Happy Halloween Week! Lots of fun things happening this week...
Wednesday- Boosterthon Fun Run (during school 10:30-11:30)- come and support the kids if you can!
Friday- Halloween Parade 2:00, then classroom parties 2:30
Friday- report cards become active on the HAC at 4 PM
For those kids involved in Service Club, we have a meeting this Wednesday after school until 4:45.
5H Math:
We continue with NBT2- understanding exponents and how to use them to show the powers of 10. Then kids will practice multiplying and dividing numbers by powers of 10 that are written as exponents (14 x 10^2). This will take the first couple days of the week, and then we will move into unit 3 (standards below). We will begin with division.
Unit 3 Standards
Language Arts/Social Studies:
We will finish our anchor text, "Becoming Naomi Leon" this week. We respond to the text each day by answering questions about the text, writing a summary, or studying vocabulary. After finishing the text, we will think back about the journey Naomi has gone on to help us make conclusions about why the text is entitled "Becoming Naomi Leon".
The kids' "Where I'm From" poems are just wonderful. I hope you have seen your child's; I think they've done a great job! The kids are presenting their poems on Tuesday and Wednesday this week- they already know which day they will be presenting on. They should make sure they are practicing at home before their presentation to make sure they can fluently read their poem. Later in the week, we will write a "Where I'm From" poem from Naomi's perspective using what we've learned about her throughout the book.
This week we will learn about the proper usages of commas. We'll do this by looking in the kids' own novels, and trying to determine the "rules" for commas.
Soon, kids will be writing a narrative (a story). We will begin working towards this, this week. Kids will write a narrative from the point of view of an Aztec person when Cortes and the Spanish came to Tenochtitlan. We are preparing this week by reading about the Aztecs and Cortes through our social studies books and through primary sources and other text/online sources. Kids will model their narrative after the book "Encounter" that we read a couple weeks ago. This book described what it may have been like when Columbus and his crew landed in the Bahamas where the Taino lived. This writing will carry over into next week as well.
Wednesday- Boosterthon Fun Run (during school 10:30-11:30)- come and support the kids if you can!
Friday- Halloween Parade 2:00, then classroom parties 2:30
Friday- report cards become active on the HAC at 4 PM
For those kids involved in Service Club, we have a meeting this Wednesday after school until 4:45.
5H Math:
We continue with NBT2- understanding exponents and how to use them to show the powers of 10. Then kids will practice multiplying and dividing numbers by powers of 10 that are written as exponents (14 x 10^2). This will take the first couple days of the week, and then we will move into unit 3 (standards below). We will begin with division.
Unit 3 Standards
- 5.NBT.A.4. Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place. (REVIEW)
- 5.NBT.B.6. Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models. (NEW)
- 5.NBT.B.7. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. (dividing decimals- NEW)
- 5.NF.B.3. Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator (a/b = a ÷ b). Solve word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions or mixed numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. (NEW)
Language Arts/Social Studies:
We will finish our anchor text, "Becoming Naomi Leon" this week. We respond to the text each day by answering questions about the text, writing a summary, or studying vocabulary. After finishing the text, we will think back about the journey Naomi has gone on to help us make conclusions about why the text is entitled "Becoming Naomi Leon".
The kids' "Where I'm From" poems are just wonderful. I hope you have seen your child's; I think they've done a great job! The kids are presenting their poems on Tuesday and Wednesday this week- they already know which day they will be presenting on. They should make sure they are practicing at home before their presentation to make sure they can fluently read their poem. Later in the week, we will write a "Where I'm From" poem from Naomi's perspective using what we've learned about her throughout the book.
This week we will learn about the proper usages of commas. We'll do this by looking in the kids' own novels, and trying to determine the "rules" for commas.
Soon, kids will be writing a narrative (a story). We will begin working towards this, this week. Kids will write a narrative from the point of view of an Aztec person when Cortes and the Spanish came to Tenochtitlan. We are preparing this week by reading about the Aztecs and Cortes through our social studies books and through primary sources and other text/online sources. Kids will model their narrative after the book "Encounter" that we read a couple weeks ago. This book described what it may have been like when Columbus and his crew landed in the Bahamas where the Taino lived. This writing will carry over into next week as well.
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