot to post it here.  

Today we reviewed two study sheets - and the students took the study sheets home to use to study with tonight


Wednesday Oct. 3, 2018
We are working on our persuasive essay in class - they just need to complete their persuasive essay map - if they didn't finish it in class.

Thursday 9/27/18

We are slowing developing skills to write a Persuasive Essay.  Tonights homework is to write a persuasive paragraph on anything - using the formate on page 101 in their grammar books. This paragraph should be on loose leaf and will count as a homework grade
BUT - some students mentioned that they had a lot going on tonight - so the persuasive paragraph can be handed in on Monday.

SPELLING TEST TOMORROW


Wednesday 9/26/18

We are working on learning how to write a Persuasive Essay and we ARE writing a Persuasive Essay - today we talked about fact vs opinion, introduction paragraphs and thesis statements
For homework they were to write their thesis statement.  

Tuesday 9/25/18
No Homework tonight :)


Monday 9/24/18
We got our new spelling words and vocabulary words today and did some prep for reading - talking about what will need to think about and look for while reading.
We did not get the sentences or the definitions done in class for the spelling or vocabulary words - so the students need to finish that for homework
The vocabulary definitions should be looked up in a dictionary or dictionary site 
The definitions for the spelling words should be the students own words - just brief descriptions - one or two words. 
The spelling words repeat - so one definition and one sentence for each pair of words.

Thursday 9/20/18
We are finished with their summer reading book Ungifted 
    Homework - finish all morning work


Wednesday 9/19/18
Study for vocabulary test on Ungifted


Tuesday 9/18/18

Students must have Ungifted book with them for the test!
Study for Ungifted Comp Test tomorrow
Study Vocabulary list from Ungifted for Vocab test on Thursday

Monday 9/17/18
Decide on a topic for your Persuasive Essay

Study vocab words from today's sheet
Study for comprehension test on Ungifted - study notes from today and Friday

Ungifted comprehension test Wednesday
Ungifted vocab test Thursday

Thursday 9/13/18
Complete compare and contrast of two characters from Ungifted in your ELA copybook

Study for Spelling Test - the test is tomorrow


Wednesday 9/12/18
Study for spelling test on Friday
Start to study Ungifted study guide that was handed out today and reviewed today - just the study questions for now.

Tuesday 9/11/18
complete class assignment in grammar workbook page 32 exercise 2 - do work in ELA copybook

Study for Spelling test on Friday
Get Books Covered





Monday 9/10/18

Ungifted Worksheet
Study Spelling words
Cover books


9/7/18

9/6/18

Please have students bring in a water bottle for themselves, due to the heat

Please have students bring in their summer reading book UNGIFTED

All forms from back to school night are due on Friday 9/7/18

All books must be covered

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