Important Announcements
~ Please join us in the morning for more information on Online Everyday Math.
"Everyday Mathematics Online" Parent Orientation
Tuesday, September 23 8:15 - 9am
For parents of students grades K - 5, learn more about what is available to you and your child online to support him or her in our math curriculum, and learn how to use it!
Presenters: Kohler Sartain, 5th Grade Teacher and Teddi Bair, Lower School Math Department Head
Where: Lower School MPR
~ Thursday is a G day. Don't forget to wear your chapel uniform.
~ I switched my carpool day so that I could have the math review tutorial on Monday. Therefore, there will be no tutorial on Thursday.
Math
Students have finished Unit 2 and we are ready to move onto Unit 3. We will be taking our math test on Tuesday and Wednesday. Once we have finished it, students will work in small groups to work through the Open Response that was assigned for Unit 2. We will spend time discussing word problem strategies as we move forward. In Unit 3 this week, we will learn more about data sets and explore angle measures using protractors and compasses. Study Links will be assigned as needed.
Social Studies
This week we are finishing up presenting our colonies projects. I will post them on the website once everyone has presented. I was very impressed with the students work on this project. Next week, students will learn about how each area of the colonies developed differently (which lays the foundation for an eventual growing divide among the colonies) and the outcome of the French and Indian war. Who comes out on top at the end? The English or the French? What was the result of this war for the “victor”?
Reading
We are starting our new reading unit this week. In this unit we will be focusing on character development in fiction novels. Every student and their reading partner will be selecting a book with a strong main character. We will be focusing on growing theories about these characters and strengthening our reading skills by embarking upon a complex analysis of our characters using envisionment, prediction, inference, and interpretation. All students may be reading a second independent book as we dive deeply into their character books.
Writing
The children will then begin a new unit in Writing focused on character analysis. They will be using the research they are doing in Reading to begin generating ideas focused on the characters they are studying independently in their own novels. From this information, they will be developing a thesis (or BIG IDEA) based on their character, and work over the next few weeks to identify supporting evidence in their texts to prove their thesis is true. We look forward to big thinking this unit!!
Homework
Writing: Read the debate about cursive in Storyworks and create a "flashdraft" essay.
Math: POW and study links assigned day-by-day
Reading Comp: "How Hawaii Was Created"
Spelling words for the week:
enough
eye
February
flood
floor
friend
from
front
goes
gone
gauge
guard
guess
guest
guide
guy
half
Quizlet Link: http://quizlet.com/_txbi1
~ Please join us in the morning for more information on Online Everyday Math.
"Everyday Mathematics Online" Parent Orientation
Tuesday, September 23 8:15 - 9am
For parents of students grades K - 5, learn more about what is available to you and your child online to support him or her in our math curriculum, and learn how to use it!
Presenters: Kohler Sartain, 5th Grade Teacher and Teddi Bair, Lower School Math Department Head
Where: Lower School MPR
~ Thursday is a G day. Don't forget to wear your chapel uniform.
~ I switched my carpool day so that I could have the math review tutorial on Monday. Therefore, there will be no tutorial on Thursday.
Math
Students have finished Unit 2 and we are ready to move onto Unit 3. We will be taking our math test on Tuesday and Wednesday. Once we have finished it, students will work in small groups to work through the Open Response that was assigned for Unit 2. We will spend time discussing word problem strategies as we move forward. In Unit 3 this week, we will learn more about data sets and explore angle measures using protractors and compasses. Study Links will be assigned as needed.
Social Studies
This week we are finishing up presenting our colonies projects. I will post them on the website once everyone has presented. I was very impressed with the students work on this project. Next week, students will learn about how each area of the colonies developed differently (which lays the foundation for an eventual growing divide among the colonies) and the outcome of the French and Indian war. Who comes out on top at the end? The English or the French? What was the result of this war for the “victor”?
Reading
We are starting our new reading unit this week. In this unit we will be focusing on character development in fiction novels. Every student and their reading partner will be selecting a book with a strong main character. We will be focusing on growing theories about these characters and strengthening our reading skills by embarking upon a complex analysis of our characters using envisionment, prediction, inference, and interpretation. All students may be reading a second independent book as we dive deeply into their character books.
Writing
The children will then begin a new unit in Writing focused on character analysis. They will be using the research they are doing in Reading to begin generating ideas focused on the characters they are studying independently in their own novels. From this information, they will be developing a thesis (or BIG IDEA) based on their character, and work over the next few weeks to identify supporting evidence in their texts to prove their thesis is true. We look forward to big thinking this unit!!
Homework
Writing: Read the debate about cursive in Storyworks and create a "flashdraft" essay.
Math: POW and study links assigned day-by-day
Reading Comp: "How Hawaii Was Created"
Spelling words for the week:
enough
eye
February
flood
floor
friend
from
front
goes
gone
gauge
guard
guess
guest
guide
guy
half
Quizlet Link: http://quizlet.com/_txbi1