It has been wonderful seeing you all for conferences so far. I enjoy and value the time I get to speak with each of you. The last round of conferences is Monday 4:40-8:00- see many of you tomorrow!
Tuesday- No school- Veterans' Day
Wednesday- Service Club (3:35-4:45) and Math Olympiad
5H Math:
The kids are doing pretty well with division of whole numbers when dividing by a 1 digit divisor. They had an "exit slip" on Friday. I give the students a few problems, and use these to guide my instruction. I'm going to hand these back to kids tomorrow so they can see how they did and will tell the kids to bring them home and show you, so you can see how your child is progressing. These are not graded.
Our goals for the week include: solving division word problems as well as understanding what to do with the remainder (round up? write it as a fraction? leave it off the final answer?) and dividing by a double digit divisor. I continue to encourage kids to make an estimate before solving, so they can check their answer for reasonableness. Also, they can use multiplication to check their answer. We will have a division quiz on Friday. This will include computation and word problems, dividing by a single and double digit divisor.
Remember, there are links in the math tab that are helpful under "Unit 3".
Language Arts:
This week kids will write their rough drafts of their narratives. As a reminder, they are writing historical narratives about Cortes conquering the Aztec people. We've done a lot of research to prepare for this. For their narratives, the focus is to have a clear event sequence including descriptive details. Of course, we will also include facets of our research where able.
We begin our next anchor text, "The Liberation of Gabriel King". This book is set in Georgia in the 1970s. It is about two kids who are best friends and how they help each other overcome their fears. You can read more about the text here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberation-Gabriel-King-Going/dp/0142407666
I have a plan for students to begin reading a novel with a partner this week. Each partnership will read a novel that is an appropriate challenge for the students (each student will have a copy). The purpose is to practice reading strategies as well as promote discussion of the text. I hope for students to be able to use these same skills when they are reading independently. I am hoping this will get started this week, but I keep finding I plan too much!
Word Study:
This week we study the Greek and Latin roots: "press" and "script/scribe". We will learn their meanings and study words that contain these roots. Kids will have a quiz on these topics the week of 11/17.
Social Studies:
Exploration Assessment Monday. Kids should make sure they bring all of their study materials (social studies book, notebook and reading sheet) back to school.
Science:
We begin science again this week with our Magnet and Electricity unit. This unit starts by learning about atoms and their structure. There is a lot of vocabulary that goes along with this (atom, nucleus, neutron, proton, electron, electron shell, element, compound). We will be learning about these terms early in the week, so you may want to review these with your child. We will also learn about the Periodic Table and how elements are organized.
Citizenship:
We continue last week's topics of gossip and inappropriate remarks...what these are and what to do when either one occurs.
DLT:
I will begin working with many of the students on their multiplication facts this week during DLT. This will be ongoing for a few weeks.
Tuesday- No school- Veterans' Day
Wednesday- Service Club (3:35-4:45) and Math Olympiad
5H Math:
The kids are doing pretty well with division of whole numbers when dividing by a 1 digit divisor. They had an "exit slip" on Friday. I give the students a few problems, and use these to guide my instruction. I'm going to hand these back to kids tomorrow so they can see how they did and will tell the kids to bring them home and show you, so you can see how your child is progressing. These are not graded.
Our goals for the week include: solving division word problems as well as understanding what to do with the remainder (round up? write it as a fraction? leave it off the final answer?) and dividing by a double digit divisor. I continue to encourage kids to make an estimate before solving, so they can check their answer for reasonableness. Also, they can use multiplication to check their answer. We will have a division quiz on Friday. This will include computation and word problems, dividing by a single and double digit divisor.
Remember, there are links in the math tab that are helpful under "Unit 3".
Language Arts:
This week kids will write their rough drafts of their narratives. As a reminder, they are writing historical narratives about Cortes conquering the Aztec people. We've done a lot of research to prepare for this. For their narratives, the focus is to have a clear event sequence including descriptive details. Of course, we will also include facets of our research where able.
We begin our next anchor text, "The Liberation of Gabriel King". This book is set in Georgia in the 1970s. It is about two kids who are best friends and how they help each other overcome their fears. You can read more about the text here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberation-Gabriel-King-Going/dp/0142407666
I have a plan for students to begin reading a novel with a partner this week. Each partnership will read a novel that is an appropriate challenge for the students (each student will have a copy). The purpose is to practice reading strategies as well as promote discussion of the text. I hope for students to be able to use these same skills when they are reading independently. I am hoping this will get started this week, but I keep finding I plan too much!
Word Study:
This week we study the Greek and Latin roots: "press" and "script/scribe". We will learn their meanings and study words that contain these roots. Kids will have a quiz on these topics the week of 11/17.
Social Studies:
Exploration Assessment Monday. Kids should make sure they bring all of their study materials (social studies book, notebook and reading sheet) back to school.
Science:
We begin science again this week with our Magnet and Electricity unit. This unit starts by learning about atoms and their structure. There is a lot of vocabulary that goes along with this (atom, nucleus, neutron, proton, electron, electron shell, element, compound). We will be learning about these terms early in the week, so you may want to review these with your child. We will also learn about the Periodic Table and how elements are organized.
Citizenship:
We continue last week's topics of gossip and inappropriate remarks...what these are and what to do when either one occurs.
DLT:
I will begin working with many of the students on their multiplication facts this week during DLT. This will be ongoing for a few weeks.
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