Homework 9-27

Reading - Read 20 minutes, book report due Sept. 30

Spelling - Contract & Test due Wed., Sept. 29

5P Math - Study Link 2.6

5G Math - Journal pages 54 & 55

Science - Precipitation Worksheet, Test Wednesday

Newsletter for the week of Sept. 27

Reading: This week we will read the story "Dear Mrs. Parks".  This story consists of letters written to Rosa Parks by students, and her replies, on subjects ranging from getting along in school to the changes she has seen in her lifetime.  One of the focus skills is making judgments.  While reading the students will learn to determine if what they read provides reasonable and reliable information.  They will evaluate the author's facts and opinions and then make their judgments.  We will also be working on the extended response.  This week, we will work on answering the question, finding evidence, and starting to interpret the evidence.  Vocabualry analysis is another skill that will be focused on.  The students will continue to use context clues to define words.  The words for this story are ridiculed, dignity, counsel, potential, inspire, correspondence, and mentor.

Math: In math the students have started unit 2.  The students have reviewed traditional method for addition, partial sums, subtraction, open number stories, and estimating.  This week will will learn about probability, latice method for multiplication, partial products, and traditional method for multiplication.  The students will also continue to work on using the landmark data.  This data is: maximum, minimum, range, mode, median, and mean.

Writing: There will be a variety of activities for this week. We will continue working on "storying" which helps students come up with ideas.  With storying this week, the students will continue to listen to memoirs and write down the common characteristics of memoirs.  The students will also learn about the structure of a memoir, and we will define a memoir.  They will also make a list of questions to help them write a memoir and use a visual tool to assist students in writing their memoir.  They have created a special place map, and we will use that map to write their first memoir.  We will also start learning about the book review.  For the first book review we will focus on the introduction, summarizing and recommendation. 

Science: So far this unit the students have learned about the layers of the atmosphere, the three states of matter, the wind vane, the anemometer, and the barometer. The wind vane shows the direction the wind is blowing, and the anemometer shows the speed of the wind.  The barometer measures the air pressure.  The air pressure can be measured in inches or millibars. The students have also learned five properties of air.  These properties are: hot air rises, air takes up space, air is lighter than water, air space changes with temperature, and what can happen when the air temperature changes suddenly.  They also learned about the water cycle and the three cloud types.  This week they will see how a cloud forms and learn about the four types of precipitation.  The test will be on Wednesday.

Social Studies: We will start social studies this week after taking the science test.  The first lesson focuses on traveling the Silk Road and trade in the Eastern Hemisphere.  The second lesson focuses on Africa's trading empires.

Spelling: Unit 3 Words:
parts       history       warning       declare       despair       shirt
learning       backward       border       prepared       harsh 
research       carnival       particular       squirrel       harmful
charms       disorder       favored       remark       correspondence
generations       constitution       literature       assurance       pressure
charisma       aerobic       archery       boundary       architecture
familiar       pleasure       gesture        opinion       armada       quivered
barometer       Mayflower Compact

Important Dates:

Spelling test Wednesday, September 29
Science test Wednesday, September 29
Picture day Wednesday, September 29

Book Report due Thursday, September 30

Homework 9-24

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due 9-30

Spelling - Contract & Test due Wednesday, Sept. 29

5G Math - Sl 2.2

Science - Study guide due 9-28, Test 9-30

Homework 9-23

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Spelling - Test & Contract due on Wednesday, Sept. 29

5P Math - SL 2.5

5G Math - ?

Science - Cloud Worksheet, Test Tuesday, Sept. 28

Homework 9-22

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due Sept. 30

5P Math - Study link 2.4, Journal page 39

5G Math - Journal pages 44 & 42

Bring recorders tomorrow

Homework 9-21

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due Sept. 30

Spelling - Contract & Test due tomorrow

5P Math - Study Link 2.3, Journal page 35

5G Math - None

Homework 9-20

Reading- Read 20 minutes, Book Report 9/30

Spelling - Contract & Test due on Wednesday, Sept. 22

5P Math - Study Link 2.2

Science - Worksheet on the barometer

Homework 9-17

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Spelling - Test and COntract for Wednesday, Sept. 22

5G Math - Test Mnday, Sept. 20, Study Links 1.11 & 1.12

Homework 9-14

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Spelling - Contract & Test due tomorrrow

