Homework Mon. Oct. 29th

Spelling: ABC Order

Vocabulary: Copy Definitions

Reading: RAZ Kids
1) Listen
2) Read
3) Take Quiz

Math: Reteaching 9-4 (Q 1 - 4)
           Practice 9-4 (Q 1 - 6)

Week of October 29th, 2012

Well sorry :( but it is Monday!!

Here's an update of happenings for this week.

1) Congratulations to Alfredo Cossio for receiving the Student of the Month Award for demonstrating good manners!

2) I am sending home last week's Weekly Comprehension/Spelling/Grammar test.  Please be sure to sign and return.

3) I am also sending home today the results of your child's first quarter district Math Assessment.  Please also sign and return the bottom portion of the notice.

4)This week will be the 4th and 5th Grade 1st Quarter Science Assessment.  Please make sure your children study their study guides.  Next week they will begin their new rotation with either myself, Ms. Perry or Ms.. Valiquette (5th grade)

Wednesday, October 31st - a.k.a. Halloween

The annual Halloween parade will begin promptly at 12:45 pm.  Parents are welcome to watch from the sidelines and arrive earlier to help their children into costumes.  The parade will end at 1:30 and students will then be dismissed.  Have fun and enjoy the evening trick-or-treating if that's what you will be doing.

The school is once again doing a "Candy Split" - a flyer went home last week about it.  Your children will more than likely collect way too much candy.  We are asking that you halve your candy and bring the rest in for me!!!  No, seriously, we collect candy for a food shelter/community center that helps young children.  What a blessing it is to be able to help others.

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A few other reminders:

1) Please be sure your child is logging onto RAZ kids everyday and completing the reading tasks in their reading level.  They must listen to a story, then read the same story to themselves, then they must take the quiz.

2) If you haven't yet committed to the 5th Grade overnight field trip, this is a gentle reminder that we must know your decision by December 1st along with a $50 deposit.

3) Please remember to sign your child's behavior chart and planner every day.  They will receive a color change for not completing homework if it is not signed.

4) Upcoming dates to remember: 

    Monday, November 12th - no school in observance of Veteran's Day

    School will be closed for the whole week of Thanksgiving Nov. 19th - 23rd

Ok, here's another cute picture to sign off with.  Have a great week everyone.  Remember to be kind and gentle to others.

Homework Thur. Oct. 25th

Tomorrow's Friday!!

Spelling: 10 sentences

Language Arts: Nouns w/s P 105

                          Comprehension w/s P. 97

Reading: RAZ Kids

1) Listen

2) Read

3) Take quiz

Math: Factors w/s

Homework Wed. Oct. 25th

Spelling: 3 x cursive

Language Arts: Nouns w/s GR 22

Reading: RAZ Kids
1) Listen
2) Read
3) Quiz

Math:
Reteaching 9-3
Practice 9-3 Q 1-13

(I'll put up a picture tomorrow!!)

Week of Oct. 22nd, 2012

Here are a few reminders:

1) Tomorrow (October, 23rd, 2012) will be Picture Make Up Day.  If your child was not present for school pictures, or you wish to have them retaken, please be sure to be dressed up tomorrow.

2) Friday, October 26th is Van Gogh's Fall Festival - come dressed in your costumes and be prepared to have a great time!

3) Next week is Halloween.  On Wednesday, October 31st, Van Gogh Charter will have their annual Halloween parade.   The parade will start promptly at 12:45 pm and school will be dismissed at 1:35 pm

4) 5th Grade Science Quarter 1 assessment is next week.  Your child should study form the study guides they have been given.  (My physical science class will be getting their study guides on Thursday)

Homework - Monday, Oct. 22nd.

