Monday, Nov. 5 - P/T Conferences, No School
Tuesday, Nov. 4 - Teacher Institute Day, No School
Math - This week in math the students will find factors and multiples. They will understand that they can find all the factors of a number by thinking of factor pairs that result in a product of that number. They will also analyze the given information in real world problems to find reasonable answers. There will be a test over chapter 3 on Tuesday, November 11. They may use the extra pages in the text book as practice. They should also study the material from their folders.
Spelling- No Spelling this week.
Reading - In reading this week the students will be introduced to the world of mythology. The first myth they will read is The Myth of Hercules (Heracles). They will compare and contrast their views of a hero and evaluate whether or not they feel that Hercules has the traits to consider him a hero.
English- The students will work on writing titles correctly. They will review the skills from Chapter 5 and there will be a test on Friday of this week over chapter 5. They will have homework each night to help them study for their test. They can also study the end of the chapter lessons which review what they have learned throughout the chapter.
Science- This week the students will follow a rubric and design an invertebrate poster. We will begin the next chapter 3 lesson 2 Life Cycles of Plants.
Social Studies - We will begin a new chapter on the Southeast Region. They will learn about the states and bodies of water in the Southeast and they will be assigned to complete a map of the Southeast. This will be due on Tuesday, Nov. 11. They will have a quiz over the states and bodies of water on Wednesday, Nov. 12.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Friday, October 24, 2014
News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room October 27-31
October 27-29 Parent Teacher Conferences
October 31- Halloween Party- Kids should bring costumes to school if they wish. The parade will begin at 1:15 and the party will begin at 1:30.
November 3- No School
Math - This week there will be a quiz on Wednesday over lessons 1-4 in chapter 3. Thank you for signing their sheets each night. I appreciate all the help that you can give them in practicing their facts. They should continue to study their math multiplication facts. We will have a review of all facts test on Monday. It is so important for them to learn their facts now, to help make the future skills and concepts easier for them.
Spelling - The spelling pattern this week is the sound of ou. The students will be responsible for completing pages 117-119. If they pass out of their words on Monday, they will be responsible for completing the alternate word activities. Test on Friday.
English - The students will use their knowledge of capitalization and punctuation to apply to a fall story that they will write with a partner. They will be creating this story on the Chromebooks together. This will be a time where they really have to respect and work collaboratively with their partners, since they will be writing on the same page together.
Reading - The students will continue to dig deep into the Gloria Estefan Biography as they answer text dependent questions on their own this week. We will review cause effect relationships and the students will understand these relationships as they dig deeper into the text and work with a partner to write their own cause effect relationships from the biography.
Science- There will be a test on Chapter 1 lesson 3 in science on Thursday of this week. The students should review all vocabulary from this one lesson and the main concepts from the lesson. They should study all the worksheets from this lesson.
They should know:
Social Studies - The students will be working a project with the Narragansett this week in class. This week there is a quiz on Wednesday over Chapter 5 lesson 1 on the Narragansett. They should study the vocabulary and important concepts from this lesson. They should study all the worksheets in their folders.
October 31- Halloween Party- Kids should bring costumes to school if they wish. The parade will begin at 1:15 and the party will begin at 1:30.
November 3- No School
Math - This week there will be a quiz on Wednesday over lessons 1-4 in chapter 3. Thank you for signing their sheets each night. I appreciate all the help that you can give them in practicing their facts. They should continue to study their math multiplication facts. We will have a review of all facts test on Monday. It is so important for them to learn their facts now, to help make the future skills and concepts easier for them.
Spelling - The spelling pattern this week is the sound of ou. The students will be responsible for completing pages 117-119. If they pass out of their words on Monday, they will be responsible for completing the alternate word activities. Test on Friday.
English - The students will use their knowledge of capitalization and punctuation to apply to a fall story that they will write with a partner. They will be creating this story on the Chromebooks together. This will be a time where they really have to respect and work collaboratively with their partners, since they will be writing on the same page together.
Reading - The students will continue to dig deep into the Gloria Estefan Biography as they answer text dependent questions on their own this week. We will review cause effect relationships and the students will understand these relationships as they dig deeper into the text and work with a partner to write their own cause effect relationships from the biography.
Science- There will be a test on Chapter 1 lesson 3 in science on Thursday of this week. The students should review all vocabulary from this one lesson and the main concepts from the lesson. They should study all the worksheets from this lesson.
