Thursday 8/29/11: Homework

Hey there 5th graders and family! Here's tonight's homework:

Language Arts:

• 1st and 2nd hour: 
• Study your definitions from your agenda tonight for your spelling test tomorrow. 
• Read for 25 minutes and fill out a row from your "Track Your Own Reading Progress" sheet

Math:

• 1st hour: Rounding Handout p. 71-72
• 2nd hour: Mental Math Multiplication, finish text p. 60-61

 Social Studies:

• 3rd and 4th hour:

• Complete current event that we started in class on the article "30 Hours of Pain."

Science: No Homework

9/29/11:Homework

 Language Arts:

• 1st hour: Spelling Form *In each sentence make sure there is a circled adjective and an arrow pointing to the noun it modifies. *Parents: Don't forget to sign your student's completed spelling homework! :)
• 2nd hour: Complete spelling form if not in class. Take it home and have a parent sign your completed copy! 
• Your spelling words for today:
• disloyal (adj.)
• doubt (v.)
• sight (n.)
• special (adj.)

Math:

• 1st hour:Multiple step problem solving handout p.76-77
• 2nd hour: Properties of multiplication handout 32 &34

Social Studies and Science:
None tonight!

See you tomorrow!
Miss Baker

Tuesday 9/27/11: Homework

Language Arts

• 1st and 2nd hour-List three conflicts that we encountered in our reading of "I Sailed with Columbus" today in your Language Arts journal.

Math

•  1st hour-Adding Decimals handout p. 63-64
•  2nd hour- You had a test in class today, no homework.

Science and Social Studies- No homework!

Have a great night!
Miss Baker 

Monday 9/26/11: Homework

Language Arts

• 1st hour: 
• Spelling form *In each sentence you write for your spelling form, in addition to using the word in a sentence, make sure to use one adjective. Circle the adjective and draw an arrow to the noun it is modifying (describing)
• Read for at least 25 minutes tonight. Then fill out one row on your "Track Your Own Book Progress" form. Remember I will be checking this sheet for your progress every Thursday, starting this Thursday.

• 2nd hour: 
• Spelling form
•  Read for at least 25 minutes tonight. Then fill out one row on your "Track Your Own Book Progress" form. Remember I will be checking this sheet for your progress every Thursday, starting this Thursday.

Math

• 1st hour: Rounding handout. 63-64
• 2nd hour: Rounding handout p, 71-72

Social Studies & Science: 

•  No Homework tonight. *unless you are finishing either Historian's Workshops late. Finish those!

Have a great night!
Miss Baker

Mustang Gallop and Flagstaff Festival of Science

Hey Marshall Families!
Things are moving right along here at school and I hope things are going well on your end at home! Here's a couple of exciting announcements.


The Mustang Gallop, one of our school's biggest (and funnest--yes, your English teacher just wrote "funnest") fundraisers is coming up and I'm so thrilled to be a part of it this year!
Here's a video to get you pumped and let you know what it's all about! Also, there should be a small packet of information coming your way in your child's backpack regarding the Mustang Gallop.

 You should also be receiving a brochure about the Flagstaff Festival of Science. What a great opportunity to enjoy free and fascinating activities with your family! Some of the activities include Sky viewings at Lowell Observatory, special talks at the Museum of Northern Arizona, and educational hikes. So cool! I know I'll be checking at least one of these events out! See you there. :)


Have a great weekend!
Miss Baker

Thursday 9/22/11: Homework

Language Arts:

• Study spelling words and definitions for Spelling Test tomorrow. (Your words and definitions should be in your agenda)

Math: 

• 1st  hour: Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers handout p. 58; finish text pages 39-40
• 2nd hour: Text page 47-48 #1-13

Social Studies:

• Final Copy of Historian's Workshop! If you've done all your Social Studies homework this week and utilized your time in class, then all of your rough draft material should be finished. Can't wait to see the final product!

Hope you all get to spend some quality time together this evening!
Miss Baker

Wednesday 9/21/11: Homework

Language Arts

• 1st hour: Spelling form, Completed P.O.S. (Parts of Speech) Chart in your Language Arts journal (See below) with one sentence using one of each of the three parts of speech.

 
The chart should look like this! If you didn't fill it out using our book in class, use any book from home. 

• 2nd hour: Finish Spelling Form
• Spelling words for both classes:

 

• beginning (v.)
• calculated (v.)
• excited (adj.)
• horizon (n.)

Math:

• 1st hour: draw a picture to write an equation, handout 52-53, & Finish text pages 35-36
• 2nd hour: Subtracting Decimals Handout and complete text page 44-45

Social Studies:

• Use online links of "Columbian Exchange Diagrams" or Expert's Topic Handout to create a rough draft map for Historian's Workshop. (Final Copy due Friday)

Have a great night!
Miss Baker

Tuesday 9/20: Homework

Language Arts:

• 1st hour: No homework
• 2nd hour: finish spelling (if you didn't finish it in class) and have your completed work signed by a parent.

Math:

• 1st hour: Estimating Sums/Differences Text pages 52-53 Set B & C
• 2nd hour: Adding Decimals handout 64-65

Social Studies:

• Cause and Effect Chart (Use our expert's topic handout pg. 144)

Don't forget to relax and enjoy yourselves this evening too!
-Miss Baker

Monday 9/19/11: homework

Hey all! Let's hit the ground running this week and have 100% of our homework turned in tomorrow!

Language Arts

• 1st hour: Spelling form. Your words are cargo-n. foreigner-n. islands-n. vessels-n.
• 2nd hour: No homework tonight. We'll pick up on our group spelling assignment tomorrow.

