I have just included a page and link above for ordering from Scholastic Book Club. This is by homeroom, so go to your child's homeroom teacher's page and find the link there. Students from my homeroom or Rooster Time(Mrs. Williamson), will order from the blog page above. I will still take orders sent to the school, but it is very easy to order from the link above and you do not have to send it with your child.You will have two weeks from the time the pages are sent home to order.
The first week of class was a lot of routine practice and learning how we do things in 5th grade.
In Communication Arts, we learned how to do the vocabulary each week. Our series has 8 vocabulary that go with each story. We will be concentrating on only 4. They still need to know the other 4, but we will mainly focus on 4 of them. This week it was categories, gigantic, luminous, and soggy. It would be great if you could use those words with them throughout their week. Those words will be used in a writing they do each week.
There has been some confusion about the packet. Vocabulary will be assigned on the first day of the week when we start a new story. It will be done as bell work on that day. It will need to be completed in 2 days (most of the time). I will have them write homework in their planner and I will circle it when it is due the next day. They may have completed it during class that day, after planners have been signed, but you will know it is due the next day and can check it. When I look over it, I will make notes on the top corner for them to make corrections. This time, I was concentrating on the word, definitions, and using it in a sentence. They were to make the sentence by circling the context clue, or synonym, and pointing an arrow from the context clue to the vocabulary word.
Spelling will be assigned the day after vocabulary, or the following day as bell work. I usually give more time for that. Those pages can be done when they complete other work in class, therefore, spelling is not homework. On the top of the pages I will write when we are doing the pages and the due dates (DD) if I know it at the time. The main spelling page will be for a grade most of the time. The other spelling page will be for a grade from time to time. Students should do each to the best of their ability at all times. They may work on vocab. and spelling from home.
The "Practice" and "Grammar" pages are NOT TO BE DONE AT HOME. We do those together as a class. You may discuss the skills on those pages, but do not do them. Those pages will not be graded, so they are to work on the skill together. That skill will be assessed in the quiz in the end or another way. Grammar will just be practiced in class. We may work that into our writing from time to time, too.
The packets are used so that the students have the vocabulary and spelling words with them, since they do not have a book. The practice and grammar pages are there so they know what skills we are concentrating on, and so that the pages are not lost. The students are to keep these pages until time to turn them in at the end, or on test day.
Instead of a 5 day week with each story, we are doing more like a 7 day week. So testing will not just be on Friday of each week.They will write in the planner the day before the test and I will circle it in their planner.
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