Homework: EVERY DAY, student planners and classroom folders should be brought to and from school and home. Homework is for practicing skills learned in class or completing projects which require more time. Homework is not graded. However, if your student is not completing their homework and cannot show proficiency in the standards, they will not be given additional chances to show proficiency without having completed the homework.

• Reading:

  1. Students are expected to read daily at home, ideally for at least 20 minutes. But no amount of reading is too small. This includes magazines, books, comics, reading a picture book to a younger sibling, listening to audiobooks, or listening to someone else read aloud. It all counts. 

  2. Each quarter, students will receive a new Reading Response Journal which they will use to spend 5 minutes writing about what they have read every day. We will learn how to do this together as a class before students are expected to do it independently at home. This journal will go home & be brought back to school every day beginning about the 3rd week of school.

  3. Students are encouraged to practice their reading and language arts skills at home using their IXL account. 

• Math:

  1. Students should enter 5th grade already knowing their addition and subtraction math facts as well as skip counting for numbers 1-12. In the first quarter, students will be expected to have memorized their multiplication and division facts for numbers 1-12. There will be some time in class for students to practice but some students will also need to practice at home. Students who have not mastered their math facts will find the 5th grade math standards much more difficult.

  2. Students will have time in class to complete their homework if they work efficiently. Occasionally, they will need to bring unfinished work home to complete and return the next day.

  3. Students are encouraged to practice their math skills at home using their IXL account.