Week of December 16th

Language Arts
Monday-none (So you can study for your science test tomorrow!)
Wednesday-Practice Book pg. 112
Thursday-Practice Book pg. 114 and study for spelling test tomorrow
Grinch Day tomorrow. Wear green!
*+10 Extra credit points added to your reading test available*
Due Friday-Details given in class. Take advantage of this!!!!!


Spelling Words:
border, chapter, anger, passenger, thunder, quarter, proper, bitter, adviser
flavor, mayor, senator, major, tractor, elevator, clamor, tremor
cougar, cellar, popular, pillar, calendar, lunar, stellar, circular

Social Studies
No current event this week
Famous landmarks of Asia power points-done in class

Week of December 9th

Language Arts
Monday-Buckle Down pgs. 44-48  No homework passes!
Tuesday-Snow Day!!
Wednesday-none See you at the concert! Report to the art room at 5:30.
Thursday-Study for reading test tomorrow

No spelling test this week.

Social Studies
Current Events due Friday

Week of December 2nd

Language Arts
Monday-Practice Book pg. 100
Tuesday-Practice Book pg. 102
Wednesday-Study for reading test "Storm Warriors"
Thursday-Study for spelling test

Spelling words:
One word-wildlife, uproar, headache, teammate, wheelchair, throughout, barefoot, warehouse, overboard, outspoken, awestruck, newscast. motorcycle, overseas, stomachache

Hyphens- top-secret, well-known, part-time, up-to-date, quick-witted

Separate words-home run, light bulb, post office, life preserver, bulletin board

Social Studies-5L
Current Event due Friday

Week of November 25th

Language Arts-
No reading or spelling test this week.
Due Tuesday-List of five idioms or adages and where you heard or saw them.
My Access writing prompt is due by December 2nd.
We will work on it Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in writing class this week.

Please write at home too!
My Access


Social Studies-5L

No current Event this week.

Week of November 18th

Language Arts
Monday- Practice Book pg. 88
Tuesday-Practice Book pg. 90
Wednesday- Study for reading test "Everglades Forever"
Thursday-Study for spelling test-Homophones

Spelling Words:
steel/steal, ring/wring, who's/whose, site/sight/cite
aloud/allowed, lesson/lessen, manor/manner, pedal/peddle, berry/bury, hanger/hangar, canvass/canvas
overdo/overdue

Social Studies-5L
Current Events due Friday

Week of November 11th

Language Arts
Monday-pg. 76 Practice Book
 Tuesday- pg. 78 Practice Book
Wednesday-Study for reading test "Old Yeller"
Thursday- Study for spelling test

Spelling Words:
earth, research,yearn
twirl, squirm, thirsty,
burnt, further, murmur,
nerve, alert, reverse, interpret, external,
worthwhile, worship,
peer, career, volunteer, engineer
smear, appear, weary, dreary,
pier

+5 extra credit added to your reading test "Interrupted Journey" if you rewrite your essay including all the information and hand it in by Friday.

Social Studies-5L
Current Event due Friday

Week of November 4th

Language Arts
No homework this week unless you are absent.
No spelling or reading tests this week.

Social Studies
No Current Events this week

I look forward to meeting with your parents at conferences this week.

Week of October 28th

Language Arts
Monday-Practice Book pg. 64
Tuesday-Practice Book pg. 66
Wednesday-Study for reading and spelling test tomorrow
Thursday-none Happy Halloween!

Social Studies
No current Events this week

Spelling Words: glory, torch, absorb, perform, former, adore, ordeal, aboard, soar warn,
forfeit, orchestra, hoard
aware, barely, beware, dairy, stairway, vary, rarity
carton, pardon, barge, armor, discard

Week, of October 21st

Language Arts
Monday-Study for 50 word spelling test on Friday every day this week.
Tuesday- Chapters 31-35 Holes Quiz tomorrow
Wednesday-Chapters 41-45 Holes  Quiz tomorrow
Thursday-Study for big spelling test tomorrow

