November 17 - 21, 2008

Dear Parents,
Thanks so much for the canned foods for the Thanksgiving food drive!

Also, we appreciate all of the leftover Halloween candy that was sent in for our student store.

Finally, the 4-H club thanks you for sending in the school supplies for the high school recently damaged by fire.

Social Studies Fair:

Your research paper is due Wednesday. Please use your packet as a guide. The report must be double spaced.

Please include the following six parts:
Title page: Include title and date (date of fair) do not include your name
Table of Contents: include all of the parts of the report and the page in which they are located
Abstract: Must be less than 250 words double spaced /must be in third person (no use of I, you, me, we us). Summarize the content and purpose of the project. Describe the reference sources. Answer why the topic was chosen and what you expect to learn. Example: The topic was chosen because… The learning expectations are… Learning about _____ will be rewarding because…
Body: double spaced/third person. Write a summary of what was discovered during research/ Answer questions or describe the solution to the problem.
Conclusion: summarize the data/research and describe the general ideas discovered during your research.
Bibliography

Dates:
11/24 - 11/28 - Thanksgiving Break

Dear Students,
Math - We will continue Unit 3, Shapes and Angles. Wednesday we will have a quiz over plotting ordered pairs on the coordinate grid. Then we will begin an extensive study of triangles. Please continue to study your multiplication facts. Go to freerice.com and study your facts. You will need to change the subject to math.

Spelling - Unit 14: Dictation test on Wednesday; Multiple Choice test on Friday. Four Activities will be due Friday.

Language - We will continue a study of nouns - Unit 2. Be sure you review the rules for forming singular and plural possessive nouns.

Reading -We will begin reading Shiloh. You will have a comprehension/vocabulary quiz Friday. The comprehension will be on the chapters we get to by Thursday. Don't forget about A/R.

Science - Great job on your quizzes last week. This week we will begin a study of endangered species and human impact on ecosystems. Can you think of ways in which we impact our ecosystems in Louisiana?

Social Studies - This week we will learn more about the Vikings. We will also study ancient African trade routes that lead to exploration. Weekly Geography 51 is due Friday.

Textbook sites:

Reading Series: (All grade levels)
For students to access their account:
They must go to http://www.macmillanmh.com/ose
Submit the correct access code: This has to be done only once per computer:
Grade 5: CC1F017B01
This gives them access to their book.
To access the Leveled Reader Database: (all students)
http://leveledreaderdatabase.macmillanmh.com/lrdb/search.form
Username: lhmsstudent
Password: lhmsstudent1
This is the website for students to access the leveled readers
Once you get to the main screen:
Type in the name of the book
Press Enter on your keyboard
Then View Online
Start at Page 1
Press Audio (the arrow, not the box)

For Scott Foresman/Pearson Math and Social Studies
www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
Student code:
username: lhms5th
password: lhms5th
Please don't forget the students may practice their iLeap skills on http://www.louisianapass.org/ . Their passwords should be the same as last year's usernames/passwords. If they have forgotten, they can retrieve them or sign up again use "tiger" as the password.