I can't believe it's November already! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend, and kids enjoyed Trick or Treating if they went out! Also, I hope you were able to access student report cards on HAC this weekend. I look forward to seeing you all soon at conferences!
This week:
Tuesday: no school for students- Parent/Teacher Conferences 8:00-3:00
Book Fair begins Tuesday!
Thursday: Parent/Teacher Conferences 4:30-8:00 (regular school day)
Hopefully, kids are collecting their Boosterthon pledges! Thank you again parents for helping your kids with this. Wednesday is our first "count" day to see how we're doing with collecting pledges. Please encourage your child to get this done sooner than later :).
5H Math:
Students will get their NBT2 quizzes back on Monday (multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 including exponents). Then we are finally beginning unit 3 which focuses on division. This week we will review the strategies kids have learned to divide whole numbers before we get into the standard algorithm of division (long division). The purpose of reviewing the other methods is to help students understand what division is and this will help them understand why long division works. We will mostly work this week with single digit divisors. Next week we'll move into double-digit divisors.
Language Arts/Social Studies:
If your child has not shown you their "Where I'm From" presentation, make them show you! The kids did such a great job presenting their poems this past week; I was very proud! You will be getting the written portions of the performance task home soon, but their presentations are saved on their Google accounts.
We also finished Becoming Naomi Leon last week, and celebrated by carving soap just like Naomi does- it's harder than it sounds! We are wrapping up the first unit on "Identity" and will be moving into our next unit "Courage" later this week. We will begin this by trying to define what courage is. Courage will be an ongoing theme that will weave throughout the fiction and nonfiction texts we read.
Kids will spend a couple days this week learning about the Aztec and Cortes in order to help them gather information for their narrative writing pieces. As I said last week, the kids are going to write a narrative (story) from the Aztec perspective similar to a book we read earlier this year called "Encounter". After we gather factual information to include in our stories we will make a plan for the plot of our stories. I hope we will begin rough drafts this week.
We are also wrapping up our Exploration Social Studies unit this week. Kids will do a short research project on one of the tools that helped explorers in the late 1400s/early 1500s. We are working on taking notes and summarizing these notes in order to write a short paper; many of the kids want to take information right from the source to write their paper, which I'm sure you know leads to just copying information without really understanding it. We will also be learning how to properly cite a source.
We will have a Social Studies Quiz Monday 11/10. I will post study topics in the next couple days.
Citizenship:
This week we'll be discussing friendship groups (what to do when you or someone is being left out) and gossip (what it is and strategies when you're involved in gossip).
This week:
Tuesday: no school for students- Parent/Teacher Conferences 8:00-3:00
Book Fair begins Tuesday!
Thursday: Parent/Teacher Conferences 4:30-8:00 (regular school day)
Hopefully, kids are collecting their Boosterthon pledges! Thank you again parents for helping your kids with this. Wednesday is our first "count" day to see how we're doing with collecting pledges. Please encourage your child to get this done sooner than later :).
5H Math:
Students will get their NBT2 quizzes back on Monday (multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 including exponents). Then we are finally beginning unit 3 which focuses on division. This week we will review the strategies kids have learned to divide whole numbers before we get into the standard algorithm of division (long division). The purpose of reviewing the other methods is to help students understand what division is and this will help them understand why long division works. We will mostly work this week with single digit divisors. Next week we'll move into double-digit divisors.
Language Arts/Social Studies:
If your child has not shown you their "Where I'm From" presentation, make them show you! The kids did such a great job presenting their poems this past week; I was very proud! You will be getting the written portions of the performance task home soon, but their presentations are saved on their Google accounts.
We also finished Becoming Naomi Leon last week, and celebrated by carving soap just like Naomi does- it's harder than it sounds! We are wrapping up the first unit on "Identity" and will be moving into our next unit "Courage" later this week. We will begin this by trying to define what courage is. Courage will be an ongoing theme that will weave throughout the fiction and nonfiction texts we read.
Kids will spend a couple days this week learning about the Aztec and Cortes in order to help them gather information for their narrative writing pieces. As I said last week, the kids are going to write a narrative (story) from the Aztec perspective similar to a book we read earlier this year called "Encounter". After we gather factual information to include in our stories we will make a plan for the plot of our stories. I hope we will begin rough drafts this week.
We are also wrapping up our Exploration Social Studies unit this week. Kids will do a short research project on one of the tools that helped explorers in the late 1400s/early 1500s. We are working on taking notes and summarizing these notes in order to write a short paper; many of the kids want to take information right from the source to write their paper, which I'm sure you know leads to just copying information without really understanding it. We will also be learning how to properly cite a source.
We will have a Social Studies Quiz Monday 11/10. I will post study topics in the next couple days.
Citizenship:
This week we'll be discussing friendship groups (what to do when you or someone is being left out) and gossip (what it is and strategies when you're involved in gossip).
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