WEEK OF NOVEMBER 4-8

THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS THAT VOLUNTEERED THEIR TIME TO MAKE THE HALLOWEEN PARTY A HUGE SUCCESS!  THE GAMES, SNACKS AND PREPARATIONS WERE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!

  A Look at Next Week:

Spelling- Lesson 10   -0 or -1 will be in Challenge group

               Monday - Pretest   

               Thursday- Spelling Homework Due

              ** Thursday - Spelling test**

Social Studies-   Chapter 5 - "The Struggle to Found Colonies"

Lesson 1 - 1607 Jamestown

Hard Times in Virginia, The Spanish Armada, John Smith, Self-Government in Virginia. We will continue with this lesson next week. 

Lesson 2 - European Colonies

The French and Dutch Settlement

Lesson 3 - The First Colonies

The Pilgrims, Mayflower, A Thanksgiving Celebration, The Puritans Arrive, and The Puritans Way of Life

Reading-  Non-Fiction Text Organization. We will: Identify thin and thick questions, compare and contrast the overall structure of information in texts (text structure, text features, graphic organizers), homonyms and multi- meaning words. Our theme for this unit is "Natures Fury". We will continue using a variety of Non-Fiction texts to reinforce these skills. 

Reading Projects: The students are to read a REALISTIC FICTION book.

 They will be making a memory bag to go along with their story and give a small presentation at the end. The final due date for the project is November, 7. 

Language Arts-  We will Continue with Chapter 2. We will learn about :Common and Proper Nouns, Writing with Nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns,  Singular Possessive Nouns, and Plural Possessive Nouns. CHAPTER TEST IS ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7.

Science-    Chapter 6 - Ecosystems and Change.  

Lesson 1-"How Do Organisms Compete and Survive in an Ecosystem?" In this lesson we will learn about interactions in nature, symbiosis, predator-prey relationships.

Lesson 2 "How Do Ecosystems Change Over Time"

Primary Succession, Secondary Succession, and Extinction

Math-    Chapter 3 - Divide by a One-Digit Divisor

L 1- Relate Division to Multiplication- Using related multiplication facts to solve division problems and related division facts to solve multiplication problems.
L 2- Division Models- Use models to represent and solve division problems.

L 3- 2 Digit Dividends- Division of whole numbers involving a repeated process of dividing, multiplying and subtracting (both with and without remainders)  

L 4- Division Patterns- Using basic multiplication facts and patterns to divide multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 mentally.
L 5- Estimate Quotients- Using compatible numbers to divide mentally to estimate quotients. 

L 6- Division Models with Greater Numbers- Using models to find quotients of 3-digit dividends and 1-digit dividends.
L 7- Distributive Property and Partial Quotients
L 8-  Divide Three and Four-Digit Dividends
L 9- Place The First Digit

 We will also work on our quickness and fluency on our division facts! 

IMPORTANT DATES

                                                   

                                                   11-3 *Change Your Clocks *get and extra hour of sleep

                                                   11-4 Conferences week begins

                                                   11-8 No School   

                                                   11-11 No School

WEEK OF OCTOBER 28-NOVEMBER 1

The Halloween parade and party at school has a few guidelines to remember:
All costumes have to be able to go over your child's clothes. Nothing that resembles a weapon is allowed.
Home Baked items are also not allowed due to allergies. 


  A Look at Next Week:

Spelling- Lesson 9     -0 or -1 will be in Challenge group

               Monday - Pretest   

               Thursday- Spelling Homework Due

               Friday - Spelling test

Social Studies-   Chapter 5 - "The Struggle to Found Colonies"

Lesson 1 - 1607 Jamestown

Hard Times in Virginia, The Spanish Armada, John Smith, Self-Government in Virginia. We will continue with this lesson next week. 

Reading-  Non-Fiction Text Organization. We will: Identify thin and thick questions, compare and contrast the overall structure of information in texts (text structure, text features, graphic organizers), homonyms and multi- meaning words. Our theme for this unit is "Natures Fury". We will continue using a variety of Non-Fiction texts to reinforce these skills. 

Reading Projects: The students are to read a REALISTIC FICTION book.

 They will be making a memory bag to go along with their story and give a small presentation at the end. The final due date for the project is November, 7. 

Language Arts-  We will Continue with Chapter 2. We will learn about :Common and Proper Nouns, Writing with Nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns,  Singular Possessive Nouns, and Plural Possessive Nouns.

