Please study for spelling and vocabulary before you go trick or treating! :)
Homework: 1) Spelling: WTW Sort 12 cloze quiz Thursday.
We are classifying plants this week: is it vascular or nonvascular? We are completing a celery laboratory to observe whether plain water, water with sugar, or water with food coloring will affect each celery stalk. The pictures above are Day 1 and Day 2. Ask your student what he/she observed so far!
Homework:
1) Reading: Inference passages with 8 vocabulary words page. 2) Math: Adding mixed numbers in Volume II, page 681 (6 problems) **Don't forget that there is no school next Tuesday, November 6th, due to Election Day.
**Next Friday, November 9th, we will be going to see the Atlanta Symphony perform. Please don't forget your sack lunch. Homework: 1) Math: Adding mixed numbers; Volume II, page 673, #2-7. 2) Reading: Study for vocabulary quiz on Thursday. In Science this week, we studied how to classify organisms based on their features. We learned that vertebrate animals have backbones, but they only make up 5% of all animals! 95% of animals are invertebrates, and do NOT have backbones. Here are some pictures of the models of backbones we made with: pipe cleaners, gummy life savers, and round crackers:
*Please make sure I have your signed permission slip for the Symphony on 11/9.
Homework: 1) Science: Study your notes on classifying animals for a quiz tomorrow. 2) Spelling: WTW Sort 11 sorting quiz 3) Math: Subtracting fractions on page 653 in Volume II (JUST SOLVE EQUATION). Numbers 2-10 only. Congratulations to all of our 5th grade award winners at First Quarter Awards Day! Let's continue with our success!!!! :)
Homework: 1) Math: Complete constructed response in YELLOW math notebook about Mr. Tromp (subtracting fractions). 2) Reading: Vocabulary quiz tomorrow (4 words) 3) Spelling: WTW Sort 11 cloze quiz tomorrow **Don't forget that tomorrow is Awards Day for Quarter One: 4/5 grades are from 9:25-10:00am. Please dress nicely.
Homework: 1) Social Studies: Propaganda Project due tomorrow. Please make sure your poster on the cardstock I gave you is in color. 2) Math: Three subtracting with unlike denominators in your notebook, #1, 3, 4 from today's notes. *Please return the field trip permission slip for the symphony!! :)
Homework: 1) Social Studies: TEST on WWI (World War I) tomorrow (from Franz Ferdinand to the Paris Peace Conference). The study guide answers will be posted after 1:30pm today. 2) Math: Adding unlike fractions word problem (Bobby's English muffin pizza....) in your math notebook. 3) Spelling: WTW Sort 10 patterns quiz. |
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