Spelling - ABC Order

Vocabulary - Copy definitions

Reading - RAZ Kids
1) Listen
2) Read
3) Quiz

Math: Reteaching 9-1
           Practice 9-1 (Q1-3 only)

Homework 10/11/12

Spelling: 10 sentences in Spelling Journal

Language Arts: Nouns w/s GR 17

Reading: RAZ Kids
1) Listen
2) Read
3) Quiz

Math: Chapter 5 Review

Homework 10/10/12

Spelling: Cursive 3 times

Language Arts: Nouns P.B. Page 79

Reading: RAZ Kids
1) Listen
2) Read
3) Quiz

Math:
Reteaching 5-3
Practice 503 (Q 1-8 only)

Homework 10/9/12

Spelling:  Word Sort P.B. Page 70

Vocabulary: Fill in the Blank P.B. Page 71

RAZ Kids:
1) listen
2) Read
3) Quiz

Math: 
Reteaching 5-2
Practice 5-2

Homework 10/8/12

Spelling: ABC order

Vocabulary: Copy Definitions

Reading: RAZ Kids
1) Listen
2) Read
3) Quiz

Math: Reteaching 5-1
Practice 5-1

Week of Monday, October 8th, 2012

 

Good morning to all - yes, it is Monday again and we have another full week ahead in Room 32.

Language Arts 

This week the students will taking their first District Quarterly Literacy Assessment.  There are a total of 60 questions and they will be completing the assessment in chunks each day.   We are also beginning the 2nd unit of California Treasures.  This unit focuses on how the American West changed during this country's early years.  

Math

The first quarterly District Math Assessment will begin next week.  We still have a lot of work to cover.  This week will be algebraic expressions and prime factors.  

Please remember it is vitally important for your child's education that they come to school every day, unless of course serious illness gets in the way or other family emergencies.  Often there is no time to catch them up if they are absent.

Tuesday, October 16th

All 5th grade students will be having a mandatory audio metric (hearing) test here at school.

Nothing much else to report, so have a great week.

Ms. Bennett

Homework 10/3/12

Apologies I forgot to put up the homework for Wednesday (yesterday!)

Here's tonight's homework

Language Arts: 1) Main Idea
                          2) Treats or Tricks

Reading: RAZ Kids - DON'T FORGET NEW LOGIN INFORMATION
1) listen
2) read
3) quiz

Math: Reteaching 7-2 (Q 1-6)
           Practice 7-2 (Q 1-8)
All work in notebook.
 
 

Homework 10/2/12

Language Arts:
1) Main Idea worksheet
2) Jack O' Lantern - comprehension

Reading: RAZ Kids
1) listen
2) read
3) quiz
Make sure you are selecting a book from your reading level.

Math:  Practice 4-5 (Q 1-6 only)  ALL WORK MUST BE COMPLETED IN NOTEBOOK

Homework 10/1/12

Language Arts:  The Haunted House (comprehension)

Comprehension test signed and returned

Reading: RAZ Kids
1) Listen
2) Read
3) Quiz

Math: Reteaching 4-5 (Q 1-3 only)
          Practice 4-5 (Q 1-9 only)

HAVE A GREAT EVENING!

Week of October 1, 2012

IT'S GOING TO BE A SCORCHER TODAY!

Brace yourselves everyone, it's going to be hot, hot, hot outside today!  Drink plenty of fluids and keep calm!

Week of October 1st News

Language Arts - next week (October 8), the students will be taking the first quarter District Literacy Assessment.  What I have chosen to do this week is review skills and standards they will be tested on.  Therefore there will not be a particular weekly story read, or specific comprehension, vocabulary or spelling quiz.  There will be various comprehension passages they will be reading for homework and in class, and various grammar skills they will be working on.

Math - we are hot and heavy into division.  This appears to be an area of confusion for a number of students.  Please do your best to help them at home, but remember not to complete their homework for them!

Shockingly, this week is a FULL work week, no days off, no shortened days, a regular work week.  Please make sure you child comes to school every day and on time.  We have so much to do and not enough time to do it!

GREAT NEWS!!!

Thanks to some very generous people in this world, our latest Donors Choose project was fully funded over the weekend, with a random stranger donating the last $22 we needed!! (What a lesson in teaching kindness and giving!)  We can now look forward to receiving one more Nook for the classroom.  Thank you to the parents of Room 32 who helped make this happen.

That's all the reminders for this week.  

 Feel free to leave comments at the end of this blog if you would like to...kind only!!

Ms. Bennett