HOMEWORK and CLASSWORK for Room #19

Week of November 9th, 2006

E-Mail (kmcgroary@saugus.k12.ca.us)           Phone:  297-8860

Classroom Web Site URL - http://ro2.saugus.k12.ca.us/~kmcgroary/

Parent Signature: _______Student Signature:________  

School/Class Information

• 11/6 PTA Toy Drive begins


• 11/8 Muffins for Moms begins at 7:40


• 11/8 Rosie’s Corner meets at lunch


• 11/9 Picture make up day


• 11/9 Reflections Gala takes place in the MPR at 7:00 p.m.


• 11/10 Veterans’ Day – No School


• Chorus meets in Room 19 at 12:30

Projects and Due Dates

$100.00 Words

• For every $100.00 Word  you find in school or at home your group will earn valuable table/group points


• Strategies like using a computer search engine, or finding someone else to do the work for you, suffer from two serious drawbacks. The point of the exercise is to give you a lot of practice adding up numbers and learning new words.  Having someone else give you the words, or even adding up the scores for your guesses, is a little like asking someone else to practice a skateboarding trick, write and memorize a speech, dribble a soccer ball, or take batting practice for you. It's not going to do you much good.

Oral Language and Toastmasters Speeches 

• Selvin, Austin D., and Deion will give speeches on Monday morning.

Science:   Extra Credit
Diffusion/Osmosis Experiment 

• The write up is due on Monday morning.  It will not be accepted if turned in late.

City of Santa Clarita’s Human Relations Forum Essay and Poster Contest

1. Theme: What makes your family the same or different from another family?  What makes your family special?


2. Entries are due by Monday, December 11^th

Classwork Week of November 9 

Open Court Reading Gr. 5   

Unit 2: Lesson 1

Theme: “Astronomy”

Story: “Galileo” pages 102-112  --

Genre:  Biography   

Open Court Spelling and Vocabulary Objectives

Objective:  Review spelling pattern for the Long A Sound

 Open Court Spelling Workbook

• Review Long A Sound – pages 28-29


• Science Words – pages 26-27

Open Court Reading and Language Arts Workbook

• Capitalization : Places – pages 34-35


• Place and Location Words – pages 38-39

Inside Writing                                               

ReviewSentence Pattern #1 :  Subject + Verb

• Introduce and work on sentence Pattern #2 :  Subject + Action Verb + Direct Object

6 Traits Program

Why We Run with Scissors

Objective:

• Students will begin to develop their IDEA and VOICE traits through a series of exploratory lessons and daily Quick Writes.

 

Mathematics

Unit 3 – Multiplying Whole Numbers and Decimals

(Speed Drills and White Board Practice Every Day to Develop Numerical Fluency)

Chapter 10: Multiplication of Decimals

Lessons, Objectives, and Reviews

Mon – Hands On :  Multiply Whole Numbers and Decimals and Algebra: Patterns in Decimal Factors and Products – Pages 158-161

Tues – Model Decimal Multiplication – pages 162-163

Wed – Place the Decimal Point – pages 164-167

Thurs – Zeros in the Product – pages 168-169

Friday –

Science

Unit 1– “Systems of Living Things”

Ch 3-Lesson 1 “Plants and Their Adaptations” - Pages A60-A69

Continue working on pages A60-A61 and answer page 69 #1-5 in science journal

Social Studies

• What common ways of life developed among American Indian cultures?


• Unit 1 Lesson #2 – Follow format of textbook and do hands on activities

Homework:  Week of November 9

Reading

·        Complete fluency assignment with a parent and have it signed.

Math

·        Note:  This is a take home review quiz and will be checked on Thursday morning. 

·        Page H8 Practice 1-8 and Practice 1-9

• Page H 40.  Complete all of Set B, Set C and Set D.  Find the   products.  You can do the estimates mentally in your head.·    Page H 41.  Do Set B #5-12,  Set C # 5-8, and Set D # 5-8

1. Theme: What makes your family the same or different from another family?  What makes your family special?


2. Entries are due by Monday, December 11^th

HOMEWORK and CLASSWORK for Room #19

Week of May 26, 2006

E-Mail - kmcgroary@saugus.k12.ca.us                         Phone:  297-8860

Classroom Web Site URL - http://ro2.saugus.k12.ca.us/~kmcgroary/

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?"

Dear Parents,

STAR testing is completed, and I am very proud of how diligently our navigators worked on the reading, mathematics, and science tests.  We will take the Saugus School District’s grade five Mathematics computation and Language Arts writing tests on Monday and Tuesday mornings.  Remember, there are about three weeks of school left and few tests and projects must be completed, so please ensure your son/daughter continues working on his/her assigned tasks every night and remembers to turn in written assignments on their due dates.

Thanks,

Kevin

Classwork Week of May 26

Open Court Reading

Story – “The Coming of Long Knives”

Pages – 446-459

Genre – Historical Fiction

Open Court Spelling and Vocabulary Workbook

·         Foreign Words – Pages 118-119

·         Words with –tion, sion, or –sure – pages 120-121

Open Court Reading and Language Arts Workbook

Review Open Court Reading/Language Arts rules and strategies

• Sequence – 150-151


• Punctuation and Capitalization in Business Letters – 156-157


• Structure of a Business Letter – 158-159

Writing

• District Writing Sample

Island Project

• All students will work on this writing assignment

Mathematics

Chapter 29 “Surface Area and Volume”

Polyhedraville – Begin planning your city’s layout.  Work on team budget.

