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Ms. Koval
5th Grade


Welcome to Miss Koval’s

5th - 8th Grade Classes

5th RELIGION

Textbook: Sadlier’s We Believe: We Meet Jesus in the Sacraments

Subject overview: This year our main focus is becoming more acquainted with and fully understanding the Seven Sacraments.

Christian Initiation

Healing

Service

Baptism

Reconciliation

Matrimony

Holy Eucharist

Anointing of the Sick

Holy Orders

Confirmation

 

 

The CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY WILL ALSO BE FOCUSED ON THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AT THE ACADEMY OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT.

TESTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN CLASS

Most Accurate Schedule will be in your child’s Assignment Pad

 

Review and information on the Web: http://www.webelieveweb.com

5th READING

We are now reading HOLES…

Written by Louis Sachar

 

 

      And so, Stanley Yelnats seems set to serve an easy sentence, which is only fair because he is as innocent as you or me. But Stanley is not going where he thinks he is. Camp Green Lake is like no other camp anywhere. It is a bizarre, almost otherworldly place that has no lake and nothing that is green. Nor is it a camp, at least not the kind of camp kids look forward to in the summertime. It is a place that once held "the largest lake in Texas," but today it is only a scorching desert wasteland, dotted with countless holes dug by the boys who live at the camp.

The trouble started when Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of shoes donated by basketball great Clyde "Sweetfeet" Livingston to a celebrity auction. In court, the judge doesn't believe Stanley's claim that the shoes fell from the sky onto his head. And yet, that's exactly what happened. Oddly, though, Stanley doesn't blame the judge for falsely convicting him. Instead, he blames the whole misadventure on his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." Thanks to this benighted distant relative, the Yelnats family had been cursed for generations. For Stanley, his current troubles are just a natural part of being a Yelnats.

At Camp Green Lake, the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the treacherous warden is searching for something, and before long Stanley begins his own search—for the truth.

Fate conspires to resolve it all—the family curse, the mystery of the holes, the drought that destroyed Green Lake, and also, the legend of Kissing Kate Barlow, an infamous outlaw of the Wild West. The great wheel of justice has ground slowly for generations, but now it is about to reveal its verdict.

READ WITH US TO FIND OUT MORE!!!

 

SCHEDULE:

WEEK OF JANUARY 24TH: CHAPTERS 1-7

WEEK OF JANUARY 31ST: CHAPTERS 8-17

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 7TH: CHAPTERS 18-28

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 14TH: CHAPTERS 29-39

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 21ST: CHAPTERS 40-50

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 28TH: REVIEW WEEK

 

Skills focused on in HOLES:

McGraw Hill~ Unit 4 Skills

Judgments and Decisions, Draw Conclusions, Suffixes, Graphic Aids: Diagram, Important Information, Root Words, Graphic Aids: Outline, Fact and Nonfact, Graphic Aids: Observation Chart, Graphic Aids: Weather Map, and Maps 

 

Tests: Both Vocabulary and Comprehension will be assessed weekly.

Vocabulary~ on Friday

Comprehension~ when section is completed

Skills will be assessed through class projects, assignments, Practice Book work, and there will be a Unit Test, which will be announced.

 

SPELLING

AND

VOCABULARY

 

Weekly Homework for Spelling/Vocabulary:

MONDAYS: DEFINE WORDS ON IN MARBLE NOTEBOOK

TUESDAYS: WRITE EACH WORD 4X EACH IN SCRIPT IN MARBLE NOTEBOOK

WEDNESDAYS: STORY OF THE WEEK IN NOTEBOOK… BE SURE TO USE THE WORDS CORRECTLY IN CONTEXT…

THURSDAYS:  www.spellingcity.com and STUDY FOR TEST!

Chapters 1-7

1. perseverance

2. gestured

3. expelling

4. deftly

5. scarcity

6. desolate

7. expanse

8. excavated

9. perimeter

10. juvenile

11. grimaced

12. stifling

13. preposterous

14. forlorn

15. spigot

 

 

Chapters 8-17

1. predatory

2. prey

3. upholstery

4. intensity

5. stationery

6. scowled

7. fossilized

8. radiated

9. appropriate

10. engraved

11. paranoid

12. excess

13. presumably

14. etched

15. evict

 

 

Chapters 18-28

1. calloused

2. writhed

3. defiance

4. venom

5. extraordinarily

6. concoctions

7. refuge

8. condemned

9. recede

10. penetrating

11. systematic

12. situated

13. precipice

14. increments

15. dread

 

 

Chapters 29-39

1. humid

2. drenched

3. horizon

4. delirious

5. depriving

6. jut

7. hesitated

8. feeble

9. investigation

10. cluster

11. refuge

12. fidgeting

13. lurched

14. mirage

15. protruding

 

 

Chapters 40-50

1. contritely

2. inexplicable

3. distinctive

4. adjacent

5. pronounced

6. authenticated

7. commotion

8. amid

9. precarious

10. jurisdiction

11. pursuant

12. legitimate

13. evicted

14. incarcerated

15. delirium

 

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 28TH : REVIEW WEEK

HOLES

Test: Spelling/ Vocabulary will be tested EVERY FRIDAY!

 

5th Language Arts

 

Mechanics and Grammar will be implemented in everyday writing and will be practiced and enhanced by using the Loyola Press Series Exercises in English.

 

Web links:

The Write Tools: http://www.thewritetools.net/

Empowering Writers: www.empoweringwriters.com

 

5th-8th WRITING

 

All students will be compiling a Writing Portfolio throughout the year in Language Arts Class/Writing Class.  All writing assignments and assessments will be kept in class for the students to view at their leisure.  I place a large emphasis on the ability to view progress over the course of the year.

 

Subject overview: Write!  Write! Write! Students will become better acquainted with the correct use of mechanics and grammar while implementing our fantastic writing programs, The Write Tools and Empowering Writers.