Track and Field Day is Monday! I hope the weather works out! Please make sure kids have comfortable clothing and a water bottle for the event.
Several graded papers will come home Monday, and a couple came home last week as well.
For those kids interested, Service Club begins this Wednesday after school and ends at 3:45.
This week:
5H Math:
The end of last week, kids worked on deepening their understanding of multiplication. Kid worked in small groups to try and explain why the traditional method of multiplication works. The groups started to present to the class on Friday and we will continue this on Monday. Most multiplication quizzes came home last week, but I have a few more to hand back tomorrow. Kids' math fact errors are to blame for a lot of missed problems! Any games you can play at home to work on math facts would be helpful (especially the 7s, 8s, and 9s facts).
Next, we will be working on adding and subtracting decimals. I had asked students to bring a restaurant menu by Monday, but we probably will not need them until Tuesday. We will practice adding and subtracting decimals using the menus. Later in the week, we may get to multiplication of decimals.
Language Arts:
With our anchor text this week, "Becoming Naomi Leon", we will learn about foreshadowing as well as pay attention to the author's use of similes and metaphors. We will also practice summarizing chapters using the most important information from the chapter.
Kids will prepare for writing their own "Where I'm From" poem (which is part of their Quarter 1 Performance Task I spoke about at Curriculum Night) this week by analyzing what types of information the author used in the original poem. Then kids will list similar information about their own lives to use when they write their poems.
This week we will also look at a nonfiction article together to practice synthesizing.
Word Study:
Kids will have a homophone quiz on Tuesday; we talked about this Friday and the kids have the words they need to study in their word study notebooks.
We are finishing up Open Syllables and so we will probably have a second short quiz on Friday, with words that have open syllables. Kids already have example words in their notebooks, but will have more added on Wednesday.
Social Studies:
We are beginning our Exploration unit this week. We will begin by discussing what we know about the exploration of North America and Christopher Columbus before reading "Encounter" a literary informational book that will show a different side to exploration. Students will see exploration from the natives' perspective.
Several graded papers will come home Monday, and a couple came home last week as well.
For those kids interested, Service Club begins this Wednesday after school and ends at 3:45.
This week:
5H Math:
The end of last week, kids worked on deepening their understanding of multiplication. Kid worked in small groups to try and explain why the traditional method of multiplication works. The groups started to present to the class on Friday and we will continue this on Monday. Most multiplication quizzes came home last week, but I have a few more to hand back tomorrow. Kids' math fact errors are to blame for a lot of missed problems! Any games you can play at home to work on math facts would be helpful (especially the 7s, 8s, and 9s facts).
Next, we will be working on adding and subtracting decimals. I had asked students to bring a restaurant menu by Monday, but we probably will not need them until Tuesday. We will practice adding and subtracting decimals using the menus. Later in the week, we may get to multiplication of decimals.
Language Arts:
With our anchor text this week, "Becoming Naomi Leon", we will learn about foreshadowing as well as pay attention to the author's use of similes and metaphors. We will also practice summarizing chapters using the most important information from the chapter.
Kids will prepare for writing their own "Where I'm From" poem (which is part of their Quarter 1 Performance Task I spoke about at Curriculum Night) this week by analyzing what types of information the author used in the original poem. Then kids will list similar information about their own lives to use when they write their poems.
This week we will also look at a nonfiction article together to practice synthesizing.
Word Study:
Kids will have a homophone quiz on Tuesday; we talked about this Friday and the kids have the words they need to study in their word study notebooks.
We are finishing up Open Syllables and so we will probably have a second short quiz on Friday, with words that have open syllables. Kids already have example words in their notebooks, but will have more added on Wednesday.
Social Studies:
We are beginning our Exploration unit this week. We will begin by discussing what we know about the exploration of North America and Christopher Columbus before reading "Encounter" a literary informational book that will show a different side to exploration. Students will see exploration from the natives' perspective.
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