Science-    Chapter 6 - Ecosystems and Change.  

Lesson 1-"How Do Organisms Compete and Survive in an Ecosystem?" In this lesson we will learn about interactions in nature, symbiosis, predator-prey relationships.

Math-    Chapter 3 - Divide by a One-Digit Divisor

L 1- Relate Division to Multiplication- Using related multiplication facts to solve division problems and related division facts to solve multiplication problems.
L 2- Division Models- Use models to represent and solve division problems.

L 3- 2 Digit Dividends- Division of whole numbers involving a repeated process of dividing, multiplying and subtracting (both with and without remainders)  

L 4- Division Patterns- Using basic multiplication facts and patterns to divide multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 mentally.
L 5- Estimate Quotients- Using compatible numbers to divide mentally to estimate quotients. 

L 6- Division Models with Greater Numbers- Using models to find quotients of 3-digit dividends and 1-digit dividends.

 We will also work on our quickness and fluency on our division facts! 

IMPORTANT DATES

                                                   10-28 Art to Remember due
                                                   10-29  Mr. Blockers final Junior Achievement visit

                                                   10-29 Coupon Book due

                                                   10-29 Spirit Day  GO BULLS!  (wear red and black)

                                                   10-31 Halloween - 1:15 parade  1:30 Party

                                                   11-3 Daylight Savings  *Change Your Clocks

                                                   11-4 Conferences week begins

                                                   11-8 No School   

                                                   11-11 No School

WEEK OF OCTOBER 21-25, 2013

                                               OCTOBER 21-25, 2013      


  A Look at Next Week:

Spelling- Lesson 8     -0 or -1 will be in Challenge group

               Monday - Pretest   

               Thursday- Spelling Homework Due

               Friday - Spelling test

Social Studies-  We will begin Chapter 5 - "The Struggle to Found Colonies"

Lesson 1 - 1607 Jamestown

Hard Times in Virginia, The Spanish Armada, John Smith, Self-Government in Virginia. We will continue with this lesson next week. 

Reading-  Non-Fiction Text Organization. We will: Identify thin and thick questions, compare and contrast the overall structure of information in texts (text structure, text features, graphic organizers), homonyms and multi- meaning words. Our theme for this unit is "Natures Fury". We will continue reading Earthquake Terror. We are also using a variety of Non-Fiction texts to reinforce these skills. 

Reading Projects: The students are to read a REALISTIC FICTION book.

The students should create reading goals by setting a certain number of pages to be read each week. They will be making a memory bag to go along with their story and give a small presentation at the end. The final due date for the project is November, 7. (Only 3 weeks away!)

Language Arts-  We will Continue with Chapter 2. We will learn about :Common and Proper Nouns, Writing with Nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns,  and Singular Possessive Nouns.

Science-   We will begin Chapter 6 - Ecosystems and Change.  

Lesson 1-"How Do Organisms Compete and Survive in an Ecosystem?" In this lesson we will learn about interactions in nature, symbiosis, predator-prey relationships.

Math-   Chapter 2: Multiply Whole Numbers  CHAPTER TEST IS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22. 

The students should review their textbook, homework sheets and their notes in their spirals.They took a practice test in class on Friday and this should be helpful for them to practice. On Wednesday, we will begin Chapter 3.

L1- Relate Division to Multiplication- Using related multiplication facts to solve division problems and related division facts to solve multiplication problems.

L2- Division Models- Use models to represent and solve division problems.

L3- 2 Digit Dividends- Division of whole numbers involving a repeated process of dividing, multiplying and subtracting (both with and without remainders)   We will also work on our quickness and fluency on our division facts! 

IMPORTANT DATES

 OCTOBER 22 - MR. BLOCKER FOR JR. ACHIEVEMENT

OCTOBER 24 - EARLY DISMISSAL 11:00

OCTOBER 24 - BUS DRIVER APPRECIATION DAY

OCTOBER 25- BINGO NIGHT 6:30

OCTOBER 31- HALLOWEEN PARADE 1:00/PARTIES 1:30

Week of October 14 - 18

WEEK OF OCTOBER 14 - 18, 2013

A Look at Next Week:

Spelling- Lesson 7     -0 or -1 will be in Challenge group

               Tuesday - Pretest   

               Thursday- Spelling Homework Due

               Friday - Spelling test

Social Studies-  We will begin Chapter 5 - "The Struggle to Found Colonies"

Lesson 1 - 1607 Jamestown

Hard Times in Virginia, The Spanish Armada, John Smith, Self-Government in Virgina

Reading-  Non-Fiction Text Organization. We will: Identify thin and thick questions, compare and contrast the overall structure of information in texts (text structure, text features, graphic organizers), homonyms and multi- meaning words. Our theme for this unit is "Natures Fury". We will begin by reading Earthquake Terror. 

