Reading: This week in reading, we will use a variety of literature to teach our skills. We will continue with vocabulary and using context clues to define words. We will be reading articles from the Time for Kids magazines and using read alouds to teach our skills. This week in reading we will be distinguishing between significant and minor details in a reading selection. We will also be reading to form an opinion and take a stance using our Time for Kids magazine, and working on higher level thinking skills.
Book Report: The next book report is due on October 31, and the students will present this to the class. For this report, they will need to make a newspaper page. The assignment has the requirements copied on the back. If you have any questions about this report please let me know.
Book Report: The next book report is due on October 31, and the students will present this to the class. For this report, they will need to make a newspaper page. The assignment has the requirements copied on the back. If you have any questions about this report please let me know.
Math: In math we started unit 3. The first two lessons focused on data collection, organization, and interpreting data. The third lesson focused on finding the measurements of angles inside a polygon without using a protractor. The students will use a circle to figure out these measurements. Last week we worked on the different types of angles and measuring them using a protractor. The acute angle is less than 90 degrees. An obtuse angle is greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees. A right angle is exactly 90 degrees, and a reflex angle is greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees. Then they learned about the radius and the diameter of a circle. They also learned about the measurements of vertical and adjacent angles. Adjacent angles form a straight angle so the sum of the angles equal 180 degrees. Vertical angles have the same measurement. They also learned about the different types of triangles, and how to use a compass to copy them. This week the lessons will focus on the properties of polygons and tessellations. The test will be on Thursday.
Writing: This week in writing, the students will finish writing a memoir from the point of view of their stuffed animal. In groups, the students will create a written story for a wordless picture book. We will also create a dead word book. This book will have a graveyard of overused words, and the students will make a list of synonyms for those words. I also would like to do a lesson on the use of transitions to make our sentences sound more fluent.
Science: We will go back to science after finishing our social studies chapters for this quarter.
Social Studies: This week in groups, the students will continue to create their own colony and develop a vision of their colony 3 years out. They will have to develop a political system, create a flag, name the colony, create a story of the discovery, map the location, figure out a 3 year plan to pay back their charter, and look at the economy. Each group will then present their colony to the class.
Spelling Unit 8:
American frozen button chapter tractor golden taken harbor father
color ancestor hidden hamburger theater weather beckon cannon
comparison elder turban desperate frostbitten laden emergency straighten
forbidden sovereign battalion examine amplifier renovator reverberate
calendar interpreter wanderer proprietor conestoga indigo despair Congress
HEALTHY SNACK LIST:
Due to life-threatening peanut/nuts/sesame allergies at every grade level and the fact that we change classes for math and flex groups, we are asking that no peanut/nut/sesame products be sent in for a nutritional snack. Also a list was sent home that stated the food items that will be allowed for snacks. The following items can be brought in: fruit, vegetable sticks, pretzels, cheese slices or cubes, raisins, cereal mix (i.e. Chex Mix), rice cakes, and crackers.
Robert Crown:
Thursday, November 17, 2011 Wednesday, November 30, 2011
7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Brooks Elementary School Patterson Elementary School
2700 Stonebridge Boulevard 3731 Lawrence Drive
Aurora, IL 60502 Naperville, IL 60564
(Stonebridge Subdivision; (Ashbury Subdivision;
West off of Eola Rd.) North off of 104th St. onto Lawrence Dr.)
This unit includes, as part of its material, a visit by our students to the Robert Crown Health Center in Hinsdale.
At the health center, students have a presentation on the growth changes that are about to begin in their bodies with the onset of puberty. They also will see a twenty-minute film on human growth and development.
There is a new reading incentive program that Mrs. May is doing. To earn the prize, the fifth graders will need to read 400 minutes in a month. That is 20 minutes a night. To learn more about the program go to Mrs. May's blog at mwlmc.blogspot.com.
Important Dates:
Conference Notes due Monday, October 24
Spelling Test Wednesday, October 26
Math Test Thursday, October 27
Report cards go home Friday, October 28
