News from the Week of 12/13

In reading we finished Charlotte's Web. It was a sad but sweet ending and we are now working on our culminating activity. Next week we will be watching the video and having a special spider celebration. After the break we will break into smaller groups for reading three days a week. Each group will focus on certain skills according to their needs. Kim Stock will be teaching two of the groups in order to provide more focused instructional time for each group.

The children took the chapter three math test on Thursday covering measuring, area and perimeter. After the break we will be moving on to multiplication and division. If your child's adding and subtracting skills are weak (cannot complete 30 math facts in a minute)he/she will be receiving work on a certain fact family (i.e. 4+7=11, 7+4=11, 11-7=4, 11-4=7) each week. Addition and subtraction facts are key to success in multiplication and division and mastery of basic facts is essential. Reviewing flashcards and fact families at home is a good way to help strengthen these skills.

On Wednesday there is a social studies test. In your child's Friday Folder should be a packet of social studies worksheets for review. Next week instead of the typical homework assignments in math and English, assignments will be given from the social studies text book in order to help review for the test. After the break we will start a new chapter in science entitled "Conserving Resources."

There will be no new spelling or vocabulary homework for next week. We will be reviewing the past four chapters from our green vocabulary book.

Today we cleaned out our lockers and our desks. Please take time this weekend to clean out your child's Friday folder and backpack. The only thing from General Studies that needs to be kept is the social studies review packet that should be in the "study papers" section of the Friday folder.

Enjoy the weekend and the upcoming break!

Homework for the Week of 12/13-12/17

All homework is subject to change. Changes will be discussed in class, corrected on blue assignment sheet and listed on updated post.

*****Math Test Thursday- please review with math study packet in Friday Folder.

Monday
Math Home Links 3.8, study for test
Read for 15 minutes
Spelling-Study for Spelling test, bring back last Friday's test corrected and signed
Mad Minute 11 or 21


Tuesday
Write spelling words 3X. Please use spelling sheet sent home today.
Workbook Plus p. 29 & 30 OR Reteaching - p. 19
Read for 15 minutes
Mad Minute 12 or 22
Study for math test


Wednesday
Math - Home Links 3.9 Parents need to review and sign, study for math test
Spelling word search
Read for 15 minutes
Mad Minute 13 or 23


Thursday
Workbook Plus p. 31-32 OR Reteaching - p. 20
Study for spelling test
Read for 15 minutes
Mad Minute 14 or 24


Spelling List
actual
brink
chill
conquer
fortunate
fury
intend
pattern
vibrant
wit

Homework for the Week of 12/6-12/10

All homework is subject to change. Changes will be discussed in class, corrected on blue assignment sheet and listed on updated post.


Mon. - Math Home Links 3.6
Read for 15 minutes
Study for Spelling test - words in Assignment Notebook,
bring back last Friday's test corrected and signed
Mad Minute 11


Tues. - Write spelling words 3X. Please use spelling sheet sent home today.
Workbook Plus p. 27 OR Reteaching - p. 17
Read for 15 minutes
Mad Minute 12


Wed.. - Math Home Links 3.7
Spelling from Social Studies packet p. 18
Read for 15 minutes
Mad Minute 13


Thurs. - Workbook Plus p. 28 OR Reteaching - p. 18
Study for spelling test
Read for 15 minutes
Mad Minute 14


Spelling List from Social Studies Chapter 2
region
population
transportation
grid system
suburban
rural
agriculture
economy
urban
harbor

News from the Week of 12/2

We began chapter two, "Communities of Different Sizes," in Social Studies. The study skills introduced were previewing and questioning. This week we focused on urban communities and learned about the urban park planner, Frederick Law Olmstead. We also learned how to use a map grid.

In math we reviewed how to find the perimeter of a polygon and explored ways to make and measure different perimeters. The children enjoyed using geoboards to find the measurement of the sides of shapes with certain perimeters. We also are developing the concept of area using square units. Today we used one foot squares to estimate the area of different surfaces around the room.

The bulletin board outside of our room has been changed into an enormous spider web that we created as a class. In our novel, Charlotte's Web, we learned that Charlotte's plan to save Wilbur involved spinning different words in to her web to highlight his positive qualities. Each student chose a word to describe him/herself. Then he/she looked up the word in a thesaurus to find a similar word to make a part of our spider web on the bulletin board. Each word has been decorated to look like part of the web and even has a spider attached to it.

I hope that you are enjoying the holiday season! Happy Chanukah!

Homework Change 12/2

English Workbook Plus p. 25 & 26 or Reteaching p.16 (See Tuesday's homework assignment for specifics.)