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Welcome to Mr. Inglebritson's Fifth Grade Class! 

As one of the two fifth grade classes at Evergreen for the 2009/2010 school year, we are proud to present our class website. Please feel free to browse the links and play some interactive math and science games!

Below is a brief tour of our fall academic pathway:

Reading: Focus on comprehension strategies and story elements.

Writing: Creating essays with proper structure, details, and multiple drafts. Editing our own work and helping  peers edit their work.

Math:  Estimation,  multi-step problems, problem solving, multiplication practice, addition, and subtraction.

Science: Variables and how they affect scientific processes. Our second course of study will be landforms.

Social Studies:  Identifying expository text features, map study, and early North Americans.

Daily Schedule for 2009-2010:
*As with most schedules, this classroom schedule is a guideline that is subject to changes.

  9:00-9:20 9:20- 9:55 9:55-10:35 10:35- 11:20 11:20- 12:10 12:10- 12:30 12:30- 1:00 1:00- 1:10 1:10- 2:20 2:20- 2:35 2:35- 3:10 3:10- 3:25
Mon Problem Solving Math Music Math
Writing		 Writing
Spelling		 Lunch Recess Read Aloud Reading
Writing		 Recess Reading Room Social Studies
Tues Problem Solving Math

PE

 Math 
Writing		 Writing
Spelling		 Lunch Recess Read Aloud Reading
Writing		 Recess Reading Room Social Studies
 Weds  Late Start Late Start Problem Solving
Math		 10:40-
11:10
Music		 11:10-12:10
Writing		 Lunch Recess Read
Aloud		 Reading Recess Social Studies Social Studies
Thurs Science Science PE Math Writing Spelling Lunch Recess Read Aloud Reading
Writing		 Recess Reading
Room		 Social Studies
 Fri Problem 
Solving		 Math Math Science Writing
Spelling		 Writing
Spelling		 Lunch Recess Read Aloud LIbrary Recess Reading Room Weekly
Wrap-Up
                         


Description of Simulated Economy

 

 

Each Friday students receive wages for their week’s work. By the end of the school year most students are competent in figuring percentages, subtracting withholding taxes, writing and endorsing checks, and filling out savings slips. Students have opportunities to manage money, create supply and demand, and form partnerships and corporations. They determine their own capitalistic path by choosing what they want to do to fatten their bankrolls or supplement their weekly paychecks,

 

 

Fridays the class bank is open for business. Blank paychecks with attached pay stubs are distributed and students fill out hours worked, extra pay, total gross earnings, calculate withholding tax, and determine the total net pay. Net pay is rounded off and the paycheck is made out to the individual student, who must separate the check from the stub, endorse the check, stand in line at the bank, and either cash the check or make a deposit or a combination of both. Students may also make a rent payment, as per the lease agreement, at the beginning of the month.

 

A flea market on occasional Fridays occurs during the banking time. Students bring homemade crafts, old toys, hand drawn pictures, trading cards, used books, etc; they cannot spend real money to purchase items to bring to flea markets and must have a parent note granting permission to sell said items. Items should fit into a backpack and are not taken out on the bus or the play field during recess. Some students create game booths and some offer services. Participation is not mandatory.

 

Fort Knox for the simulated economy is an auction held at the end of the school year. Auction items are donated by local businesses, parents, other teachers, and also purchased by Mr. Inglebritson. Class currency may be used to purchase classroom supplies or missing copies of homework assignments.

 

Quite simply, the purpose of the simulated economy is to teach basic capitalistic principles.