Thursday, December 12, 2019

Happy Thursday!

Don't forget to wear your orange Davis t-shirt tomorrow!  We have the holiday sing and shop tomorrow at 1:30 in the gym.  

Homework:
Reading:  Read chapter 4 of Esperanza Rising.  Be prepared for tomorrow's entrance quiz.
Spelling #8: 1 choice board activity if you got below a 90% on the pre-test.
Math:  Do #1-10 on the study guide.  

Mrs. Matson put out a bunch of videos for the math unit as a review.  Check out her you tube channel or click on the links below.  

Adding mixed numbers
Subtracting mixed numbers with and w/o borrowing
Subtracting whole numbers and fractions

Have a great evening!

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Happy Wednesday!

So much going on!  Please don't forget about others who may be in need this Holiday season!  Not only is there the giving tree at our school, but one of our Davis friends is now suddenly in need of some help.  If you would like to help the Christopher's, but don't know what they need, please e-mail me and I can give you some ideas of their immediate needs right now.  Thank you!  

Friday is the Davis sing and tickets came home today.  Please don't forget to wear your orange 5th grade t-shirt to school on Friday.  

Homework:
Reading:  Read for 25 minutes and have the response completed by tonight.
No Spelling/Grammar
Math: WS on adding fractions. 

Have a wonderful evening!!

Tuesday , December 10, 2019

Happy Tuesday!

A few reminders for this week.  Please return either the magnets or the money for the magnets.  Friday is the holiday shop and sing.  Don't forget to wear your orange 5th grade t-shirt on  Friday.  


Congratulations to Audrey Jackson!  She won in our class contest for best Crash Can.  Maddox Amos, Kaden Doss, and Jett King were all runners-up!  Great job guys!!

Homework: 
Reading:  Read for 25 minutes and have 1 response ready for Friday.
Wordly Wise: #8 E and study the flash cards.  Quiz tomorrow.
Math:  WS

Have a wonderful afternoon!

Monday, December 9, 2019

Happy Monday!  

I hope everyone had a good weekend!! 

Last week I sent home the magnets as an option to purchase.  If you would like to buy the magnets, please enclose the $12 in the envelope provided and return it to school.  If you would not like to buy the magnets, please return them to school.  Thank you!!

The crash cans look amazing!  I hope that you all will be able to join us for the holiday sing on Friday at 1:30.  I will be sending home green tickets tomorrow for the sing.  If you bring the ticket with you, you will not have to sign in at the front office when you get here.  

Homework: 

Reading:  Read Chapter 3 of Esperanza Rising
Wordly Wise: #8 C & D  The quiz will be on Wednesday.  Content area words for spelling will be: Inference, historical, denominator, Mexico, Esperanza.
Math: WS.

Have a good evening!!

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Happy Wednesday!!

We had a slight schedule change today, so that will affect our HW this evening.  We did not have Social Studies so the quiz will be tomorrow.  

Home work for this evening is to read chapter 2 of Esperanza Rising again this evening.  We will be reading each chapter multiple times.  Each time you read it, you will have a deeper understanding of the characters and what they are going through.  I will caution you again to not read ahead!  I know that is hard, but you can do it!!

Keep studying for the Social Studies.

Math was a bonus for us today.  I did not have homework to assign, but if you want to get ahead, watch the video I  have linked below from Khan Academy and do some of the practice.  😇

Math video on subtracting fractions with regrouping and mixed numbers

Love you guys!!  Have a great day!

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Happy Tuesday!

Sorry about the misunderstanding with the math video last night!  There was no video to watch!  😉 

Homework for this evening: 

Reading - Reread chapter 1 and then go ahead and read chapter 2.  The reading guide I sent home to go along with the reading section does not have to be answered on the worksheet.  Use sticky notes as evidence flags to mark in the book where you find the answer to each of the questions.  

Spelling #7 -  Choice Board Activity and the test will be tomorrow.  

Math - No video tonight.  Please finish the WS we started in class today.  We will go over all of the answers in class tomorrow.  😊

Social Studies - Mrs. Matson will be giving a quiz tomorrow.  Please have your SS Weekly newspaper with you, as you will be able to use it during the quiz.  

Have a great evening and stay warm!!
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Monday, December 2, 2019

I hope that everyone had a wonderful break!!  It was so great to see everyone and get back into the routine!

The next few weeks are going to be very busy with the holidays coming up in earnest!  Who else is amazed that it is December already???

This Friday is the 5th grade bake sale.  We are asking that everyone bring in 2 dozen individually wrapped treats by 7:15 on Friday.  I will also be choosing 2 individuals to help with selling the treats.  If you are interested in selling on Friday morning, please write me a persuasive piece (be as creative as you wish) as to why you would be the best person for the job.  😁


Homework:  Reading - read for 25 minutes and have one response done by Friday.
                     Spelling - List #7 Choice board activity.  The Test will be on Wednesday.
                     Math - Watch the video.  I do not have it uploaded yet.  Please check back after 5, or                             look on Mrs. Matson's you tube channel. 


Have a great evening!!

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Happy Wednesday!

Not much for homework this evening.  I talked to the class this afternoon about, for this week only, lowering the pretest benchmark to 80%.  It is my hope that by doing this a majority of the students will not have to worry about the spelling words over Thanksgiving Break.  As usual, the WW quiz and pretest will go home tomorrow in Thursday papers.  

Reading:  Read for 25 minutes and have on response completed by Friday.

No WW or Spelling tonight.  Instead, use the time to work on your Ellis Island paper, putting it in your One Note Writing Folder.

