Benchmark Week #2!

Hello!

It's time to show what you know, 5th grade! This week begins our benchmark testing. Please be at school on time all week. Makeups are hard as you'll miss class the following week to make them up. Tuesday is our writing benchmark. Wednesday and Thursday are math and reading/multiple choice writing. I can't wait for our results to come in and for your successes to be shared.

Homework this week:
Monday- reading log and 3x each
Tuesday- spelling menu
Wednesday- spelling sentences
Thursday- study spelling words

Spelling words this week:
1. parts
2. history
3. warning
4. declare
5. despair
6. shirt
7. learning
8. backward
9. border
10. prepared
11. harsh
12. research
13. carnival
14. particular
15. squirrel
16. harmful
17. charms
18. disorder
19. favored
20. remark

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

The turkey, the potatoes, the stuffing, oh my! Happy Monday everyone and hooray for a short school week. Due to the holiday, our homework has changed for this week only. See below for all of this week's assignments.

Spelling words: No new words, just review of old ones, no test.

Math problems: No journal entries this week.

Reading log: Students should still read each night but no logging in the journal is required.

POW: None until after Thanksgiving

Science: Hypothesis for Science fair due on Wednesday

HOMEWORK PACKETS DUE WEDNESDAY
EXTRA CREDIT DUE MONDAY AFTER WE COME BACK

Biztown, Here we Come!

Hello families!

It's here! It's really here! Biztown week! I know everyone is excited and ready to go. I'm looking forward to seeing the students dressed to impress and ready to hit the work force. I'll try to send all pics as soon as I can upon our return. Below is the information for homework and assignments this week. Have a good one!

Mrs. DeBono

Homework:
Monday- math, reading log, study for states and capitals
Tuesday- NO HOMEWORK due to Biztown, pick students up at 5:30pm
Wednesday- math, reading log, study for states and capitals
Thursday- math, reading log, study for states and capitals

What's due?
1. Homework each day!
2. POW due Friday
3. States and Capitals test on Friday over midwestern states

Math Homework:
1. Simplify 65/85
2. Simplify 400/600
3. Simplify 81/108
4. 56 1/4 + 25 2/3
5. 16 1/7 - 9 2/3
6. 100, 125, 175, 250, ___, ____, ____
7. 7.3, 8.3, 9.3, 10.3, ____, ____, ____
8. 1.8, 2.5, 3.2, 3.9, ____, ____, ____
9. 4 2/3, 5, 5 1/3, ____, ____, ____
10. 8.9, 9.4, 9.9, ____, ____, ____
11. Round to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand... 34, 768
12. " " " ".... 8,754
13. " " " ".... 4,362
14. Using SCHOOL, find the probability of choosing a vowel.
15. Using SCHOOL, find the probability of choosing a consonant.
17. 2x - 4 = 20
18. 3r + 5 = 26
19. 9y - 10 = 44
20. 12w + 8 = 104
21. 6v - 7 = 29

NO SPELLING WORDS THIS WEEK

November 7-11th News

Hello 5th grade!

Here are this week's activities!

Homework schedule:
Monday- math problems, spelling 3x each, reading log, continue studying states/capitals
Tuesday- math problems, spelling menu, reading log, continue studying states/capitals
Wednesday- math problems, spelling sentences, reading log, continue studying states/capitals

Math problems:
1. change to a mixed number 67/4
2. change to a mixed number 24/5
3. change to a mixed number 76/3
4. simplify 60/95
5. simplify 56/64
6. simplify 25/150
7. simplify 36/48
8. 12 4/9 + 20 8/9
9. 15 1/5 - 9 3/5
10. 4 3/8 - 1 5/8
11. 27 1/7 - 20 3/7
12. 13 2/3 - 8 2/5
13. 5 1/4 + 12 2/3
14. 23 2/5 - 19 2/3
15. 4, 4 3/4, 5 1/2 ___, ____, ____
16. 12, 11.75, 11.5, ____, ____, ___
17. 8, 7 1/2, 7, 6 1/2 ____, ____, ___
18. 9, 9.5, 10, 10.5, ____, ____, ____
19. 16, 17 1/2, 19, ____, ____, ____
20. 14.7, 16.2, 17.7 ____, ____, ____
21. 2/9, 1/3, 4/9, 5/9, 2/3, ____, ____, ___

Spelling Words
1. soul
2. smoke
3. move
4. clue
5. fruits
6. lose
7. chose
8. stole
9. prove
10. produce
11. juice
12. drove
13. Tuesday
14. rescue
15. continue
16. issue
17. ego
18. argue
19. cruise
20. toll