All About Southwestern Fifth Grade:

ASSIGNMENTS/GRADING

• Homework is an important part of your child’s learning experience.

• Fifth graders will have nightly homework.

• Assignment notebooks are required and will be filled out each day.

• If your child has an assignment that he/she fails to turn in, a Late Slip will be sent home to be signed by a parent. The completed assignment and the signed Late Slip must be returned to school the next day. If your child does not return the late assignment and the signed Late Slip, he/she will receive no credit for the assignment.1. For the first quarter, grades on late assignments are reduced by 20%.2. Beginning with the sixth late assignment in a nine week period, NO CREDIT will be given.

• Grading Scale: A = 90% – 100%; B = 80% – 89%; C = 70 – 79% D = 60 – 69%; F = 59% and below.

• Grades are weighted. 75% – Assignments; 25% – Tests

• At the teacher’s discretion, an assignment may be redone. The original grade and the redone grade will be averaged.

FRIDAY FOLDERS

• Graded work will be sent home in the Friday Folder.

• Please sign and comment on the Weekly Evaluation.

• Signed Friday Folders are due back by Tuesday the following week.

• This is an assignment.

BOOK COVERS

• Textbook covers are required.

DAILY READING ASSIGNMENT

• Your child is expected to read 20 minutes daily during the week, or 100 minutes total per week at home.

•  A Reading Record Calendar will be sent home at the beginning of each month to record the daily minutes and the monthly total.

• At the end of the month the Reading Record Calendar should be signed by a parent and the student, and then returned to school.

• This is an assignment.