If your goal this year is to make the Principals Honor Roll List, here are some suggestions for success: 1. Plan out a homework schedule. About seventy-five minutes of homework is expected each day for fifth grade. If you use your time very wisely in class, you may complete your homework early and use that time for independent reading. (Remember that 80-100 minutes a week are required for independent reading. A Reading Counts quiz is taken every month and once a trimester there will be a reading project due). 2. Make sure that all assignments are neat and proudly display your FULL NAME in the upper right-hand corner of the paper. Write the DATE beneath your name. Include the SUBJECT on the third line. Write your STUDENT NUMBER in the upper left-hand corner (and remember to include your teachers initial). 3. Be prepared for each day with the tools you will need and the assignments that are due. ALL ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE COLLECTED AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH CLASS. Late assignments (without a parent note) will result in a lower grade. During the first quarter, your grade will be reduced by 10%. Five additional percentage points will be subtracted with each subsequent quarter. Therefore, a late assignment turned in during the fourth quarter will lose 25 percentage points. 4. Participate in all class discussions. Your ideas are important! 5. Proofread carefully to correct mistakes before turning your work in! (Points will be deducted for writing mechanics). 6. Show your work on ALL MATH ASSIGNMENTS. Remember to use labels on word problems. BOX YOUR ANSWERS! 7. Read, Read, READ! 8. Always do your best, and let us know how hard you are trying. Your effort really counts!