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2011-2012

REMINDERS,

TESTS,

and

UPCOMING EVENTS

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**WEEK OF 2/6/12 - 2/10/12**

**THIS IS "B" WEEK**

**UPDATED: 2/3/12**

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LIST FOR SEPTEMBER 6, 2011!**

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**EXTRA HELP - TUESDAY, 2/7/12 - IS CANCELLED!**

**I will be at BHS all day at a district training session**

1. Argonauts' Field Trip - Monday, 2/6 -

**Place: Cradle of Aviation**

2. English - Test Monday, 2/6 -

**Topic: "Verbs"**

3. Report Cards Mailed Home - Monday, 2/6

4. CBS / Book Fair - Tuesday, 2/7 to Thursday, 2/9 -

**Class Visit: Thursday, 2/9**

5. EXTRA HELP - Tuesday, 2/7 - is CANCELLED!**

**I will be at BHS all day at a district training session**

6. Class Field Trip - Wednesday, 2/8 -

**Place: Morelly Homeland Security Building, 510 Grumman Road West, Bethpage**

**Time: 8:45 - 11:30 A.M.**

**Chaperones: Mrs. Cobb and Mrs. Ingenito**

7. Math - Test Wednesday, 2/8 -

**Topic: Text / Chapter 9 / "Use Factors and Multiples"**

**A Vocabulary review sheet was given out Wednesday, 2/1**

8. Jump Rope for Heart - Wednesday, 2/8 -

**Place: CBS Gym**

**Time: 3:00 - 4:15 P.M.**

9. Reading - Test Thursday, 2/9 -

**Story: "Goin' Someplace Special"**

**The Vocabulary word list was posted Friday, 1/27**

10. Spelling - Test Thursday, 2/9 -

**Story: "Goin' Someplace Special"**

**Skill: Final Sounds: / -el / -le / -il / -all / + / -en / -in / -an / -on / -ain /**

**The Spelling word list was posted Wednesday, 2/1**

11. CBS / Evening Book Fair - Thursday, 2/9 -

**Time: T.B.A.**

14. Pretzel Day - Wednesday, 2/15

15. CBS / Lip Sync Rehearsal - Thursday, 2/16 -

**Place: B.H.S.**

**Time: T.B.A.**

16. CBS / Lip Sync - Friday, 2/17 -

**Place: B.H.S.**

**Time / Performers - 6:15 P.M.**

**Time / Show: 7:00 P.M.**

**Ticket Prices: General Ticket - $4.00 / Participating CBS Student - $3.00 /

Non-Participating CBS Student - $4.00**

**Ticket Pick Up Date: Friday, 2/10 from 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.**

17. Winter Recess - Monday, 2/20 - Friday, 2/24 -

**School will be in session Monday, 2/27**

18. State Report / List of Reference Materials - Due Week of 2/27 -

**I will discuss this report with the children next week (week of 2/6)**

**I will give each student a folder with information pertaining to this report**

**This folder will include a:

a) How to Organize Your State Report packet

b) list of due dates / due dates must be met or points will be taken off the final report

c) packet of outlined illustrations to be included in the report**

**No two students will research the same state**

**I will need a written list of reference materials that will be used for each state report

due the week of 2/27 (any day that week)**

**These reference materials will become a part of the report's bibliography**

19. Board of Education Meeting - Tuesday, 2/28 -

**Place: B.H.S.**

**Time: 8:00 P.M.**

20. NYS / ELA Testing - Tuesday, 4/17, Wednesday, 4/18, + Thursday, 4/19

21. NYS / Math Testing - Wednesday, 4/25, Thursday, 4/26, + Friday, 4/27

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**FOR YOUR REFERENCE, I HAVE INCLUDED

THE REQUIRED BOOK REPORT / MINI-RESEARCH PROJECT

FORMAT ON THIS HOME PAGE**

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**READING: VOCABULARY WORDS**

**Story: "Goin' Someplace Special"**

**Reading Test: **Thursday, 2/9**

**The Vocabulary word list was posted Friday, 1/27**

**SPELLING WORDS**

**Story: "Goin' Someplace Special"**

**Skill: **Final schwa sounds: -el, -le, -il, -all + -en, -in, -an, -on, -ain**

**Spelling Test: **Thursday, 2/9**

**The Spelling word list was posted Wednesday, 2/1**

**Math: Vocabulary Words**

**Chapter 9 - "Use Factors and Multiply"**

**Math Test - Text / Chapter 9 / Lessons 1-4 - Tuesday, 1/31**

**Math Test - Text / Chapter 9 - Wednesday, 2/8**

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OUR DAILY SCHEDULE

**TUESDAY** **There are no lessons scheduled for Tuesday**

**WEDNESDAY**

**THURSDAY** **There are no lessons scheduled for Thursday**

**FRIDAY**

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**INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS**

**Updated: 2/3/12**

**Changes will be posted as they occur**

**I have posted Ms. Hall's instrumental lesson schedule**

**I have only included my students' groups**

**If you need to know the schedule

of any other 3rd, 4th or 5th grade student,

please refer to the printed schedule Ms. Hall gave her students**

**MONDAY** **There are no lessons scheduled for Monday**

**TUESDAY** **There are no lessons scheduled for Tuesday**

**WEDNESDAY**

**THURSDAY** **There are no lessons scheduled for Thursday**

**FRIDAY**

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**GROUP / DAY OF WEEK / STUDENT**