Reading Projects: The students are to read a REALISTIC FICTION book.

The students should create reading goals by setting a certain number of pages to be read each week. They will be making a memory bag to go along with their story and give a small presentation at the end. The final due date for the project is November, 7.

Language Arts-  We will begin Chapter 2 . We will begin this chapter learning about nouns.

Science-   We will continue Chapter 5 on How Energy is Passed Through an Ecosystem. We will learn about food webs, the energy pyramid and natural cycles. We will have our Chapter test Thursday, October 17th. The students should begin reviewing their notes in their Science folder and their vocabulary cards. 

Math-   Chapter 2: Multiply Whole Numbers  
We learned about prime and composite numbers and the divisibility rule. I encouraged the students to remember these rules ( in math spiral). We learned several strategies for identifying the prime factors of whole numbers, and understand how to express prime factorization correctly. We also learned about powers and exponents, and the distributive property. We will learn this week how to estimate products, multiply one and two digit numbers. *The students should regularly practice their multiplication facts. We will practice as a warm up for math each day this week. We are practicing our fluency and quickness!

IMPORTANT DATES

 OCTOBER 11 - MOVIE NIGHT

OCTOBER 14 - NO SCHOOL

OCTOBER 15 - MR. BLOCKER FOR JR. ACHIEVEMENT
OCTOBER 17 - BOOK FAIR

OCTOBER 24 - EARLY DISMISSAL

WEEK OF OCTOBER 7 - 11

WEEK OF OCTOBER 7-11
A Look at Next Week:

Spelling- Lesson 6     -0 or -1 will be in Challenge group

               Monday- Pretest   

               Thursday- Spelling Homework Due

               Friday - Spelling test

Social Studies- We will continue with Chapter 4 "Spain Builds and Empire" 

We will continue on Lesson 3 learning about the structure of society in 'New Spain" and how the native people lost their traditional way of life. We will end our unit this week. We will have our Chapter test on Wednesday. The students are encouraged to review their notes and their textbooks. They are not able to use either of these during the test.  The test will have both multiple choice and questions asking for complete sentences. 

Reading-  We will finish up work with Tall Tales by the students writing their own tall tale. This week we will begin Unit 2: Non-Fiction Text Organization. We will: Identify thin and thick questions, compare and contrast the overall structure of information in texts (text structure, text features, graphic organizers), homonyms and multi- meaning words. Our theme for this unit is "Natures Fury". We will begin by reading Earthquake Terror.

Reading Projects: The students are to read a REALISTIC FICTION book.

The students should create reading goals by setting a certain number of pages to be read each week. They will be making a memory bag to go along with their story and give a small presentation at the end. The final due date for the project is November, 7.

Language Arts-  We will be writing a Pyramid Poem this week. The student will choose a picture and write their poems using what they learned in this unit. This will end our unit on sentences. We will have our chapter test on Thursday. The students should be able to identify sentences fragments, the 4 different types of sentences           ( imperative, declarative, interrogative and exclamatory), complete and simple subjects, complete and simple predicates, conjunctions and run-on sentences. 

Science-   We will continue Chapter 5 on How Energy is Passed Through an Ecosystem. We will learn about food webs, the energy pyramid and natural cycles. 

Math-   We began Chapter 2: Multiply Whole Numbers  
We learned about prime and composite numbers and the divisibility rule. I encouraged the students to remember these rules ( in math spiral). We learned several strategies for identifying the prime factors of whole numbers, and understand how to express prime factorization correctly. We also learned about powers and exponents. We will have a review on Monday over prime and composite numbers, prime factorization and power and exponents. They have everything they need to review in their math spirals. We will then move to multiplication patterns, problem solving , use partial products and the distributive property. 

IMPORTANT DATES
OCTOBER 8- MR. BLOCKER FOR JR. ACHIEVEMENT
OCTOBER 9- WEAR ORANGE FOR UNITE AGAINST BULLYING DAY
OCTOBER 10- MOVIE FORMS DUE
OCTOBER 11- MOVIE NIGHT
OCTOBER 14- NO SCHOOL