Ms. Bancroft's Homework Tracker

Students in my 5th grade ELA and History classes will only have assigned homework on Tuesday.  Occasionally an assignment might be given for something special and I will place it on the list below.  The most recent assignments will be on the top with older assignments below. 

Tuesday, October 20:  Students should read pages 382-389 (Trails to the West)  in their rather large Social Studies book.  It is really important that students read this section carefully before they take a quiz over it.  The quiz is in the History Google classroom and has already been assigned to them.  It is only 5 questions but reading is required for them to answered correctly. 

Tuesday, October 13:  Students will come home with a letter to whomever helps them with homework.  Their homework is to find a book they can bring to school everyday to read. I reinterated to the students that they did not need to go out a buy a new book but to make sure they have one to read.  They must get the letter signed by a parent and have the title of the book they brought to school with them.  Also, check out the cursive information that was included in the letter. 

Tuesday, October 6:  Students will be taking a vocabulary quiz in the next few weeks over the words we have been using in ELA.  Today's homework will give them practice with chunking those words into syllables and writing the definitions.  They can access these words in their ELA journals.  Here are the words just for your information:  culture, beliefs, values expansion, impact, prosperous, customs, homeland, prairie, platueau, sustain, natural resources, subsistence, semi-subterranean, sustenance, elaborate, oral traditions and collaborate. 

Tuesday, September 29:  Students were just introduced to Wordly Wise and were assigned exercises A, B, C, and D in Lesson 1.  Exercise E was optional.

Tuesday, September 22: Students should complete a worksheet on prepositional phrases (Handout 3D).  We had a quick introduction to this in class and will continue to work on identifying them in print and using them effectively in our writing.  Be sure your student answers the reflection question at the end.  

Tuesday, September 15: Students should complete their Constitution Lapbook.  Please see our History Google Classroom for resources. 

Tuesday, September 8:  Students should come home with a letter explaining that they need to try to log into Google Classroom and Skyward.  We went through some steps at school to help students get there.  Honestly, it was with limited success.  I am asking families to try to help get your student in.  Older siblings should be of some help also.  If you cannot get it, please write back to me on your student's letter under where you signed your name.   Thank you so much. 

Tuesday, September 1:  Students should complete Handout 1B: Family and Culture Web.  After completing the web, students should put a star by  one aspect that they would like to highlight and write a short paragraph describing that aspect in more detail. This paragraph could include a short story, examples, historical significance , emotions. etc.