Holiday Homework

5^th grade Christmas Break Homework
Social Studies 
Read the newspaper and select an article. Write a summary (1-3 paragraphs maximum) about the article telling who, what, where, when, why and what you liked about it.

Math 
Simple Solutions: Lessons 19-24

Practice your multiplication 6’s, 7’s, 8’s, 9’s, 11’s. 
          - See practice log

Try and list all prime numbers to 100. 
Try and list all composite numbers to 100. 

Reading and Writing 
Reading Log –

Check your reading responses:

1) Can my teacher tell that I read the passage?

2) Did I write a summary, an opinion or a recommendation?

3) Did I support my answer with information (details) from the text?

4) Did my writing relate to the story or article?

Science 
(Optional)

Get ready for the Science Experiments by checking out an experiment book from the public library. Look for topics that interest you. Talk to Mr. Del Toro for more information about the Science Experiments.

  

Grammar Games

More Grammar Games

Class News!!

Hello Everyone,

As Christmas draws near, I would like to remind you all about our toy drive.  All (new and unwrapped) toys will be sent to the Los Angeles Fire Department's, Spark of Love Toy Drive.  All toys are distributed through Social Services to children in foster care, who will wake up on Christmas morning without their moms and their dads and in an unfamiliar home.

Please find it in your hearts to pick out a new toy for this drive, so that each child in Los Angeles can wake up Christmas morning and have something to call their own.

Class Business:
1) Christmas Program: Thursday, December 16 at 7:00pm.  Please have students arrive by 6:30.

• Wear: "Christmas Best"
• No jeans.
• Dress pants or slacks for the boys.
• Dresses or skirts for the girls.

2) The next ten states... Students need to know: 1) How to spell the state and the capital.  2) Where they are located on the map/the shape of the state.  3) Which state and capital go together.

• Maryland
• West Virginia
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Georgia
• Kentucky
• Alabama
• Florida

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!   

Thanksgiving Reminders:

1. Homework:
1. Reading Log - 15-30 minutes per day.
2. Practice math facts (approx 10 minutes a day (or more)... Many fifth graders are still counting on their fingers and spending valuable time on basic facts... it will soon become very difficult as the math intensifies in difficulty.
3. Lastly, practice your Christmas Program song!!  Please sing it to your parents....as many times as they can stand it! (:

1. Tests/Quizzes:

• Vocabulary Unit 3 (book)
• Math Ch. 4
• Social Studies 
• Gear up for states and capitals! We will begin quizzing on regions of the country, starting first with the north east coast.

Thank you and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Lennon

Happy Halloween!

Be safe on Halloween and remember early morning mass on Monday, November 1, All Saints Day!

Week of Monday, November 1

Reminder, on Monday, Nov. 1, be sure to have your children to school early!  Yikes, we have mass the day after Halloween!  It is All Saints Day, a holy day of obligation.  

Also next week Friday, we will have a vocabulary test on the following words:

blunder

cancel

continuous

distribute

document

fragile

myth

reject

scuffle

solitary

temporary

veteran

Thank you to all the parents who donated to the Simple Solutions Math Book purchase.  The students received their books this week and have already begun to work in these great resources.

Welcome to Mrs. Lennon's first Post!

The new St. Jerome Blog spots are up and running! Yay!  Now you can visit me here to find all the latest information.

Next week, we will continue testing.  The third, fifth and seventh grades continue with the COGAT Tests. Thank you to all the parents who have sent an email to my LennonSJS@me.com address.  Our class will be a great success with open lines of communication.

As all the technology comes together, you will notice more of the student's grades posted on gradelink.  Please be patient as more grades are entered throughout the next couple of weeks, which will get us all up to speed from the beginning of the year.

You can visit gradelink at:

Gradelink (Click Here)


One last thank you to all those parents who attended the school mass on Thursday.  The fifth grade students were so happy to see your faces in the congregation!  I know many of the students told me, I saw my mom and started to sing louder! Ha! Great job!

Thanks for all your support this year!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Lennon