Math- The students have been using different strategies to help them understand and solve multiplication problems-place value models, arrays, and area models. This week they will use the distributive property and partial products to multiply numbers that involve regrouping. This strategy is used to help the students understand how to break apart, decompose, the numbers to solve multiplication problems with multi-digit numbers and regrouping. They will also multiply multi-digit numbers with zeros by a one-digit number. A test is planned for Thursday, Dec. 5 over the skills in chapter 4. The students should save all the workbook pages that are in their math folder to use as study tools. There will also be a review of skills sheet that will go home.
Spelling There will be no spelling on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 27 and 28th. The spelling unit for the following week will cover the sounds of /or/, /ur/, and /yoor/. They will be responsible for pages 167-169.
Reading- In reading the focus will be on writing summaries. The students will use what they learn about summaries to write a summary of the story Because of Winn Dixie. They will also work on understanding antonyms and synonyms. They will use their resources- dictionaries,thesauruses, and the computer to help them find synonyms and antonyms of words.
English - The students will edit and revise their stories this week. These stories should include onomatopoeia, and a simile or a metaphor in them. They will write final drafts of their stories. We will begin a unit on nouns. They will learn what a noun is and the difference between a common and proper noun.
Social Studies- We will have a quiz on chapter 5 lesson 1 The Narragansett People, on Tuesday, Nov. 28th. The students should know all the vocabulary and key concepts for this section. They should use the sheets in their folders as a study tool as well. They should:
Understand the Iroquois Confederacy and how they work with the Great Council.
How did the Narragansett lives change when the Europeans arrived in the Northeast? Be able to tell as many ways as you can.
Who was Roger Williams and why was he important to the Narragansett?
Science - The students will learn how plants reproduce through spores and some other ways that they grow. They will understand the life cycles of some animals.