Math:  WS on Adding and Subtracting Fractions.  Feel free to review last night's video before starting the WS.

Have a great evening!!

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Hello and Happy Tuesday!

Homework for this evening: 

Reading: Read for 25 minutes and have one response to turn in for Friday.  You may do your response in MI Write.  You will find the prompt for the response under informational writing. 

Wordly Wise: #7 E and study for tomorrow's quiz.  The spelling pretest for  the words will also be given tomorrow.  Hint, hint: see last week's blog for content area words.

Math:  Some students need to finish the Common Denominators WS that we worked on in class.  Once that is completed and you are ready to move on to the next step, watch the video linked below on adding and subtracting with unlike denominators.  
Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators

Social Studies:  Mrs. Matson will be giving a quiz on the Panama Canal.  Be sure that you have the SS Weekly and your notes, because the quiz will be open newspaper and open note.

Have a great evening!!!

Monday, November 18, 2019

Happy Monday! 

We have a busy week ahead of us!  This week we will complete the first unit on the UDHR, and the informational piece on Ellis Island, leaving us ready to start Esperanza Rising when we return from Thanksgiving.  So many things to do and look forward to!!

We are testing out a new program on a trial basis in Writing.  We played around with it in school on Friday.  I put this week's reading response into MI Write, so you can submit the response to me via MI Write.  While you are in there, you can look at the Narrative piece and see all of the things that you can do with it.  

Homework: 
Reading: Read for 25 minutes and do 1 response for Friday (can be done in MI Write)
WW#7: Do C & D 
Math:  Review the video from last week on LCM. 
Math video

Have a great week!

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Happy Thursday!

What a great day!!  Again, I want to thank you for all of the donations to the food pantry!  You guys really are all Rockstars!!

We started a new unit in Math on Fractions.  We will begin by focusing on subtracting and adding fractions with unlike denominators.  We will move into subtracting mixed numbers with regrouping the fractions.  Please be sure to watch the videos that Mrs. Matson creates for the students.  These are important to watch before class, as we are practicing that skill once we are in class.

We also started to switch for Science and Social Studies.  My homeroom is now going to Mrs. Matson for Social Studies and her homeroom is taking Science with me.   

Don't forget...It is Thursday, so graded papers came home today.  Also, sign the agendas and gold sheets this evening!

Homework:
Reading: Read for 25 minutes and have the response ready to turn in tomorrow.
Wordly Wise #7: A & B
Math:  Watch the video on Multiples and Least Common Multiple

Have a great evening!!

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Hello and Happy Wednesday!

Hope everyone is staying warm!!

Keep bringing in the food!  We may never catch up to Mrs. Matson's class, but at least we'll do our best!!

Homework: 

Reading: Read for 25 min and have one response for Friday
Wordly Wise #7: Make flash cards.
***Content Area words: Ellis Island, evidence, immigrant, cite, article

Remember that we will be switching to Social Studies with Mrs. Matson tomorrow.

Monday, November 11, 2019

Happy Veterans Day!

We had a fantastic Veterans Day parade this morning.  I know that I, for one, was welling up a bit with emotion watching all of our proud veterans walk through our halls this morning. 

Please continue to bring in donations for the food drive!  We are collecting for families in our community that are not as fortunate as we are.  Thank you to all of the families that have already donated.

The science test will be on Wednesday and I have posted the completed study guide on today's blog. 

Homework:

Read for 25 minutes and have one reading response completed for Friday
One Spelling Choice Board Activity
Study for the Science test

These same assignments will be tomorrow night's HW as well, since I will not be in school tomorrow. 

Unit 2 Study Guide

Know what the following terms mean and give examples of each.

1.     Vertebrate            A living thing that has a backbone          Human

2.    Invertebrate          A living thing that does not have a backbone      Sponge

3.    Vascular                 Plants with inner tubes that carry nutrients      Tree

4.    Nonvascular           A plant that doesn’t have tubes to carry nutrients      moss 

5.    Dichotomous Key    A chart used to classify organisms  

 

6.    A scientist is trying to classify the following animals: snake, lizard, and turtle.  What two ways can they be classified?   Vertebrate because they have a backbone and Reptiles because they are cold blooded.

7.    A group is making a dichotomous key from the following chart.  What might their dichotomous key look like?

         Does it produce seeds?

Does it have roots?            Does it produce seeds?           
                                                  

 

8.    Describe what makes each of these classifications unique, then list at least three animals that fall into the following categories:

a.     Mammals      Have live young, hair /fur, warm blooded;  horse, lion, dog

b.    Reptiles        Lay eggs, scales, cold blooded; turtle, alligator, lizards

c.     Amphibians  Both on land and in water, cold blooded;  frog, toad, salamander, newt

d.    Fish   Lives in water, has gills, has fins; bass, salmon, catfish

e.     Insects        Has 6 legs, exoskeleton, invertebrate; ant, mosquito, cockaroach

9.    Explain how the organisms are related to each other as they continue down the classification levels. The organisms become more and more alike as you move down the chart.  There are less things in each group. 

10. How are plants classified?  What would be the next classification of plants after that?      Vascular and nonvascular; Seed bearing or non seed bearing

11.  How would you classify a pine tree?  A fern?          A pine tree would be vascular and seed bearing.  A fern would be vascular and non seed bearing

Essay:  Be able to write a paragraph on the following two questions:

12. How are vascular and non-vascular plants similar?  What are the main differences between vascular plants and non-vascular plants?

13. Emma’s class was studying vertebrates and invertebrates.  What are vertebrates?  What are some examples of vertebrates and invertebrates?