5H Math: This week we will have several explorations which focus on understanding which shapes share attributes/properties. We will play a game that requires kids to find common attributes among different shapes. We will also learn about the different types of triangles: acute, obtuse, right, equiangular, scalene, isosceles, equilateral. Triangles can also have more than one name; for example, a triangle can be an obtuse scalene triangle. Students will be asked to compare, contrast and analyze the properties or attributes of these two-dimensional figures.
The kids have two sheets of geometry vocabulary. It would be a good idea to review some of these terms with your children. We have not finished labeling all of the terms yet, but will do so as they come up. Today we talked about some types of angles: acute, obtuse and right.
Kids will also get their unit 3 tests back this week. I will let you know when you can expect to see them coming home!
Language Arts:
This week we will begin another read aloud "The Liberation of Gabriel King," which is about a boy in the fourth grade who is terrified of moving on to fifth grade as well as almost everything else. The main character and his best friend show different kinds of courage and in different situations throughout the book. The book is set during the 1970s in a southern town that has members of the Ku Klux Klan. We will study vocabulary throughout the book as well as practice responding to text. The book will be the source of several reading and writing lessons.
We have begun a word wall in our room, of words your kids have discovered in their own books. I'm encouraging kids to notice new words and determine their meanings through a number of strategies, then post them on the wall. We talk about the words we've found and I will encourage kids to use these words in their own writing.
Today, we read a couple opinion/argument writing pieces to determine what should be included in an opinion piece. Students found that you should state your opinion in a clear way in the first paragraph of your piece, state several reasons your opinion is the "correct" opinion (using facts), state the opposing point of view and discredit it, restate your opinion in your conclusion, as well as use persuasive/strong word choice. We will begin writing our own opinion pieces soon. Kids will use a Time for Kids article for our first piece and then move on to other topics (eithe current event, social studies topic or something from our read aloud).
Kids have also started their second Writer's Workshop pieces. Most kids are in the drafting stage. We are working on improving our skills from our first writer's workshop piece as well as our memoirs.
For grammar, we will learn how to properly make nouns plural as well as possessive.
Word Study: The C-le word study quiz is this Wednesday. From talking with everyone at conferences, I am not sure how many of the kids are sharing their word study notebooks with you. Before a quiz, I always tell the kids to bring their notebooks home to share with you. You can help them study, by reading a word from the current section of their notebook (C-le) and have them write and mark it on a separate piece of paper. Words they write in their notebooks were either done together as a class or done independently and corrected in class...so they should be correct in order to study from. Toward the end of the week, we will practice a few more homophones: meddle/medal, bridle/bridal, peddle/pedal, and muscle/mussel.
Social Studies: This week we are learning about the 13 colonies. Students will need to be able to label a map showing the names of each of the colonies as well as the 3 different regions: New Engand , Middle and Southern Colonies. We will have this map quiz next Monday (11-25). We will be reading from our social studies texts, watching videos as well as reading other nonfiction texts to learn about the colonies. Students will focus on the geography and natural resources as well as how these factors affected the economy of each region. Students will also learn about the people that settled in each region. The students made their own organizers today to take notes from the various sources.
The kids have two sheets of geometry vocabulary. It would be a good idea to review some of these terms with your children. We have not finished labeling all of the terms yet, but will do so as they come up. Today we talked about some types of angles: acute, obtuse and right.
Kids will also get their unit 3 tests back this week. I will let you know when you can expect to see them coming home!
Language Arts:
This week we will begin another read aloud "The Liberation of Gabriel King," which is about a boy in the fourth grade who is terrified of moving on to fifth grade as well as almost everything else. The main character and his best friend show different kinds of courage and in different situations throughout the book. The book is set during the 1970s in a southern town that has members of the Ku Klux Klan. We will study vocabulary throughout the book as well as practice responding to text. The book will be the source of several reading and writing lessons.
We have begun a word wall in our room, of words your kids have discovered in their own books. I'm encouraging kids to notice new words and determine their meanings through a number of strategies, then post them on the wall. We talk about the words we've found and I will encourage kids to use these words in their own writing.
Today, we read a couple opinion/argument writing pieces to determine what should be included in an opinion piece. Students found that you should state your opinion in a clear way in the first paragraph of your piece, state several reasons your opinion is the "correct" opinion (using facts), state the opposing point of view and discredit it, restate your opinion in your conclusion, as well as use persuasive/strong word choice. We will begin writing our own opinion pieces soon. Kids will use a Time for Kids article for our first piece and then move on to other topics (eithe current event, social studies topic or something from our read aloud).
Kids have also started their second Writer's Workshop pieces. Most kids are in the drafting stage. We are working on improving our skills from our first writer's workshop piece as well as our memoirs.
For grammar, we will learn how to properly make nouns plural as well as possessive.
Word Study: The C-le word study quiz is this Wednesday. From talking with everyone at conferences, I am not sure how many of the kids are sharing their word study notebooks with you. Before a quiz, I always tell the kids to bring their notebooks home to share with you. You can help them study, by reading a word from the current section of their notebook (C-le) and have them write and mark it on a separate piece of paper. Words they write in their notebooks were either done together as a class or done independently and corrected in class...so they should be correct in order to study from. Toward the end of the week, we will practice a few more homophones: meddle/medal, bridle/bridal, peddle/pedal, and muscle/mussel.
Social Studies: This week we are learning about the 13 colonies. Students will need to be able to label a map showing the names of each of the colonies as well as the 3 different regions: New Engand , Middle and Southern Colonies. We will have this map quiz next Monday (11-25). We will be reading from our social studies texts, watching videos as well as reading other nonfiction texts to learn about the colonies. Students will focus on the geography and natural resources as well as how these factors affected the economy of each region. Students will also learn about the people that settled in each region. The students made their own organizers today to take notes from the various sources.
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