They should know:
- the five groups of vertebrates, their traits, examples of them
- understand invertebrates and the largest group of them
- difference between insects and spiders/ insects body parts and names of body parts
- understand arthropods
- exoskeletons
Social Studies - The students will be working a project with the Narragansett this week in class. This week there is a quiz on Wednesday over Chapter 5 lesson 1 on the Narragansett. They should study the vocabulary and important concepts from this lesson. They should study all the worksheets in their folders.
Friday, October 17, 2014
News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Oct 20-24
October 27-29 Parent Teacher conferences
October 31 - Halloween party will begin with a parade starting at 1:15 and the party beginning at 1:30. The students should bring their costumes to school.
Nov. 3 - No School
Math - In math this week, the students will continued to be tested on their math facts. Each night there will be new facts to study and every day they will be tested on those facts plus the ones they already were tested on. Please sign the homework sheet that goes home. It helps me know that they are keeping up with their facts. The students will learn that multiplication and division are opposite, or inverse operations. The will understand that a fact family is a set of four related multiplication and division facts.
I have set up 3 different sites they can log into which will help them to practice their math facts. They can log into their Google Classroom under math to find and then play them. If they print out their scores to show me they have practiced, I will give out Dojo points to them:)
Spelling - This week in spelling the students will work with more words that have long and short vowel sounds. They will be responsible for pages 99-101 in their workbooks volume 1.
English - The students will use commas to separate items in a series, after introductory words and to set off names of people begin addressed. They will also proofread for missing commas or misplaced commas.
Reading - The students will learn that making judgments involves deciding whether or not a character's actions are appropriate for a situation. They will work with vocabulary and text dependent questions with the intent of understanding the authors craft and structure as they read a biography about Gloria Estefan.
Science - You may ask your child what classifying means? (Grouping) Ask them how we classified the dinosaurs in today's activity. Scientists classify animals into two groups: vertebrates and invertebrates. We will continue to work with invertebrates this week. By the end of the week they should be able to tell you the 5 animal classes (FMBAR fish, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles) and three characteristics of each class. Can they give you two examples of each class of animals?
Social Studies - This week in social studies, the students will learn about the Native American tribe from the Northeast region called the Narragansett. They will describe key events that affected the Narragansett way of life once European settlers arrived. They will choose a project to do to show their understand of the Narragansett culture by either creating a picture or doing a writing activity. A quiz is scheduled for Friday of this week over lesson 1 in Chapter 5. The Narragansett People.
October 31 - Halloween party will begin with a parade starting at 1:15 and the party beginning at 1:30. The students should bring their costumes to school.
Nov. 3 - No School
Math - In math this week, the students will continued to be tested on their math facts. Each night there will be new facts to study and every day they will be tested on those facts plus the ones they already were tested on. Please sign the homework sheet that goes home. It helps me know that they are keeping up with their facts. The students will learn that multiplication and division are opposite, or inverse operations. The will understand that a fact family is a set of four related multiplication and division facts.
I have set up 3 different sites they can log into which will help them to practice their math facts. They can log into their Google Classroom under math to find and then play them. If they print out their scores to show me they have practiced, I will give out Dojo points to them:)
Spelling - This week in spelling the students will work with more words that have long and short vowel sounds. They will be responsible for pages 99-101 in their workbooks volume 1.
English - The students will use commas to separate items in a series, after introductory words and to set off names of people begin addressed. They will also proofread for missing commas or misplaced commas.
Reading - The students will learn that making judgments involves deciding whether or not a character's actions are appropriate for a situation. They will work with vocabulary and text dependent questions with the intent of understanding the authors craft and structure as they read a biography about Gloria Estefan.
Science - You may ask your child what classifying means? (Grouping) Ask them how we classified the dinosaurs in today's activity. Scientists classify animals into two groups: vertebrates and invertebrates. We will continue to work with invertebrates this week. By the end of the week they should be able to tell you the 5 animal classes (FMBAR fish, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles) and three characteristics of each class. Can they give you two examples of each class of animals?
Social Studies - This week in social studies, the students will learn about the Native American tribe from the Northeast region called the Narragansett. They will describe key events that affected the Narragansett way of life once European settlers arrived. They will choose a project to do to show their understand of the Narragansett culture by either creating a picture or doing a writing activity. A quiz is scheduled for Friday of this week over lesson 1 in Chapter 5. The Narragansett People.
