My 5th and 6th grade reading classes will have vocab quizzes every Friday. We typically introduce the words on Monday, work with them during the week, then take the quiz on Friday. Every 3-4 weeks, we will take a week off and have a vocab bee to review and reinforce the words we've already studied. My 5th and 6th grade social studies classes have undertaken a geography mission. We will be taking a small geography quiz each week as we slowly build our familiarity with the continents, oceans, states, and countries of the world. My 5th and 7th grade reading classes have a book report to do each month. This project is explained at length in a letter sent home early in the year. The summary should be 1-1 1/2 pages, the critique should be about 1 page of the student's thoughts on the book, and the picture should be on white copy paper and simply needs to portray a scene from the book in detail and color. Children should have their books okayed by Mr. Antosh as soon as they know what they'll be reading. The reports are typically collected on the 1st of each month, or the nearest school day to that date.