Scott Finley
Job Description: Classroom Teacher
Welcome to my class room website, I hope you find it helpful.
Section One - Important Information
Section Two - Homework for the week
Section Three - Upcoming Events and Assignments
Section Four - A General Description of Homework and Expectations
Section Five - Completed Assignments
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Section One - Important Information:
***The first Trimester for the 2009 - 2010 school year closes on Friday, November 13th. I will input grades into the system by the 19th and report cards will go home on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving break.***
*** I wasn't even aware of this until yesterday. The district is not recognizing perfect attendance each trimester in the hope that students will stay home if they are sick. The idea is that we will minimize the spread of colds and flus through the school system.***
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!
Don't you look at me...Buddy.
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Student Info - Classroom Links
Possessive Nouns link
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/exploring_possessives/index.html
**** IS YOUR CHILD STRUGGLING WITH MATH FACTS?***** Here is a great website to print off multiplication cards or play math games:
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Section Two - Homework for the week of 11/23/09
Includes, but is not limited to the following:
Reading Log for this week: No reading log this week
Spelling Words - No spelling this week
Spelling Homework this week - No spelling homework
Math: Monday SL5.9, Tuesday SL5.10, Wednesday through Friday - No School
Writing: Due Tuesday November, 24th - Diary Entrees - There are 2 diary entry projects due over the next couple of weeks - The first is a personal journal. Today your student made a journal that includes a cover and five sheets of notebook paper. Each night from 11/16 throught 11/23 they are suppose to write approximately a 1/2 page diary entry describing (in detail) an event from the day. The cover needs to be designed and personalized. It can include pictures, drawings, etc. No pencil on the cover, but the journal pages can be written in pencil
Secondly, we will be working in-class on a diary entry describing the following: "As our colonists begin to sail across the Atlantic Ocean, life will be very tough. They will write a diary entry describing this horrible journey." The rough draft is due this Wednesday.
Social Studies: Continue playing Discovery in class.
Science: None at this time
Read Aloud - We are reading the novel Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Section Three - Upcoming Events and Projects:
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Section Four - Weekly Homework General Description and Expectations:
1) Each night your student should Read for 20 minutes and record it in their Reading Log. Your student should bring home a reading log every Friday or Monday and return it the following Friday morning. Reading logs require a neatly written summary each day. Reading Logs must be reviewed by a parent and initialed each day to get full credit. There are five styles of Reading Logs. I have created a link below, in case your student can't find this weeks reading log:
Reading log form #1-characaters
Reading log form #3-lots of characters
Reading log form #4- summarize
2) Each night your student should Independently write for 15 minutes in their writing journal. Each student received a composition book Monday, August, 25th. Students should write Monday through Thursday and return the writing journal on Friday. I will grade them over the weekend and return the following Monday. Each writing piece needs to be dated and initialed by a parent.
3) Math Study Links come home most evenings. Look above for the math schedule for this week. Show your Work
4) Additional work may come home at times. Work not completed in class will become homework. Some of the fifth grade research projects do require homework.
Never turn-in a final project in pencil
Always include your name and mailbox number.
Write Neatly and use correct grammar.
Projects are due on their due dates or points will be deducted.
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Section Five - Past Assignments:
Monday, September 15th The summary packet was due for Felix Navidad. Your child should have brought home a five-page packet to complete. I have created a link to copies of the pages and a list of my expectations (rubric).
Felix Murder Mystery Packet Links
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5
My expectation for Felix Navidad
Who Stole the Picasso: Before we started Felix Navidad, the class was given a homework assignment to solve who stole the Picasso painting. The students had to read the clues carefully, follow the directions, and write complete sentences on a seperate sheet of paper. There were many low scores, so I let them correct their papers. The corrections were do on Thursday, Sept 18th.
Social Studies: Explorer names will be given out on Friday, September 11th. Research begins the week of the 14th
Tuesday, September 15th The summary packet are due for Felix Navidad. Your child will bring home a five-page packet to complete on Friday the 11th. I have created a link to copies of the pages and a list of my expectations (rubric).
Felix Murder Mystery Packet Links
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5
My expectation for Felix Navidad
Explorer Research Project: Due October, 1st - Starting Monday, September 14th students will select an explorer, conduct research in the library for a week, and produce a report. Below is a link with a Research Paper example. Click on the link and see what my expectations are:
Sharon Creech Reading Response Questions -Over the last two weeks students have been reading a Sharon Creech novel. They had a list of 20 questions to answer as they read. These reading response answers are now due. They are to be typed or beautifully hand written (in ink).
Explorer Two - Column notes are due tomorrow. After two visits to the LMC, I'm realizing some students haven't been completing their 2-column notes in their spiral notebooks. Friday, each student will required to show me their notes.
Explorer Research Project: Due October 7th - THIS TUESDAY - Starting Tuesday, September 23rd students selected an explorer, conducted research in the library for a week, and now need to produce a report. Below is a link with a Research Paper example. Click on the link and see what my expectations are:
Sharon Creech - Reading Response Questions: Are due Monday - Typed.
Here is a link to the Tessellations project rubric and a web site:
Tessellations Website - What is a Tessellation - www.tessellations.org
The Autobiography/Memoirs Project: Look below for more details. Here are links that might help you write yours:
Memoir Parent Letter/Expectations
Mr. Finley's Memoir Indroduction
Mr. Finley's Chapter One - My Family
Mr. Finley's Young Life - Stingrays, Go Carts and Near Death Experiences - Chapter 2
Mr. Finley's family scrapbook Chapter 3
Relaxing with Music - My Joy Chapter 4
Chapter 5 - What My Future Holds
My Autobiography Project is due Monday, May 11th. I have save each section, so I can print it all out and turn it in on the 11th.
**Admendment Project Poster - Due Friday May, 15th - This will be done in class starting Monday. Pick an Admendment, read it, write it down, what does it mean - define it, Is it necessary today, what would our country be like without it.**
Tuesday, September 8th -Who Stole the Picasso: Before we started Felix Navidad, the class will be given a homework assignment to solve who stole the Picasso painting. The students have to read the clues carefully, follow the directions, and write complete sentences on a seperate sheet of paper. Due Tuesday, September 8th
Wednesday, September 9th - There's Been a Murder!!!! You need to use science to solve it. We will spend two days examining a crime scene, we will look at the suspects statements and alibis, then on Friday we will go from classroom to classroom conducting experiments.
Personal Timeline - Penny Project: On Monday, September 19th your student was assigned a project to be done at home. Students create a personal time line showing importants dates in their lives. The rubric came home on the 19th. The goal of this project is to give students experience creating timelines. Their explorer report will include a timeline. It is due on September 21st.
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