Friday, October 10, 2014
News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room October 13-17
Monday, October 13- No school Columbus Day
Thursday, October 16- Book Fair
Monday-Wednesday October 27-29 Parent Teacher Conferences
Please be sure to follow the link from my e-mail and sign up for parent/ teacher conferences.
Math- This week in math there will be a test over chapter 2, Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers. The students should bring their their books home to study the pages that are still in their books. If there are pages that have not been completed, the students may use those pages as extra practice for the test. Many of the pages from the chapter are in their binders, and they should review those as well.
Spelling - This week is a review week. The students will be responsible for workbook pages 87-89.
English - The students will write abbreviations of titles, addresses, months and days. There will be an abbreviation quiz on Friday of this week. A practice sheet will go home for the students work on.
Reading- In reading this week we will dig even further in our close read of Casey at the Bat as we look at perspective.. The students will compare the perspectives of The Three Little Pigs told from the pigs point of view and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs from the Wolf's point of view. The students will write what happened in Mudville during this game from the perspective of another character in the story. They will then listen to a song called Mighty Jackie the Strike Out Queen. We will compare and contrast the song with the story.
Science - In science this week, we will begin a unit on Classifying animals. The students will classify animals as vertebrates and invertebrates. They will learn the characteristics of the 5 animal classes with backbones (vertebrates- fish, mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles FMBAR).
Social Studies - There will be a test in social studies on Thursday this week over unit 2 Land and Water of the Northeast. Pages 104-119. The students should study all the sheets from their binder. They should know:
Thursday, October 16- Book Fair
Monday-Wednesday October 27-29 Parent Teacher Conferences
Please be sure to follow the link from my e-mail and sign up for parent/ teacher conferences.
Math- This week in math there will be a test over chapter 2, Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers. The students should bring their their books home to study the pages that are still in their books. If there are pages that have not been completed, the students may use those pages as extra practice for the test. Many of the pages from the chapter are in their binders, and they should review those as well.
Spelling - This week is a review week. The students will be responsible for workbook pages 87-89.
English - The students will write abbreviations of titles, addresses, months and days. There will be an abbreviation quiz on Friday of this week. A practice sheet will go home for the students work on.
Reading- In reading this week we will dig even further in our close read of Casey at the Bat as we look at perspective.. The students will compare the perspectives of The Three Little Pigs told from the pigs point of view and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs from the Wolf's point of view. The students will write what happened in Mudville during this game from the perspective of another character in the story. They will then listen to a song called Mighty Jackie the Strike Out Queen. We will compare and contrast the song with the story.
Science - In science this week, we will begin a unit on Classifying animals. The students will classify animals as vertebrates and invertebrates. They will learn the characteristics of the 5 animal classes with backbones (vertebrates- fish, mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles FMBAR).
Social Studies - There will be a test in social studies on Thursday this week over unit 2 Land and Water of the Northeast. Pages 104-119. The students should study all the sheets from their binder. They should know:
- all vocabulary
- how Niagara Falls was formed,where it is located, and why it is so important to the Northeast (2 ways)
- what is produced by hydropower plants
- the important mountain ranges that make up part of the Appalachian Mountains
- which states do not share a border with the Atlantic Ocean
- the Finger Lakes and understand why grapes grow well there
- difference between the coast of Maine and the coast of New Jersey
- two challenges that threaten the fish population of Chesapeake Bay
- how Green Mountains and the White Mountains alike and different
- which state would you like to live in the Northeast Region-why? 2 reasons
Friday, October 3, 2014
News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room October 6-10
Wednesday, October 8 - Picture Day
Thursday, October 9 - Worms and racetracks with sheet are due
Friday, Oct. 10 - Early Dismissal 11:00
Monday, Oct. 13 No School, Columbus Day
Thursday, October 16 - Book Fair
Volunteers are needed to help out with the Fall Book Fair. If you are interested please sign up using the link below.
To sign up, go to:
Math- This week in math the students will subtract multi-digit numbers, when some digits are zeros and they will use addition to check their answers. There will be a quiz over lessons 5-7 on Tuesday of this week. They should know how to add multi-digit numbers and check using estimation, subtract multi-digit numbers with zeros and use addition to check their answers, and solve problems using PAL (problem, answer, label). A test is schedule for Wednesday, October 15 over chapter 2.
Spelling - This week the students will learn to spell homophones. They will be assigned WB pages 67-69 in volume 1. If they passed out on the pretest, they will be assigned an activity to do which is in Classroom under Spelling Enrichment.