Spelling words this week:
weather, direct, breath, instruct, physical, frantic, promise, crush, gravity, energy
display, motivate, release, repeat, greet, praise, succeed, betray, beneath, thief
height, approach, brighten, reply, silent, defy, excite, sign, define, require, avenue
view, lose include, choose, conclude, youth, pursuit, loose, route, ounce,
loyal, avoid, moist, haunt, destroy, awkward, exhaust, assault, August, their

Social Studies-5L
Current Events due Friday- Theme: Sports

Week of October 15th

Language Arts
Tuesday- Read Chapters 1-5 in Holes Quiz tomorrow
Wednesday-Read Chapters 6-10 in Holes Quiz tomorrow
Thursday- pgs. 28-31  Buckle Down Book

There is no spelling test this week.

Social Studies-5L
Current Events due Friday
World News- Please make sure this story takes place outside of the United States.

Week of Respect, October 7th

Language Arts
Monday-Practice Book pg. 52
Tuesday-Practice Book pg. 54
Wednesday-Study for reading test
Thursday- Study for spelling test

Spelling words this week:
ounce, pounce, encounter, scowl, coward,
sprawl, awkward, launch, haunt, saucer, August, auction, basketball, exhaust, assault, alternate
naughty
loyal, destroy, royal, avoid, moist, poison, poise, loiter

Social Studies-5L
Current Events due Friday- This week should be a national story. Anything that takes place in the United States is OK. Please try to pick one of the other 49 states besides New Jersey, since last week was from here.

Week of September 30th

Language Arts
Monday-Pg. 40 Practice Book
Tuesday-Pg. 42 Practice Book
Wednesday-Study for Reading Test
Thursday-Study for Spelling Test

Spelling Words: flute, include, assume, conclude, intrude, presume
glue, avenue, subdue
youth, route, souvenir
bruise, cruise, pursuit
stew, jewel
choose, loose, cartoon
accuse, execute, confuse
lose, view
thousands, thousandths


Social Studies
Current Event due Friday
This week's article should be an article about something that happened in New Jersey.

Week of September 23rd

Language Arts
Monday- pg. 28 Practice Book
Tuesday-pg. 30 Practice Book
Wednesday- Study for reading test tomorrow
Thursday- Study for spelling test tomorrow

Spelling words this week: tens tenths, strike, excite, define, sign, spider, silent, require
mighty, slight, brighten, reply, apply, plight, defy
compose, stroll, odor, control, opponent
groan, approach, thrown, reproach
height, dough

Social Studies-5L
Current events this week must be from the Local section of the newspaper. That means they should be stories about Oxford or Warren County.

Parents-  See you at Back to School Night Tuesday at 6:00!

Week of September 16th

5L- Book Fair visit-9:00 Thursday

Language Arts
Monday-pg. 16 Practice Book
Tuesday-pg. 18 Practice Book
Wednesday-Study for reading test tomorrow
Thursday-Study for spelling test tomorrow
Spelling Words for the week:
hundred, hundredths, awake, braces, ashamed, motivate,
praise, waist, remain, training, terrain
stray, display, sway, betray,
feast, disease, repeat, beneath, release, upheaval,
greet, sleeve, sheepish, succeed, thief, niece


Social Studies-5L
Wednesday- Map quiz continents, oceans, cardinal directions and hemispheres
Current Events due Friday

Week of September 9th

Language Arts-
Monday-pg. 6 Practice Book
Tuesday-9-11 Interview written or typed in an essay.
Wednesday-Study for reading test tomorrow
Thursday-Study for spelling test tomorrow
Spelling Words for this week; grasp gravity, frantic, massive, breath, direct, feather, weather, energy,
distress, blister, hymn, swift, stingy, instruct, physical, wobble, promise, comic, solid, crush, numb, shovel, bundle, summit

Social Studies-5L
Current Event due Friday

Welcome Back!!!!

I am so excited to have you in my class. It's going to be a spectacular year.
Please return all forms to school by Friday.

Language Arts-5th grade
Summer Reading packet due by Friday
9-11 interview is due on September 11th, next Wednesday

Social Studies-
Cover textbook