Week of November 5

Science-​ HW for the weekend, p. 590-592 due Monday!

• Lesson 2: How matter changes
• Social studies-Early Explorers
  
  • Lesson 3: Spanish Explorers
    • ​This lesson has 6 vocab words and 8 explorers. We will have a quiz next Friday on the vocab

Important Dates: 

November 15-Annual Thanksgiving Mass and fall band concert. Come support our 5th graders in band!
November 21-23-Thanksgiving break
November 30-Geography Bee


Please email me at ginad@cccparish.org if you have any questions. I do check my email regularly. 

Google Classroom login info: 
email: first name last initial@cccparish.org (janeb@cccparish.org)
password: fifthpink# or fifthlime# (their # is their class #). 

​*Band is Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 2:35-3:15
Important October Dates

Sign up for class parties here https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4ca9ad2ba1f85-4thruderdahlstra

​Grading policy: 

I will grade students on a variety of assessments including, homework, tests, group work, participation and projects.  Students know that they need to be active participants in any group work and turn in their highest quality work in order to earn total possible points. 

If your child is absent, sometimes they can make up the work, but it's not always possible to do the exact work we did in class. I cannot replicate the support I give in a lesson and hand over work at the end of the day and expect your child to do it with out any class discussion or interaction with either peers or teacher.  Education is more than just the grade on a report card, it's an experience that happens at school. In instances where they need to make up work, I will give them a substitute assignment to complete on their own and turn back in. 

In general, if your student forgot to do their homework or receives work back with partial credit, they have one week to redo and turn back in, per our homework contract in 5th grade. I will not keep reminding them of this option, students need to be intrinsically motivated to increase their grade on their own. Not all homework can be turned in late. Some assignments are very timely to our class discussions and it's not worth doing after we have these discussions. 

For missing homework-each student will get 2 chances per quarter for missing homework to be replaced. (i.e. I need to make a copy of lost homework). 
These guidelines will help your student be organized, responsible and ready for 6th grade!