HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND!!
Movie Night is Friday, October 12th. If your child is attending, slips need to be turned in by Wednesday, October 10th.
***The fifth grade teachers would like help in organizing their classroom libraries in a different way. We would like to label each book with its lexile score so that students can make better choices for independent reading. Selecting books at appropriate lexile levels will help students increase fluency and comprehension while reading books that are of high-interest to them. Please contact me if you are interested.***
HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM:
SPELLING: Lesson 6 and word of the week.
ENGLISH: Unit 5 Capitalization and Punctuation - We have one lesson left on using titles correctly. TEST - Thursday!
SCOOPer Reading - Due date is Friday, October 19th.
READING.....
COURAGE - Our next selection is Jacob's Rescue.
A synopsis: Once Jacob Gutgeld lived with his family in a beautiful house in Warsaw, Poland. He went to school and played hide-and-seek in the woods with his friends. But everything changed the day the Nazi soldiers invaded in 1939. Suddenly it wasn't safe to be Jewish anymore.
We will be doing vocabulary cards with self selected words. The students will be doing activities based around the three levels of questioning: right there, think and search, and on your own.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 5 Lesson 2 "New European Colonies" and Lesson 3 "The First Colonies". We will be comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between the different colonies.
SCIENCE: Weather.... The students will be applying the knowledge they have learned to create a MIMEO presentation!!!
MATH: Tuesday = Quiz Lessons 1-3. We will then continue with long division and have problems that have a zero in the quotient. The students will also be looking at patterns in division that will sharpen their mental math skills.
We are taking MULTIPLICATION MAD MINUTE QUIZZES!!! Your child will be given a page of 30 mixed multiplication facts to pass in 1 minute. Once they have passed three of the 30 mixed MAD MINUTES....they can try to pass 40 problems in one minute!
SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 5 Lesson 2 "New European Colonies" and Lesson 3 "The First Colonies". We will be comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between the different colonies.
SCIENCE: Weather.... The students will be applying the knowledge they have learned to create a MIMEO presentation!!!
MATH: Tuesday = Quiz Lessons 1-3. We will then continue with long division and have problems that have a zero in the quotient. The students will also be looking at patterns in division that will sharpen their mental math skills.
We are taking MULTIPLICATION MAD MINUTE QUIZZES!!! Your child will be given a page of 30 mixed multiplication facts to pass in 1 minute. Once they have passed three of the 30 mixed MAD MINUTES....they can try to pass 40 problems in one minute!
