Next week is Spring Break! Enjoy the time off (if you have it)! Please let me know if your child will be out at all this week; thank you!
I know we can all get a little antsy for a break, so we will spend some time tomorrow thinking about how we can help ourselves stay focused and organized this week before break.
As a reminder, 3rd quarter report cards will be available on the Home Access Center this Friday, starting at 4:00.
The kids have just about filled our marble jar again, so we will plan a celebration for this Friday (as long as we fill it!).
5H Math: We're continuing multiplying whole numbers by fractions the beginning of this week and modeling our process and solution. Several kids have figured out the "trick" of multiplying a fraction by a whole number, but without the understanding of what they're really doing it's doubtful they will remember this skill, so please encourage your child to draw a model to show their thinking or check their work, or have them explain to you what they're doing.
On Wednesday, we will have a short quiz on multiplying fractions by whole numbers. It will not include story problems, but students will be required to draw a model to demonstrate their thinking.
Later in the week, we'll get into multiplying fractions by fractions.
Language Arts:
We did not get to the "picture book mash up" last week, because our digestive system tech-projects needed a little more work. The tech-projects really turned out well, and the kids learned a lot about the digestive system and their chosen technology through the process. Kids either did a Power Point, Prezi, or Photo Story; ask your child if you can theirs, if you haven't already; they were pretty creative! Graded rubrics for these will come home tomorrow (Monday).
This week we'll start a new creative writing piece a "picture book mash-up". It will require kids to work together to "mash-up" the best components from 2 picture books to create a new story. Kids will choose a picture book from the LMC and think about how to best mash-up the story elements (characters, setting, and plot). Kids will also illustrate their picture book creation. We will work on this until spring break.
For reading/social studies this week we will continue to study the Constitution. We will be working to understand each article of the Constitution using our social studies books (annotated Constitution in the back) as well as some books I got from the library.
Kids took a short quiz about what we've learned so far in regards to the Constitution last week. I graded the quizzes over the weekend, and students will have the opportunity to retake the quiz on Tuesday if they choose.
Word Study:
Our next lesson focuses on consonants that work as silent letters; for example the "w" in the word "write". We will work with words that have the consonant teams of "wr", "rh", "gn", "kn", "gh", "mn", and "mb". Kids will brainstorm words that have these consonant teams and we will create our own list of words for the quiz. Hopefully your kids told you there is no quiz on Monday. We will plan on taking the quiz Friday.
Science:
Lots of quizzes this week...we're wrapping up the digestive unit, so we will take the unit quiz Wednesday. Kids got a study guide last Friday, and we will review this guide on Monday. We will also be finishing up talking about the 6 types of nutrients.
I know we can all get a little antsy for a break, so we will spend some time tomorrow thinking about how we can help ourselves stay focused and organized this week before break.
As a reminder, 3rd quarter report cards will be available on the Home Access Center this Friday, starting at 4:00.
The kids have just about filled our marble jar again, so we will plan a celebration for this Friday (as long as we fill it!).
5H Math: We're continuing multiplying whole numbers by fractions the beginning of this week and modeling our process and solution. Several kids have figured out the "trick" of multiplying a fraction by a whole number, but without the understanding of what they're really doing it's doubtful they will remember this skill, so please encourage your child to draw a model to show their thinking or check their work, or have them explain to you what they're doing.
On Wednesday, we will have a short quiz on multiplying fractions by whole numbers. It will not include story problems, but students will be required to draw a model to demonstrate their thinking.
Later in the week, we'll get into multiplying fractions by fractions.
Language Arts:
We did not get to the "picture book mash up" last week, because our digestive system tech-projects needed a little more work. The tech-projects really turned out well, and the kids learned a lot about the digestive system and their chosen technology through the process. Kids either did a Power Point, Prezi, or Photo Story; ask your child if you can theirs, if you haven't already; they were pretty creative! Graded rubrics for these will come home tomorrow (Monday).
This week we'll start a new creative writing piece a "picture book mash-up". It will require kids to work together to "mash-up" the best components from 2 picture books to create a new story. Kids will choose a picture book from the LMC and think about how to best mash-up the story elements (characters, setting, and plot). Kids will also illustrate their picture book creation. We will work on this until spring break.
For reading/social studies this week we will continue to study the Constitution. We will be working to understand each article of the Constitution using our social studies books (annotated Constitution in the back) as well as some books I got from the library.
Kids took a short quiz about what we've learned so far in regards to the Constitution last week. I graded the quizzes over the weekend, and students will have the opportunity to retake the quiz on Tuesday if they choose.
Word Study:
Our next lesson focuses on consonants that work as silent letters; for example the "w" in the word "write". We will work with words that have the consonant teams of "wr", "rh", "gn", "kn", "gh", "mn", and "mb". Kids will brainstorm words that have these consonant teams and we will create our own list of words for the quiz. Hopefully your kids told you there is no quiz on Monday. We will plan on taking the quiz Friday.
Science:
Lots of quizzes this week...we're wrapping up the digestive unit, so we will take the unit quiz Wednesday. Kids got a study guide last Friday, and we will review this guide on Monday. We will also be finishing up talking about the 6 types of nutrients.
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