5P Math - Test tomorrow

5G Math - Test Monday

Homework 9-13

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Spelling - Contract and Test for Wednesday, Sept. 15

5P Math - Study Link 1.9, Study Guide due Tuesday, Sept. 14, Test Wednesday, Sept. 15

5G Math - Pages 32-33 in journal, Test Monday, Sept. 20

Reading: This week the focus story is "Sees Behind Trees". This story is about a young Native American boy, Walnut, who has poor eyesight.  Walnut overcomes his poor eyesight using an unusual skill to get his adult name.  The skills that we will focus on this week are ask and respond to open ended questions using TTQA, evidence, and interpretation. TTQA stands for turn the question around. The students will also work on narrative elements. I will be looking for characters, setting, plot, conflict, solution. The students will continue working on vocabulary strategies.  The vocabulary words for this story are: quiver, tread, moss, sternly, exaggerate, and compose.


Math: In math the students have learned about arays, factors, and divisibilty rules. The students also learned about prime and composite numbers and square numbers. Prime numbers have exactly 2 factors and composite numbers have more than two numbers. The number 1 is not prime or composite. This week they will learn about prime factorization.  On Tuesday, we will go over their study guide, and the test will be on Wednesday.  On Thursday, we will start chapter two and the focus will be on estimation and addition.

Writing: There will be a variety of activities for this week. We will continue working on "storying" which helps students come up with ideas.  With storying this week, the students will create a special place map and will start writing a memoir using their map.  We will also start learning about the book review.  For the first book review we will focus on the introduction, summarizing and recommendation.  The students will also continue working on their own fortunately/unfortunately book.

Science: So far this unit the students have learned about the layers of the atmosphere, the three states of matter, the wind vane, and the anemometer. The wind vane shows the direction the wind is blowing, and the anemometer shows the speed of the wind. The students have also learned three properties of air.  These properties are: hot air rises, air takes up space, and air is lighter than water.  This week the students will learn about the barometer, air space changes with temperature, the water cycle, and how to read a humidity chart.

Social Studies: We will go into social studies when we finish the weather unit.

Spelling: Unit 2 Words
stayed         brain         thief         meat         flight         style         delighted         daily 
breathe        meanwhile         believes         tonight         increased         explained
slightly         payment         brief         tray         byte         raise         tight         type
remain         chief         pleaded         accommodate         decrease         intermediate
league         decisive         indicate         propane         righteous         acquaintance
relieved         molecule         voyage         compensation         expedition         connotation

Important Dates:
Band/Orchestra Registration at Hill on Monday, September 13 starting at 4:00 P.M.
Spelling test Wednesday, September 15
5P Math Test Wednesday, September 15
Book Report due Thursday, September 30

Homework 9-10

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book report due Sept. 30

Spelling - Contract and test due Wednesday, Sept. 15

5P Math - Study Link 1.8, Study Guide due Tuesday, Sept. 14, Test Wednesday, Sept. 15

5G Math - Pages 27 & 28 in journal

Homework 9-9

Reading- Read 20 minutes, Book report due on Sept. 30

Spelling- Contract and Test for Wednesday, Sept. 15

5P Math - Study Link 1.7, Study Guide due Tuesday, Sept. 14, Test Wednesday, Sept. 15

5G Math -

Homework 9-8

Reading- Read 20 minutes, Book Report due September 30

5P Math - Study Link 1.6, study guide due Monday, Sept. 13, Test Tuesday, Sept. 14

5G Math - Study Link 1.5, 1.6

Newsletter: Week of September 6

Reading: This week we will continue focusing on the story "The Hot and Cold Summer". This story is about two boys, Rory and Derek, who refuse to speak with Bolivia who is new. When Bolivia's pet escapes, the boys realize that Bolivia may be interesting after all.  The skills that we will focus on this week are ask and respond to open ended questions using TTQA, evidence, and interpretation.  TTQA stands for turn the question around.  The students will also work on narrative elements.  I will be looking for characters, setting, plot, conflict, solution.  The students will continue working on vocabulary strategies.

