ANY PAPER THAT THE CHILD IS DISPLEASED WITH MAY BE CORRECTED, SUBMITTED, AND AVERAGED FOR A BETTER GRADE THE FOLLOWING DAY.
Please do not wait if you feel a conference is needed. Call me at home or write an e-mail, and I will return the call as soon as possible. This can be incorporated with the PARENT PORTAL. If you have not done so, please stop by the office for signing information.
All assignments are given ORALLY after instruction and WRITTEN on the whiteboard daily. It is the child's responsibility to write each assignment in the AGENDA regularly.
Do not forget to go to STUDY ISLAND as it will be open. It is AWESOME.
REMEMBER: FIVE (5) BOOKS ARE TO BE READ AND TESTS TAKEN PER NINE WEEKS.
One of those will be a BIOGRAPHY with a project to follow.
A huge THANK YOU for making our party a major success! For those who attended and those who sent goodies, you are all appreciated! All of the kids enjoyed the variety of available foods.
Also, for those who sent me extras, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Each item is appreciated and will be properly enjoyed.
English: We will begin doing more writing in January for our up-coming STATE WRITING TEST in February. Penmanship, spelling, sentence structure, proper use of punctuation, keeping ON topic, having a beginning, middle, and conclusion, etc. are all required. Any topic is possible for the prompt. All fifth graders in Oklahoma will take the same test on the same date. ( A practice prompt has already been done and will be checked by a different teacher. The results will be given the first week in January.)
Spelling Unit 14. Begin with the first page by writing the list of all 30 words. This will be officially assigned on January 6, 2010. The other pages are 90 - 91, 93.
Science: . We are continuing the animal environment unit. Workbook and/or worksheets will compliment this unit. New VOCABULARY words should be written w/ definitions and placed in the child's folder.
Math: Our third quarter will have several new areas of work. However, the BASICS are a MUST to be able to accomplish what is required. So, keep practicing, even in the car by looking at the tag numerals and seeing how many problems you can create.
DIVISION is following multiplication. Daily work is assigned either through the text or with extra practice being done on worksheets.
Take a few minutes DAILY to do quick reviews of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This brief review will pay great dividends in the long run. SPEAK with your child when traveling, eating, watching comercials, and just one-to-one time to see what is on tap this week. Please challenge your child to mini moments of practice while in a car, at the table, during commercials, etc. Look at car tags, multiply first and third numerals, add or subtract the numerals and create interesting problems.
Use of PLAYING CARDS will be helpful/FUN activities with Ace as 1 through 9... two players laying 3 to 5 cards down...add, subtract, multiply, expand, use exponents, and other fun activities will be used. (Eventually, we will use cards to increase our fraction skills.) Create largest or smallest possible numeral with the numerical cards, or use as decimal places through the thousandths' place to locate the least possible numeral.
Also, playing dice can be used in a similar manner. Simply create rules for your family. Use one to five dice and roll for first player. Select two or three numerals and multiply or divide by one, two, or three digits.
METRIC is a real word. Ask your child about "King Henry Died by Drinking Chocolate Milk."
SOCIAL STUDIES
Please write me a note that I am writing this information for you and your child. I really need to know that I am doing this for you. Either write me at school: coblef@mustangps.org or at home: fcoble@cox.net to let me know that I am not the only one reading my assignments.
Thanks for your support.
Mr. C