**Updated: 2/3/12**

**Changes will be posted as they occur**

**Patrick Varley - Wednesday - Orchestra / Group R - Cello**

**Christopher Stronstad - Wednesday - Orchestra / Group M - Violin**

**Amanda Rigby - Wednesday - Orchestra / Group M - Violin**

**Victoria Nardulli - Wednesday - Orchestra / Group M - Violin**

**Brian Seeley - Friday - Band / Group DD - Baritone Horn**

**Madison Buttice - Friday -Band / Group DD - Baritone Horn**

**Cameron Leary - Friday - Band / Group BB - Trumpet**

**Michael Raman - Friday - Band / Group BB - Trumpet**

**Jordan Prechtel - Friday - Band / Group BB - Trumpet**

**Isabella Ingenito - Friday - Band / Group Z - Clarinet**

**Elizabeth Cobb - Friday - Band / Group Z - Clarinet**

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**CENTRAL BOULEVARD SCHOOL**

**MRS. COHEN - 5TH GRADE - ROOM 203**

**CLASS SUPPLY LIST**

1. Three hard-covered marble composition notebooks, to be used for:

a) Spelling and English

b) Social Studies and Science

c) Math

2. One pocket folder

3. One large, cloth (not plastic) pencil pouch, to include at all times:

a) 2 sharpened pencils

b) 2 blue or black ball-point pens (not erasable, felt-tipped, or gel)

c) 2 ball-point marking pens - any color except blue or black (not erasable, felt-tipped, or gel)

d) 1 basic 6-inch clear plastic protractor

4. One box of thin, colored, water based, washable markers

5. One (NOT two) small box of tissues

**to be kept on your desk for your personal use, to be replaced, as needed,

when the box is empty**

6. One dozen-size cardboard egg carton

**minus the eggs, of course!**

**Please DO NOT write your name on the carton**

7. Headphones for the Dell Computer -

**Please secure it in a clear, freezer-size Ziploc bag (NOT sandwich-size baggie)**

**Label this bag with your first and last name**

8. Smock for Art

**Write your first and last name on the label**

9. Homework Buddy -

**Bring in the names of 2 buddies who will be able to take your work home for you

when you are absent**

10. ITEMS NOT TO BRING IN:

**ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ITEMS

WILL BE PROVIDED IN CLASS, IF NEEDED**

a) ruler

b) scissors

c) Wite-Out or Liquid Paper

d) pencil sharpener

e) stapler

f) staple remover

g) tape

h) glue

i) rubber bands

j) extra packages of composition or loose-leaf paper

11. ALWAYS BRING IN:

**One smile for each day you spend in 5th grade!**

**Your willingness to work hard and do your very best quality work in all subject areas!**

**BOOK REPORT**

**and**

**MINI- RESEARCH PROJECT**

**DUE DATES FOR BOTH PROJECTS WILL BE

THE LAST SCHOOL DAY OF THE MONTH**

**BOTH PROJECTS MUST INCLUDE:**

**a front and back cover**

**two pieces of construction paper will do**

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**THE FRONT COVER SHOULD INCLUDE:**

a) BOOK REPORT: book title/book author's name

b) MINI-RESEARCH PROJECT: topic title (name of animal or sport)

c) BOTH REPORT AND PROJECT: the student's name in the lower right-hand corner

d) BOTH REPORT AND PROJECT: an illustration on the front cover is suggested,

but not required

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**THE TEXT SHOULD INCLUDE:**

a) BOOK REPORT: an introduction of characters (fiction genre),

or an introduction of the topic read (nonfiction genre)

b) BOOK REPORT: a summary, minimum one-page typewritten,

using double-spaced lines

c) BOOK REPORT: a recommendation - would this book be interesting

for others to read? Why or why not?

d) MINI-RESEARCH PROJECT: an introduction of the topic researched,

descriptive details (including interesting facts and information), and a conclusion

e) MINI-RESEARCH PROJECT: an informal list of the sources used -

encyclopedia (title), internet web site (name of site), book (title and author) -

written on a separate page entitled BIBLIOGRAPHY

**The bibliography page should be the last page of the report**

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**A Book Report will be assigned in September, November,

January, and February**

**SEPTEMBER = Book Report: ONE of the assigned summer reading books:

a) The Kid in the Red Jacket, by Barbara Park

b) My Name is Brain Brian, by Jeanne Betancourt

c) There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, by Louis Sachar

d) Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure, by Dan Gutman

e) Jack Sparrow: The Coming Storm, by Rob Kidd

f) Who Was Anne Frank?, by Ann Abramson

g) In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Bette Bao Lord

h) Niagara Falls, or Does It? (Hank Zipzer #1), by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver

**NOVEMBER = Book Report: Biography

**JANUARY = Book Report: Mystery

**FEBRUARY = Book Report: Free Choice: Fiction or Non-Fiction

**I must approve the book before your child

begins reading it in order to make sure

it is grade level material**

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**A Mini-Research Project will be assigned

in October and December**

**OCTOBER = Mini-Research Report: Choose an Animal (research will begin in class)

**DECEMBER = Mini-Research Report: Choose a Sport (research will begin in class)

**We will begin this project in school**

**The children will research their chosen topic

using the encyclopedia in the CBS library

and using the internet in Dell Lab**

**Each child will be required to read a book as well -

either one from our school library or the public library**

**This one page report will include factual information

from all three sources -

encyclopedia, internet, and book**

**An informal bibliography (list of sources) will be

written on the second (or last) page of this report**

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