English The students will practice writing good sentences by combining sentences that have the same subject with and. They will capitalize names of places and things along with writing abbreviations correctly. An abbreviation quiz will be given on Friday of this week.
Reading - This week in reading we will work on Close reading Close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a piece of text, and one of the cornerstones of the Common Core State Standards. We will read the poem, "Casey at the Bat". The students will read and reread this poem, dissecting it to gain understanding of the author's words. They will also compare it to other texts and and try to understand the author's perspective.
Science- There will be a test over the Introductory chapter (Getting Ready for Science) on Wednesday of this week. The students should study any notes and lesson reviews that are in their binder. They should study the main concepts and vocabulary from their text.
They should know:
all vocabulary
tools and what they are used for (pan balance, spring scale, microscope,beaker)
understand making inferences and what they need to do before making an inference
understand the steps of the scientific experiment:what they are, the order of them, and be able to identify them.
understand how to find the volume of a solid (They can use a calculator for this.)
What are you doing when you compare things?
understand variables and why they need to be controlled in an experiment
Social Studies-In social studies this week, the students will review lesson 3. They will explain how pollution from a factory gets into Chesapeake Bay, and understand why the Bay is important to the people in the Northeast region. A test is planned for Wednesday, October 15 over Chapter 4 Land and Water in the Northeast. The students should study all key concepts from the lessons. They should study the papers in their folders as well.
They should know:
all vocabulary
Thursday, October 9 - Worms and racetracks with sheet are due
Friday, Oct. 10 - Early Dismissal 11:00
Monday, Oct. 13 No School, Columbus Day
Thursday, October 16 - Book Fair
Volunteers are needed to help out with the Fall Book Fair. If you are interested please sign up using the link below.
To sign up, go to:
The students have been very excited to use their Chromebooks in the class and at home. They should remember to charge them each evening and bring them to school the next day as they would a text book. Today they have an activity in their classroom science folder. It is very interesting and you may want to have them show you what they did in class with it today.
Math- This week in math the students will subtract multi-digit numbers, when some digits are zeros and they will use addition to check their answers. There will be a quiz over lessons 5-7 on Tuesday of this week. They should know how to add multi-digit numbers and check using estimation, subtract multi-digit numbers with zeros and use addition to check their answers, and solve problems using PAL (problem, answer, label). A test is schedule for Wednesday, October 15 over chapter 2.
Spelling - This week the students will learn to spell homophones. They will be assigned WB pages 67-69 in volume 1. If they passed out on the pretest, they will be assigned an activity to do which is in Classroom under Spelling Enrichment.
English The students will practice writing good sentences by combining sentences that have the same subject with and. They will capitalize names of places and things along with writing abbreviations correctly. An abbreviation quiz will be given on Friday of this week.
Reading - This week in reading we will work on Close reading Close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a piece of text, and one of the cornerstones of the Common Core State Standards. We will read the poem, "Casey at the Bat". The students will read and reread this poem, dissecting it to gain understanding of the author's words. They will also compare it to other texts and and try to understand the author's perspective.
Science- There will be a test over the Introductory chapter (Getting Ready for Science) on Wednesday of this week. The students should study any notes and lesson reviews that are in their binder. They should study the main concepts and vocabulary from their text.
They should know:
all vocabulary
tools and what they are used for (pan balance, spring scale, microscope,beaker)
understand making inferences and what they need to do before making an inference
understand the steps of the scientific experiment:what they are, the order of them, and be able to identify them.
understand how to find the volume of a solid (They can use a calculator for this.)
What are you doing when you compare things?
understand variables and why they need to be controlled in an experiment
Social Studies-In social studies this week, the students will review lesson 3. They will explain how pollution from a factory gets into Chesapeake Bay, and understand why the Bay is important to the people in the Northeast region. A test is planned for Wednesday, October 15 over Chapter 4 Land and Water in the Northeast. The students should study all key concepts from the lessons. They should study the papers in their folders as well.
They should know:
all vocabulary
- Where Niagara Falls is, how it was formed and its importance to the area.
- What is produced by hydropower plants on the Niagara River?
- Know the Mountain Ranges that are part of the Appalachian Mountains and how they are different and how they are alike.
- What is the difference between the Maine Coast line and New Jersey Coast line? Be able to describe them.
- Which is the largest Finger Lake?
- How is this lake important to the grapes that are grown around it?
- Know the resources of the Northeast region and where they came from.
- What are some of the problems that challenge Chesapeake Bay and how have they tried to solve them.
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