Homework for Sept. 30, 2009

Math: Practice Sheet 6
Language Arts: Writing sentences in vocabulary packet

Upcoming events:

• I will be absent on Thursday and Friday of this week, but Miss Bunney will be here in my stead. I will be at a district training and will be easily accessible if help is needed.
  
• On Friday the students will have a Unit 1 math test, a social studies quiz on early American cultural regions, and their weekly vocabulary quiz.
• Book Brochures are due on October 9th, 2009.

Ordering Books!

Please order books from Scholastic Online and help earn books for our classroom library.

Go to: www.scholastic.com/bookclubs
Our class's user name is: DvoraKleinsClass
Password: reading

Thanks,
Miss Klein

Unusual Past Tense Verbs

Most of these words are not hard to spell, but these words will help students see that not all verbs form the past tense by adding -ed.

1. sleep / slept
2. keep / kept
3. bleed / bled
4. shine / shone
5. throw / threw
6. know / knew
7. draw / drew
8. drive / drove

Homework for Sept. 28, 2009

Language Arts: Finish drafting your place memoir (started in class.) Rough drafts are due on Tuesday.
Vocabulary: Unusual past tense verb sort (page two of packet) and find four additional past tense verbs that are not made by simply adding an "-ed" to the end of a verb.
Math: Study Links 1.7 (square numbers) - Students should understand that 2 x 2 = 4 can also be represented with an exponent.

ATTENTION PARENTS

Please respond to the invitation to join ms-kleins-5th-grade@googlegroups.com. So far there are only nine members, two of which are me... (That doesn't sound grammatically correct.) If you want your voice to be heard on important issues around field trips and classroom events, please join up!!!!

Homework for Sept. 24, 2009

Math: Practice Sheet 5 and study for quiz if you got less than 4/5
Vocabulary: Word search, crossword, and study for quiz on Friday
Other: Remember to get the Book Brochure Project sheet signed. In addition, please review and sign the homework packet for this week.

Tomorrow, we will be performing a short Reader's Theater play in room B-7 at 11:25. There will also be a school wide assembly at 1:30.

Student Council Representatives

Congratulations to our new student council representatives:

• Ben
• Angelo
• Clayton

Our alternates are:

• Tyler J.
• Ian
  

DO NOT DO MERRY-GO-ROUND HOMEWORK

Please do not do the Merry-Go-Round sheet. I will not count it against students as incomplete homework... The directions seem to be unclear and there is a good deal of questions. So don't worry about it!

Sorry about that! :-(

Homework for Sept. 23, 2009

Math: Study Links 1.4 and Factor Merry-Go-Round
Vocabulary: Write a sentence with context clues for each word
Language Arts: Parents please sign the Book Brochure Handout to acknowledge that your child will have a project due on October 9, 2009

Homework for Sept. 22, 2009

Math: Study Links lessons 1.2 and 1.3 on Rectangular Arrays and Factors
Vocabulary: Definitions (in your own words) and CLOZE Sentences
Language Arts: Try to find two or three places during your reading where you used a Fix-Up method to help maintain your inner voice. (This strategy is called monitoring comprehension.) Please keep track of the moments on your log that we began today in class.

Readers' Theater on Friday

Hello!

This Friday we will be preforming a short social studies play that Cantey Meigs has helped us to prepare in room B-7 at 11:25 AM. (B-7 is our "buddy" classroom.) Please stop on by, if you are free!

Thank you to Cantey for helping the students to find their inner actor!

Cheers,
Miss Klein

Fun Extra Credit

Please look-up why we capitalize the word "I" whenever it is written in a sentence. Where did this rule come from? What is the origin of the capital "I"?

Homework for Sept. 21, 2009

Math: Practice Sheet 1 (review of rectangular arrays)
Language Arts: Vocabulary sorting sheet

Vocabulary Words for the week of Sept. 21st

This week our vocabulary focus will be: Adding -ing to Words with VC and VCC Patterns

1. setting
2. grinning
3. living
4. taking
5. having
6. floating
7. adding
8. picking

When a word has a short vowel and ends with a single consonant, typically the consonant is doubled before adding the -ing. For example, swim becomes swimming.