• Monday – Pages 546-555

• Tues – Pages 555-561


• Wed – Pages 570-571


• Thurs – Ch. 30 Probability  - Friday – Probability Experiments

Social Studies

Chapter 14 “The Constitution of the United States”

Mon:  382-393

Tues:  396-405

Chapter 15 “The Young Nation”

Wed: 410-415

We will spend time throughout the week preparing for Thursday’s Open House (7:00-8:00).

Homework:  Week of May 26

Reading

• Read for at least one hour each night. 


• This is an excellent time to read and take as many AR quizzes as possible

Social Studies

• Finish classroom reading assignments

Go to the Border’s/Rosedell Book Fair and support the PTA.

Open House on Thursday.

Final Awards Assembly is on Friday.

This Friday, I will provide pizza, salad, drinks, and cookies to all students who completed an additional 600 minutes of reading during the Magic Mountain Reading Program. Winning students will eat lunch in Room 19 on Friday. 

• Sequence – 150-151


• Punctuation and Capitalization in Friendly Letters – 152-153


• Structure of a Friendly Letter – 154-155

• Monday – Pages 546-555


• Tues – Pages 555-561


• Wed – Pages 570-571


• Thurs – Math Art for Open House


• Friday – Math Art for Open House

• Mon – Read pages A64-A69


• Tues – Read pages A102 –A107


• Review Scientific Method

• Read for at least one hour each night. 


• This is an excellent time to read and take as many AR quizzes as possible

• Take your book home and review the chapters we have studied in class.


• If you have any questions -- Ask them in class.

• I am available from 7:10 a.m. until school starts every day this week to review any math concepts you do not understand.


• Review multiplication tables


• Memorize all of the required geometry formulas for perimeter, circumference, and areas of two- and three-dimensional shapes.


• Review textbook and ask questions in class.

HOMEWORK and CLASSWORK for Room #19
Week of April 28, 2006
E-Mail - kmcgroary@saugus.k12.ca.us Phone: 297-8860
Classroom Web Site URL - http://ro2.saugus.k12.ca.us/~kmcgroary/

Children know something that most people have forgotten.
Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could learn to understand and respect it.
Keith Haring

Dear Parents and Students,
I hope everyone is having a safe and restful spring break. STAR testing begins shortly after we return to school, so it is important to read every day for at least one hour, to review science concepts taught during grades three through five, and to practice math facts regularly during this long break. The local teacher supply store adjacent to Trader Joe’s, Barnes and Noble, and Borders have test preparation books and materials available for families who are interested in spending some free time practicing together.
Please remind your navigator that when school begins, it is important to maintain consistent homework and test preparation habits. Please encourage your navigator to make choices that positively affect his/her academic performance.
Cheers,
Kevin

Classwork: Week of April 28

Daily Reading Comprehension Skill Quizzes
· Mon - “Facts
· Tues - “Sequence”
· Wed - “Context Clues”
· Thurs - “Main Idea”
· Fri - “Reaching a Conclusion”

Open Court Reading
Story - “Sacagawea’s Journey”
Pages - 390-403
Genre - Biography

Open Court Spelling and Vocabulary Workbook
Synonyms - pages 110-111
Words with dis- and mis- pages 112-113

Open Court Reading and Language Arts Workbook
· Review - pages 30-31
· Review - pages 66-67
· Review - pages 96-97
· Review - pages 136-137
· Review - pages 182-183
· Review - pages 186-187
· Review - pages 196-197
· Review - pages 200-201

Mathematics - Dividing Fractions
· Monday - Review of Dividing Fractions and Fractions pages 410-411 - Unit 6 Test
Mathematics
Unit 7- Chapter 23 Algebra, Geometry and “Polyhedraville”
· Monday - Subtract Integers 426-429
· Tues - Review and Chapter 23 Quiz
· Wed - Geometry and the Coordinate Plane
· Thurs - Plane Figures
· Friday - Measurement

Science - Review
· Mon - Read pages A6-A13
· Tues - Read pages A16-A21
· Wed - Read pages A24-A27
· Thurs - Read pages A64-A69
· Friday - Read pages A102 -A107

Homework: Week of April 28
Spelling Practice:
Objective: Dictionary Skills
Project: “Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?”
· Use a dictionary to find words (spelled correctly) that go in each column of the chart.
· Signed by Parent

Language Practice
· Take Home Test Review
· Do all of the Unit Tests: Vocabulary, Sentences, Grammar and Usage, Capitalization and Punctuation, Composition, and Study Skills
· Signed by Parent

Reading Practice
Read each passage and answer the questions
· Poem - “A Southern Spring”
· Story - “The Parachute”
· Story - “Flitter the Butterfly”
· Poems - “Two Worlds,” “Frosty,” and “An Apple Tree”
· Advertisement - “Central Park West”
· Signed by Parent

Math Skills Review
· A Coordinate Graph
· Bear Tracks Seen - Pictograph
· The Purple Martin - Bar Graph
· Gumball Flavors - Circle Graph
· Signed by Parent

Anyone have any ideas or programs I need to download and edit student videos from a digital camera.? I would like to view them on the classroom monitor and view them using QuickTime.