Math: In math the students have learned about arays, factors, and divisibilty rules. This week we will continue to work on factors and divisibilty rules. The students will learn about prime and composite numbers. Prime numbers have exactly 2 factors and composite numbers have more than two numbers. The number 1 is not prime or composite. They will also learn about square numbers and prime factorization.

Writing: There will be a variety of activities for this week. We will continue working on "storying" which helps students come up with ideas. The students will also create their own fortunately/unfortunately book after listening to the book entitled Fortunately, Unfortunately.

Science: Last week we finished learning about the layers of the atmosphere.  The students also learned about the three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. This week the students will learn about the wind vane and the anemometer. The wind vane shows the direction the wind is blowing, and the anemometer shows the speed of the wind. The students will also learn how air occupies space, and how air's space changes with temperatures.

Social Studies: We will go into social studies when we finish the weather unit.

Spelling: Unit 1 words
master         ahead         build         front         meant         bread         ready         busy         quit
mother        above         does         advantage         business         sweater         plastic         balance
limit         among         dozen         activity         building         heavy         biscuit         purpose
astonish         symmetric         cyclical         abandon         subsequent         expository         abundant
accomplish         mishap         extraordinary         atmosphere         exploration         weather
territory         troposphere

Important Dates:
No School Monday, September 6: Labor Day
No School Tuesday, September 7: Building Articulation Day 8/29/10
Spelling test Wednesday, September 8
5P math test Tuesday, September 14
Book Report due Thursday, September 30

Homework 9-3

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due September 30

5P Math - Study guide due September 13, Test September 14

5G Math - Journal page

Spelling - Sentences and test for Wednesday, September 8

Homework 9-2

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book report due on September 30

5P Math - Jounral page 14

5G Math - Study link 1.4, journal page 16

Spelling - Test and sentences for Wednesday, September 8

Science - Quiz over the layers of the atmosphere tomorrow

Book Order due tomorrow

Homework 9-1

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due September 30
5P Math - Study Link 1.4
Science - Quiz over the layers of the atmosphere Friday, Sept. 3
Book Order due Friday, Sept. 3

Homework 9-1

Reading - Read 20 minutes
Math -
Science - Quiz over the layers of the atmosphere Friday, Sept. 3
Book Order due Friday, Sept. 3

Newsletter: Week of August 30

Reading: The story we will be focusing on this week is entitled "The Hot and Cold Summer".  This story is about two boys, Rory and Derek, who refuse to speak with Bolivia who is new.  When Bolivia's pet escapes, the boys realize that Bolivia may be interesting after all.  While reading the story, we will focus on using predictions to help us understand/comprehend the story.  After reading the story, the students will work on making connections.  There are three ways they can make connections: text to self, text to text, and text to world.  The students will also work on defining and using new vocabulary words.  The vocabulary words for this week are commotion, authority, exhausted, incredible, vow, and souvenir.

Math: In math we started learning about arrays.  This week we will continue to work on arrays and factors.  The students will learn about divisibilty rules and how to use them.  They will also learn about prime and composite numbers.  Prime numbers have exactly 2 factors and composite numbers have more than two numbers.  The number 1 is not prime or composite.  Throughout this week, they will also play the game factor captor to reinforce the lesson on factors. 

Writing: There will be a variety of activities for this week.  We will review the writing process and talk about why writing is so important.  For the next two weeks, we will be working on "storying" which helps students come up with ideas.  There will also be a timed writing prompt given this week to get baseline data on the students.  This will help me see where all the students are at with their writing.

Science:  Last week we started to learn about the layers of the atmosphere.  This week the students will make a diagram of these layers and take a quiz over them.  The students will also learn about the wind vane and the anemometer.  The wind vane shows the direction the wind is blowing and the anemometer shows the speed of the wind.  The students will also learn about air, the states of matter, and how air occupies space.

Social Studies:  We will go into social studies when we finish the weather unit.

Spelling:  There will be a pretest on Thursday of this week.  The words for the week will be posted after the pretest.

Important Dates:

• Band/Orchestra Parent Night: Tuesday, August 31
• Curriculum Night: Wednesday, September 1 - First Session 7:05 - 7:35, Math Session 7:40-7:50, Second Session 7:55-8:25  
• Science quiz over the layers of the atmosphere: Thursday, September 2
• No School Monday, September 6: Labor Day
• No School Tuesday, September 7: Building Articulation Day