Dear Parents,

Take-Home folders will go home on Wednesday. (I’ve been sick for several days so have been unable to get everything compiled for the folders.) Also, please make sure your student brings in the signed folders and tests by Friday of each week.

CRCT Test Prep info: Please make sure that your students are logging on to the Online Assessment site (www.georgiaoas.org) and taking at least one of the Teacher Assigned tests each week.

Jekyll Island Field Trip: There will be a parent meeting on Monday, Feb. 9, for those of you whose students will be going on the field trip next week.

Wanted: Our class could still use the following items: tissues, paper towels, Clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, or hand soap (as they are no longer providing it in the restrooms ~ because students were emptying full soap containers on the floors, as well for budgetary reasons).

Updating Personal Information: Please make sure to email me any changes in phone numbers, email addresses, or home addresses so I can keep my files up to date. In addition, if you have never received an email from me, please send me your email address as soon as possible.

There will be no math tutoring this Thursday (Feb. 5) or next Thursday (Feb. 12). We have a “just scheduled” staff event this Thursday and I will be in Jekyll Island next Thursday. Math tutoring will resume on Thursday, Feb. 19.

Working together for student success,
Mrs. Pede

Homework ~ February 2-6

* Asterisk means HW passes cannot be used for these assignments.

CRCT TEST PREP: Log on to www.georgiaoas.org and take at least one of the Teacher Assigned Tests. (Assigned tests include Math, Reading, Writing Process, and Life Science.) You can also take the practice tests as well.

Monday

1. Vocabulary/ Spelling: Complete Wordly Wise 17A: Finding Meanings. B. Create word webs for the two Wordly Wise 17 words (afflict, barren). C. Write definitions and sentences for the first three “5^th Grade No Excuses” words. (No Excuses words — will, wheel, mountain, straight, strait, affect, effect.)

2. Math: Complete class work if necessary. C. Continue working on Math Vocabulary Log definitions for words posted on the closet door. (A list will also be posted on the class blog.)

3. Language Arts: Complete class work.

4. Reading: Begin reading Chapters 1-8 of Bud, Not Buddy. (Be sure to keep track of your reading in your reading log.)

Tuesday

1. Vocabulary/ Spelling: Complete Wordly Wise 17B: Just the Right Word. B. Create word webs for the next three Wordly Wise 17 words (consist, drought, erode). C. Write definitions and sentences for the next two No Excuses words.

*2. Math: Complete classwork ~ pgs. 200 & 201 in Student Math Journal 1.

3. Language Arts: Complete Main Verbs and Helping Verbs.

*4. Science: Begin reading Erosion and Deposition and answering questions.

5. Reading: Continue reading Chapters 1-8 of Bud, Not Buddy. Note examples of figurative language: similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idiom, personification, alliteration. (Be sure to keep track of your reading in your reading log.)

Wednesday

1. Vocabulary/ Spelling: Complete Wordly Wise 17C: Applying Meanings. B. Create word webs the next three Wordly Wise 17 words (expand, famine, fertile). Be sure to include all definitions for each word on your webs. C. Write definitions and sentences for the last two No Excuses words (affect, effect)

2. Math________________________________________________. B. Complete class work if necessary.

3. Language Arts: Complete Parts of a Sentence: Direct Objects.

*4. Science: Complete reading Erosion and Deposition and answering questions.

5. Reading: Continue reading Chapters 1-8 of Bud, Not Buddy. (Be sure to keep track of your reading in your reading log.) Write a one paragraph summary of chapters 1-3.

Thursday

1. Vocabulary/ Spelling: Study for your vocabulary - spelling test by using syllabication to create 3 spelling pyramids for the first 8 WW17 words and for the 7 “No Excuses” words. Know definitions for all of this week’s words!

2. Math: ______________________________________________ B. Complete class work if necessary.

3. Language Arts: _________________________________________________________________

*4. Social Studies: Complete IB Inquiry Project. (Due tomorrow, Jan. 23).

5. Reading: Continue reading Chapters 1-8 of Bud, Not Buddy. Note examples of figurative language: similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idiom, personification, alliteration. (keep track of your reading in your reading log.)

Weekend:

1. Reading: Complete Chapters 1-8 of Bud, Not Buddy. Write a one paragraph summary of chapters 4-8.

2. Math: Depression Story Problems