Mrs. Cohen's Home Page

2010-2011

REMINDERS,

TESTS,

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**WEEK OF 9/6/10**

**THIS IS "A" WEEK**

**UPDATED: 9/2/10**

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LIST FOR SEPTEMBER 7, 2010!

1. First Day of School - Tuesday, 9/7 -

**Welcome back to school!**

2. Emergency Forms - Due Wednesday, 9/8 -

**You will find this in the folder your child will bring home on Tuesday, 9/7**

**This folder is yours to keep - please do not send it back to school - there is much needed information in it**

**I have also included my parent letter introducing you to 5th grade and my class, as well as information

packets regarding study skill strategies and required formats for book reports and mini-research projects**

3.No School - Thursday, 9/9 + Friday, 9/10 -

**Rosh Hashanah**

4. Passport + Name Acrostic - Due by Monday, 9/13 -

**These projects will be started in class**

5. Book Orders - Due Tuesday, 9/14 - Checks only!

**Please make your check payable to: Scholastic/Arrow Book Club**

6. Back to School Night - Tuesday, 9/14 -

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

7. CBS / PTA Meeting - Wednesday, 9/15 -

**Time: 9:30 A.M.**

8. Math - Test Thursday, 9/16 - Text/Mid-Chapter 1 -

**Topic: "Use Place Value"**

**Tested Skills: Lessons 1 - 4**

9. Cover All Textbooks - by Friday, 9/17 -

**Please do not use any contact paper - the book covers have to be removed at the end of the year**

10. Reading - Test Friday, 9/17 -

**Story: "Miss Alaineous"

**Scroll down to view the Reading vocabulary word list**

11. Wear Blue and Gold - Friday, 9/17

12. Spelling - Test Monday, 9/20 -

**Story: "Miss Alaineous"**

**The Spelling word list will be posted Tuesday, 9/14**

13. Social Studies - Test Tuesday - 9/21 - Chapter 1 -

**Topic: "The First Americans"**

**A Review Packet will be given out Tuesday, 9/14**

14. English - Test Wednesday, 9/25 -

**Topic: "Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates"**

15. Board of Education Meeting - Tuesday, 9/28 -

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

16. Book Report - Due Thursday, 9/30 -

**Your child will need to write a book report on ANY ONE of the REQUIRED books

he/she read during the summer**

**Please refer to the hand-out for book report formats enclosed in the school folder your child

brought home the first day of school**

**I also have the book report formats on this web page - just keep scrolling until you see it - it is

at the very end of this page**

17. SEPTA Meeting - Thursday, 9/30 -

**Place: JFK / Cafeteria**

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

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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: "Miss Alaineous"**

**Reading Test: Friday, 9/17**

**SPELLING WORDS**

**Story: "Miss Alaineous "**

**Skill: **Short Vowels**

**Spelling Test: Monday, 9/20**

**The Spelling word list will be posted Tuesday, 9/14**

**Math: Vocabulary Words**

**Chapter 1 - "Use Place Value"**

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OUR DAILY SCHEDULE

**TUESDAY**

**WEDNESDAY**

**THURSDAY**

**FRIDAY**

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**INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS**

**Updated: 9/2/10**

**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**

**TUESDAY**

**WEDNESDAY**

**THURSDAY**

**FRIDAY**

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**GROUP / DAY OF WEEK / STUDENT**

**Updated: 9/2/10**

**Changes will be posted as they occur**

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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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