Book Report: The next book report is due on November 30, and the students will present this to the class. For this report, they will need to read a nonfiction book. The assignment is making an organizer with all the important information. We did a practice one in class with our story about Roberto Clemente. If you have any questions about this report please let me know.
Math: In math we will start unit 4. The first lesson will focus on using friendly numbers to divide. Then we will work on dividing using the traditional method and partial quotients. This week the students will learn strategies for estimating straight path distances using a map scale. They will also learn how to make magnitude estimates for division. These estimates will help the students place the decimal while dividing. The last lesson this week will focus on solving number stories using division. The students will have to decided what to do with the remainder. The three choices are: round up, ignore the remainder, or change the remainder to a decimal or a fraction.
Writing: This week in writing, the students will review the 4 square organizer. We will go over the different components and fill one out together. Then we will define what an expository paper is and use our organizer to write one.We will also continue working on our dead word book. This book will have a graveyard of overused words, and the students will make a list of synonyms for these words. I also would like to do a lesson on the use of transitions to make our sentences sound more fluent. Last week we worked on combining sentences to make our papers sound more fluent, and next week we will continue working on this skill.
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 on Monday to the class. The fifth grade team decided to give them one more day to work on their project. On Tuesday the students will learn about the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
Spelling Unit 10:
crisis knives media roofs pianos waves wishes armies briefs videos
heroes data bacteria oxen tomatoes canoes berries loaves lives
messages foxes breaths tragedies buses skis hypotheses analyses
phenomena vertebrae antennae arteries monkeys journeys hooves magnetism
voyageur conclusion portage mission replies
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.
The purpose of the parents’ meeting is to inform you of the material your child will be seeing and to answer any questions you might have about the Robert Crown student visitation.If you have any questions about this unit or about the meeting, please contact me.I hope you will be able to attend one of the sessions.
NEW READING INCENTIVE PROGRAM:
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:
Book Fair Begins
Presenting colonies Monday, November 7
PTA meeting on Monday, November 7
Picture Re-Take Day Tuesday, November 8
Spelling Test Wednesday, November 9
Conferences Wednesday night from 4:30 - 8:00 This is a regular school day.
Conferences Thursday, November 10 from 8:00 - 8:00 There is no school today.
No school on Friday, Novmeber 11
Book Report due on Wednesday, November 30
