I hope everyone has had a good weekend! I have updated the "Upcoming Events" list along the left side of the blog for your reference. I look forward to seeing you all in the next two weeks at conferences! In the meantime, please let me know if you have any questions.
This week:
5H Math: We will spend Monday going a bit deeper in our understanding of multiplying decimals by using a different method to multiply decimal numbers. Students will use an area model to multiply decimals. This will help students understand why multiplying two decimals will result in a product smaller than the two multipliers/factors. On Tuesday, we will review the skills we've learned about during this unit. Wednesday, kids will take the unit 3 test.
Because of meetings this week, I can only offer a study session during lunch and/or recess on Tuesday. I will continue to pull kids individually or in small groups on Monday and Tuesday for support as needed.
As a reminder, please have your child go on to Xtramath at least 3 times per week.
Language Arts:
During the first quarter, the language arts theme was Identity. This second quarter, our theme is Courage. These themes help us to tie our reading, writing, even social studies and science together. The focus isn't necessarily to learn about courage (though we will to some degree), but to work on language arts skills with the common idea of courage to tie our lessons together. For example, this week we will read a picture book entitled "Courage" and students will be asked to explain the theme of the book drawing from details in the text.
Another skill we will work on this week, is making meaning about a topic by gathering information from multiple sources. We will use our Time for Kids magazine as well as some nonfiction books to gather information about Bats. We will use this skill during our social studies reading as well, as we learn about settlers coming to North America.
Students have finished their rough drafts of their memoirs and many have started or have finished typing. I'm having kids hold off on printing until we can go through a few writing mini-lessons. When meeting with the kids I noticed a few common areas students need some support: not having run-on or incomplete sentences, knowing when to use commas, knowing when to start a new paragraph as well as using adequate description in their writing. We will work on all of these topics this week, but of course we won't be perfect at these skills after this week. We'll continue to work on them in the weeks to come. After revising/editing for these common errors, students will print their memoirs Thursday. Some children may spend some time typing at home this week; the typing needs to be finished before school on Thursday. We may edit a bit during the day, but kids should not have parts of their writing left to type.
Word Study: I had mentioned that we would start the syllable pattern -Cle last week, but we will be focusing on the different sounds the letter "c" and the letter "g" make instead (-Cle will be next). Students will learn the letter "c" sounds like /s/when followed by e, i, or y; and the letter "g" sounds like /j/ when followed by e, i, or y. No quiz this week.
Social Studies:
This week we will continue learning why settlers came to North America, what their journey was like as well as what life was like setting up a colony. I am encouraging students to inquire and think of their questions about this topic, and some students will be able to have some time to research their personal inquiries.
This week:
5H Math: We will spend Monday going a bit deeper in our understanding of multiplying decimals by using a different method to multiply decimal numbers. Students will use an area model to multiply decimals. This will help students understand why multiplying two decimals will result in a product smaller than the two multipliers/factors. On Tuesday, we will review the skills we've learned about during this unit. Wednesday, kids will take the unit 3 test.
Because of meetings this week, I can only offer a study session during lunch and/or recess on Tuesday. I will continue to pull kids individually or in small groups on Monday and Tuesday for support as needed.
As a reminder, please have your child go on to Xtramath at least 3 times per week.
Language Arts:
During the first quarter, the language arts theme was Identity. This second quarter, our theme is Courage. These themes help us to tie our reading, writing, even social studies and science together. The focus isn't necessarily to learn about courage (though we will to some degree), but to work on language arts skills with the common idea of courage to tie our lessons together. For example, this week we will read a picture book entitled "Courage" and students will be asked to explain the theme of the book drawing from details in the text.
Another skill we will work on this week, is making meaning about a topic by gathering information from multiple sources. We will use our Time for Kids magazine as well as some nonfiction books to gather information about Bats. We will use this skill during our social studies reading as well, as we learn about settlers coming to North America.
Students have finished their rough drafts of their memoirs and many have started or have finished typing. I'm having kids hold off on printing until we can go through a few writing mini-lessons. When meeting with the kids I noticed a few common areas students need some support: not having run-on or incomplete sentences, knowing when to use commas, knowing when to start a new paragraph as well as using adequate description in their writing. We will work on all of these topics this week, but of course we won't be perfect at these skills after this week. We'll continue to work on them in the weeks to come. After revising/editing for these common errors, students will print their memoirs Thursday. Some children may spend some time typing at home this week; the typing needs to be finished before school on Thursday. We may edit a bit during the day, but kids should not have parts of their writing left to type.
Word Study: I had mentioned that we would start the syllable pattern -Cle last week, but we will be focusing on the different sounds the letter "c" and the letter "g" make instead (-Cle will be next). Students will learn the letter "c" sounds like /s/when followed by e, i, or y; and the letter "g" sounds like /j/ when followed by e, i, or y. No quiz this week.
Social Studies:
This week we will continue learning why settlers came to North America, what their journey was like as well as what life was like setting up a colony. I am encouraging students to inquire and think of their questions about this topic, and some students will be able to have some time to research their personal inquiries.
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