Friday Folder

Please don't forget to look over and remove the papers in your child's Friday Folder. This week, we had our first math quiz and our first vocabulary quiz! Please remember to sign the back of the folder and return it with your child on Monday.

Opps! Wednesday's missing post...

I forgot to update my blog on Wednesday. I was a little under the weather, as I am sure your child may have let you know. I tend to get bad migraines, but they only happen once every three or four months. Unfortunately, my headaches are usually accompanied by narrowed vision, sensitivity to sound, high fever, and nausea. Fun! I do my best not to miss school, but that also means your children sometimes have to deal with a sick teacher....

Math: Standard Notation worksheet (both sides)
Language Arts: Vocabulary Sentences (with context clues)

Every Wednesday, I will give the students a short math quizzes (5 questions) to assess the students' understanding of the standards covered in class that week. If the students miss more than one out of five problems, they will be given some extra work to assist their understanding of the concept.

Homework for Sept. 17 , 2009

Math: Identify whether each number is a prime or composite. A prime number is defined as a number that is only divisible by one and itself, for example 3, 5, 7, etc... A composite is a number that has more than one factor.
Language Arts: Complete the vocabulary packet (crossword and word search.) Study for the vocabulary quiz* on Friday.
Other: If your child would like to participate in the student council election, they must return a signed permission slip by Monday, September 21st.
Don't forget to sign and review your child's homework packet.

* Every Friday we will have a vocabulary quiz. The students will be asked to correctly spell the words (1 point per word) and to write a sentence with context clues (1 point per sentence.) Context clues provide the reader with a hint as to the meaning of the word.

Homework for Sept. 15, 2009

Math: Finish the Eratosthenes' Sieve (a magical method for finding prime numbers) and the Puzzling Numbers Crossword (all numbers should be written in standard form)
Language Arts: Write the definitions for each word in your own words (not dictionary definitions) and complete the CLOZE sentences (fill in the blanks)

Vocabulary Words for the week of Sept. 14th

This week vocabulary words are:

1. chief
2. groan
3. wrap
4. plot
5. smell
6. climb
7. whine
8. quote

Our focus will be on a review of vowel patterns in one-syllable words.

Homework for Sept. 10, 2009

Math: Rounding decimals to whole numbers
Other: Goal setting (Students are to set two academic goals and one social / emotional goal in response to President Obama's speech yesterday.)

Homework for Sept. 9, 2009

Math: Extended, Standard and Written Form Practice (Side B)
Language Arts: N/A

Remember to read for at least 25 minutes!

Back to School Night

You are cordially invited to Back-to-School Night on Thursday, September 10, 2009 from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM.

Thank you,
Miss Klein

Monday's Homework

Language Arts: None
Math: Side B of the Place Value Worksheet

All students are required to read for 25 minutes a night. Each night, your child should complete their Reading Log. They are to write a short summary of what they read that evening (at least three sentences.) In the beginning of the year, I will check the Reading Logs daily. It is important that students finish the books they begin rather than reading little bits and pieces of different texts each night. When students complete a book, they will be asked to complete a red recommendation card (similar to the cards you might encounter at Barnes & Noble or Border's.) In addition, students will be required to complete six formal book reports over the course of the school year. The first book report will be due in mid-October and will be a "brochure."

Welcome!

Welcome to Miss Klein's Homework Blog!

Every evening, I will do my best to post the nightly homework. Don't forget, in addition to the assigned work, children are required to read for at least 25 minutes per evening and complete their Reading Logs nightly. On Mondays, I will post the vocabulary words for the week. In addition, I will try to post information about class projects, upcoming events, classroom news, and fun links that will assist your child with their homework.

Cheers,
Miss Klein