Text Box: Homework Tips Make homework rules together with yourchild. When and where will it be done? What are the consequences if it is not done? Provide a quiet place for your child to do homework. Ask your child about his/her homework each night. Check assignments. Use positive words of encouragement. Encourage your child to work independently. Assist only if he/she needs help. Give your child a short break from his/her work if needed. Give your child a healthy snack before he/she begins working. Text Box: Questions, Concerns ??? Contact us at school 985-6411 mshepard@cartervillelions.com mhaake@cartervillelions.com Text Box: Haake/Shepard Monthly Newsletter Carterville Intermediate Text Box: Volume 9 Issue 2 September 5, 2008 Text Box: News and Information for the fifth grade students and their parent(s)

5th Grade

Newsflash
Text Box: Ask Your 5th Grader About. . . Text Box: Curriculum Update Reading—Various reading skills taught through weekly reading units, Vocabulary, Weekly tests over short story A.R.— Students should be reading a book within their reading range and logging the pages read. It is 10% of the reading grade. Language— Sentences and Persuasive Essays Math—Place Value, Adding & Subtracting Science—Process Skills Social Studies– Chapter 1 in text book Check our websites for daily news and assignments at www.cartervillelions,com Text Box: Policy Reminders **Keep signing assignment books and checking that your child has his/her homework completed each night. **Make sure your child has enough supplies: paper, pencils, red pens, pocket folders, etc. **The 5th grade late work policy is 20 % off for the first day late and a zero for the second day. **A.R. is 10% of the Reading grade each quarter. Encourage your child to read at night and/or tell you about what he has been reading. **F test papers will be recorded on the outside of the Friday folders. Text Box: Monthly Newsletter This is the first newsletter of many to come. Watch for a newsletter to come home with your child the first Friday of every month. The newsletter is a way for us to communicate with you on what is happening at school. You can expect to find information about class news, policies, upcoming events, and curriculum updates. If you don’t see a newsletter in your child’s “take-home” papers on the first Friday of every month, ask your child where it is. Attached to this newsletter is a form to sign that you saw the first newsletter. Please sign, detach, and send back to school with the take home folder on Monday, Sept. 8th. Text Box: Our New Class Technology Bioglyphs Scientist Pictures All About Me A.R. Goals Genre Bingo Really Big Numbers Really Little Numbers

Dates To Remember

9/11         Wear Red,                  White, & Blue

 

9/18         Early Dismissal

                 11:15

 

9/19         No School

                 Teacher Inservice

 

 

 

 
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