Class Needs
Our
class is in need of an electric pencil sharpener. We would greatly appreciate a donation!
Readers’ Workshop
This
week we are revisiting “Thought Jots”.
As students read, they have been taught to record their thinking on the
yellow post-its they received in class.
Our focus this week will be analyzing our thoughts to determine what is
worthy of a “Thought Jot”. Your child
should have a small stack of post-its in the front of the book they are reading. These post-its should be used to record their
thinking during their 20-30 minutes of nightly reading. Ask your child what thinking is worthy of a
“Thought Jot”.
Our second
Reading BINGO response for the second nine weeks is due this Thursday, November
14th.
Writers’ Workshop
This week we will continue to draft
our Harris Burdick narratives. We have
studied dialogue and paragraph rules and will work on building suspense this
week. Your child is welcome to bring
their Writer’s Notebook home to share their progress.
Skills
Students should study and
complete one of the homework options for spelling list 8. Our quiz will be Friday. The quiz will also
cover our skills sheet. This week’s
focus is adjectives. Our daily skills
sheet (in their ROAR folder) will serve as their study guide.
Social Studies
We will continue learning about
citizenship. Students
will not have a quiz on Friday, due to the shortened week. We will
spend our class time reading a play that depicts a group of kids trying to work
for the common good. When they learn their soccer field may be replaced by a new
building, they brainstorm ideas to save the soccer field.
Math
We will have two quizzes in math this week, as we continue our
study of multiplication. Wednesday's quiz will be moved to Thursday this week,
due to the shortened week. It will cover our in-class work with
arrays, or rectangular multiplication models. Students will be learning to recognize
smaller arrays inside a larger array. We will practice skip counting our way
to the product two ways (using either dimension). For example, to find
7x3=21, students could count by 7 three times or by 3 seven times. To prepare for the
quiz, students should study their yellow sheets "Finding the Number of
Squares in an Array.”
Our second quiz is a timed fact fluency quiz on the 5s and 10s. Students will have
three and a half minutes to solve as many of the problems as they can. They should review
their fluency homework sheets, review their multiplication charts, and play the
"Snapping Skipcount" game to prepare.
Science
Our study of energy is underway. Students
will have a quiz on Friday. Students should study their review sheets from lesson one,
as well as the Energy: Causing Motion and Creating Change charts in their
notebooks. We will
explore more of the basic forms of energy as we work to build and Energy House.
Students
can earn monkey moolah by bringing in small pictures (printed, clipped, or
drawn) of objects that can fill the house. Items will be added to the house if
students can explain how they cause motion and/or create change, in addition to
the type of energy they exhibit. We will take our study of the basic forms of energy to the
next level by taking a look at potential and kinetic energy in our
rollercoaster lab. Ask your child about their rollercoaster design!