Math

• 1st hour: Complete textpage 31-32, 9-39 every third problem, 40-45
• 2nd hour: Complete textpage 39-40, Adding and Subtracting whole numbers

Social Studies

• Experts topic: The Columbian Exchange.

Thursday 9/15/11: Homework

It's Thursday folks, we've almost made it!

Here's your homework for the night:

Language Arts:

•  Study your words for your spelling test. The words and definitions should be in your agenda.

 Math:

• 1st hour: Finish text pages 28-29 evens if they're not finished already.
• 2nd hour: Draw a picture to write an equation (pgs 35-36 all). Complete textbook page 33

Social Studies:

• Use tonight to finish up Historian's Workshop. You have a rubric to check off and make sure you've completed all the components of this project. It looks like this:

• Below is a picture of the board that has the model of what yours should look like as far as the layout. (Unlike mine, your ship will look historically accurate and should have been drawn using a reference picture.)

Wednesday 9/14/11: Homework

Better late than never? Sorry about the lack of homework post last night! I'll post it anyways to keep our running record complete. If ever there's no homework post you can always check Mr. Kasch's blog as well.

Language Arts:

• 1st and 2nd hour: Spelling Form

Your words:

• attached (adj.)
• nautical (adj.)
• navigators (n.)
• wallow (v.)

Math:

• 1st Hr: Rounding Whole Numbers and Decimals- handout p. 38 and 40
• 2nd Hr: Estimating Sums and Differences- handout p. 46-47

Social Studies:

• Be working on your Historian's Workshop at home. We've had time in class to research the naval terms and begin the rough draft of your ship drawing. The rest should be completed at home before Friday.

Tuesday 9/13/11 Homework

Homework for tonight:

Language Arts:

• 1st hour: none.

• 2nd hour: (Only if you did not come to class prepared with you spelling homework) write a 3-5 sentence paragraph about why it's important to come to class prepared with homework.

Math

• 1st hour: text pages 25-26 evens only
• 2nd hour: Rounding whole numbers and decimals handout 39-40

No Homework for Science and Social Studies tonight.

* Historian's Workshop due date is moved to Friday morning. We'll talk more about this tomorrow.

Have a great night! Miss Baker

Monday 9/12/11: Homework

Hello Mustangs!

Thanks for all your hard work today in my classes! Most of you were engaged (who remembers what that means?) and  focused today! Nice job! Let's continue that tomorrow.

Here's your homework for the night:

Language Arts

• 1st and 2nd hour: Spelling Form.

        your words are:  assign (v.) briskly (adv.) precision (n.) various (adj.)
        
Math

• 1st hour: Mental math strategies handout p. 31-32
• 2nd hour: Mental math strategies handout 2:1 (p. 2) (just answer the question in each box.)

Social Studies

• Experts topic:  Contact with the Tainos
  

Science

• Finish creating the ten words for your word search if you haven't completed it in class.

Have a great (possibly) stormy night! 
Miss Baker

Back to School Night Tomorrow!

Thursday September 8th, 6-7pm

 

Primary families: 

Visit classrooms: 6:00-6:15. 

Welcome time in the Gym: 6:15-6:25. 

Visit classrooms 6:25-7:00.

Intermediate families: 

Visit classrooms: 6:00-6:30. 

Welcome time in the Gym: 6:35-6:45. 

Visit classrooms 6:45-7:00

Wednesday 9/7/11: Homework

Language Arts: No Homework

Science: No Homework

Social Studies:
Experts topic: Life at Sea
Define 5 ship terms for historians workshop. Here's a list of some to choose from. You may find others if you find additional vocabulary to eventually label your ship with! Try using a dictionary or using some of the following links for your research:

Columbus's sailing ships
Columbus Vocabulary
Glossary of Nautical Terms
The video we watched in class today!

Math: 
1st hour: Place Value Review textbook pages 18-19
2nd hour: Mental Math handout p. 31/32


Have a great night!
Miss Baker

Tuesday 9/6/11: Homework

I hope everyone had a nice long relaxing weekend!

Here's tonight's homework:

Language Arts: 

1st hour:

• Spelling: It's up to you to make your spelling form tonight. -Or- you can print it out here. Either way, you must have these six components for each spelling word

1. word
2. p.o.s. (part of speech)
3. definition
4. synonym
5. antonym
6. Use in a sentence

• Prefix/Suffix worksheet- Both sides

2nd hour:

• Spelling- see 1st hour
• Prefix/Suffix worksheet- Just the prefix side.

Math: 

1st hour

• Comparing/Ordering Decimals p. 44

2nd hour

• No homework

Have a great night!
Miss Baker

9/1/11: Homework

Language Arts: 

• 1st and 2nd hour

1st person/ 3rd person point of view worksheet.

1st person: A point of view in which "I" or "we" serve as the narrarator.
3rd person: A point of view in which pronouns such as "he" "she" or "they" are referred to by an outside narrarator.

* Don't forget the sentences on the back

• Just 1st hour

Write a paragraph from the first person as Julio de la Vega Medina. (the main character in "I Sailed with Columbus")

*In your Language Arts Journal

Math:

• 1st hour: Dacimal Place Value Text p. 10-11 #1-25 odd
• 2nd hour: Place Value find the Missing Number Handout

Don't forget

* To study the spelling and definitions of the words that are written in your agenda! We'll have a spelling test tomorrow along with a concept quiz of things we've learned throughout the week.

* To read for 20 min!

* To ask your folks to sign your agenda!