Mrs. Gartha's 5th Grade Blog

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends and family!  It’s now time to get back to work!  This week, we have some special events taking place:

Tuesday– Math-a-Thon

Thursday-Celebration Assembly 2:15 to 3:15

Friday– Parent Literacy Meeting @ 1:30

Please make every effort to join us for the Parent Literacy Meeting on Friday afternoon.  We really need to get our students reading and writing to insure success!  Check out the chart below.

We had two students go home today sick.  If your child is complaining of a stomachache or a sore throat, please keep them home.

Tomorrow’s lunch menu will be Quesadillas not Bean and Cheese Burritos.

Homework

Spelling– Write your words 3 times each in your spiral.  Sign and correct your test.

Math– Do Succeed pgs. 61-62.  Practice for the Math-a-Thon

Read 20 minutes and write in your log.

This Week’s Objectives

Literacy

-The students will work at analyzing a personal letter and identifying its parts, relationships of events in using chronological order and inferencing in text.

Writing

– The students will work on a new opinion paper and how to use appropriate transition words.

Science

-The students will study the water on Earth, where it is found and how to protect it from contaminants.

Social Studies

– The students will be studying the American native Indians, their locations and comparing and contrasting them.

Math

-The students will work on dividing whole numbers and decimals.

 

Spelling Words

1. cruel
2. novel
3. quarrel
4. fossil
5. label
6. pupil
7. apparel
8. channel
9. pencil
10. cancel
11. utensil
12. nostril
13. level
14. squirrel
15. pretzel
16. division
17. divisor
18. dividend
19. quotient
20. model

 

Spelling Words List #2

 

1. travel
2. tunnel
3. pupil
4. cancel
5. until
6. pencil
7. label
8. evil
9. level
10. towel
11. model
12. channel