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.
