News From Mrs. Cavoto's Room Sept. 28- Oct. 2

Dates to Remember:

Tuesday, Sept. 29- Final Magazine turn in day


Math- This week the students will  continue to review the strategies for multiplication of their basic facts.    The students will focus on factors, multiples, and products.   They will understand the associative property as they work through their Problem Strings.  There is a checkpoint quiz on Friday of this week.  I will send home their pretest for them to review the skills. They should review their Home Connections  book pages 1-12 and  Student Book pages 1-23.  I will also send a review of skills page home for them to practice with on Thursday.

Spelling -  This week the students will work with words that have the sounds of u.  They will be responsible for workbook pages 52-54.  There will be a test on Friday.

English- We will continue to work with writing different kinds of sentences.  The students will review capitalization of names of people, animals, places and things.  They will capitalize and punctuate abbreviations for titles, addresses, months and days.  There will be a quiz over Abbreviations on Friday.  The students should know how to abbreviate the months and the days of the week correctly using capital letters and periods.  A practice sheet will go home to help them study.

Reading- The students will continue to Close Read the story Happy Birthday, Dr. King.  They will practice answering text-dependent questions and complete a vocabulary study for the story. The students will understand how the author uses  cause-effect relationships to help them understand the text.

Social Studies- This week the students will understand the importance of Chesapeake Bay to the Northeast and some of the challenges they are facing.  We will have a test next Tuesday, Oct. 6, over chapter 4 Unit 2 The Northeast Land and Resources.

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 hydro power 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

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Sept. 21-25

Dates to Remember:

Tuesday, Sept. 22- Zoo Field Trip- Dress for the weather. Bring a disposable sack lunch with your name on it.  

Magazine turn in Day 1.

Thursday, Sept. 24- SIP Day - 11:35 dismissal. 

Spelling - This week in spelling the students will work with words that have the  Short i and short o sounds and words with long  i and long o sounds. They will be assigned packet pages 37-39. There will be a test on Friday.

Math-This week the students will use area models to illustrate the distributive property.  We will continue to review multiplication strategies to help them demonstrate an understanding of multiplication.    The students may need help in understanding these strategies and it may seem as though they are more difficult than just memorizing their facts, however, we believe that these strategies will help them gain a better sense for numbers, and as they work with more difficult equations, these strategies we hope this will help them figure them out quickly with more efficiency. Please continue to help your child know their basic multiplication and division facts by studying them each night. Don't forget they can practice them in the Math Classroom on their Chromebooks.

English- This week the students will work with different kinds of sentences. They will write  sentences  using correct end marks, capitalization, and recognize run on sentences. They will practice using a variety of statements, commands, questions, and exclamations to make their writing more interesting.

Reading- The Courage theme was launched this week.  We will continue our discussions about courage and  Martin Luther King, Jr. The students will discuss- Can one person make a difference?  They will work on their speaking and listening skills as they present information to the class about a time their partner was courageous.

Social Studies The students will continue their gallery walk as they find facts and match it to the places of interest in the Northeast.   We will also focus on the products and resources of the Northeast this week.  They will learn about the vineyards in New York and cranberry bogs of Massachusetts, as well as other resources such as sap that comes from all the sugar maple trees in Vermont and the mineral resources that come from the quarries in New Hampshire.

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Sept. 14-18

Important Dates:

Monday, Sept. 14 - Magazine Kick Off

Math-The students will investigate factors and factor pairs for numbers between 1 and 100. They will multiply using the commutative property.They will determine whether a whole number between 1-100 is a prime or composite number.  The students will review the strategies they used to solve basic multiplication facts.  Please help your child review their multiplication facts.  This will make it easier for them as we progress through the skills and concepts they need to know.  They can refer to their Math Classroom for the speed game to practice their facts.

Spelling:  This week in spelling the students will be working with words that have the long and short sound of a and e.  They will be responsible for completing workbook pages 17-19 throughout the week.  There will be a test on Friday.  If the students pass the pretest on Monday with a 95% or better, they will be given an alternate set of words to study and an activity sheet which will have the new activities they will do instead of the workbook pages.  They will then be tested on their new words on Friday.

Language Arts:  This week the students will compare and contrast two texts: the song Mighty Jackie the Homerun Queen and the poem Casey at the Bat.  They will also understand text dependent questions and work with a partner to practice writing their own text dependent questions.

Writing: The students will write a paragraph focusing on the Main idea stated in a topic sentence and a closing which is stated in a different way at the end of the paragraph.  They will include details in the paragraph which talk about the main idea.  Indenting the paragraph, using capital letters, end marks and writing complete sentences will also be assessed.

Social Studies- The students will share their Niagara Falls research.  They will identify three mountain ranges in the Northeastern part of the Appalachian Mountains, and they will understand the different features of those ranges.

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Sept. 7-11

It was so nice meeting many of you at Curriculum Night. Remember if you have any questions feel free to send me an 

e-mail. 

Dates to Remember:
Mon. Sept. 7- No school Veteran's Day
Wed. & Thurs. Sept. 8 & 9 MAP testing
Fri. Sept. 11 Zoo permission slips due

Here is the plan for the week:

Math:  This week the students will continue to investigate the relationship between multiplication and division using open number lines, ratio tables and the area model.  

Spelling: The list this week will be another review of commonly misspelled words.  There will be  a test on Friday.  Each night they will have an activity to do for that day.   This will be done in their spelling journal.  

Writing: We began paragraph writing last week. The students were picking topics and brainstorming ideas and details that go with the topics.  This week they will understand that they have to first choose the main topic of a paragraph and then those details become the body of their paragraph.   They will then practice writing paragraphs.  They will organize their details and use capital letters and end marks appropriately. 

Reading: We will continue our Close Read with Casey at the Bat.  The students will finish writing summaries of the poem and share them with the clase.  They will look closer at the vocabulary in the passage and discuss how to use context clues to help determine the meaning of some words. They will also understand perspective and point of view.  How does the story change meaning based on the person who is telling the story?

Social Studies- We will have a Northeast map quiz on Tuesday of this week.  The students will have to write the names of the states and bodies of water of the Northeast in the correct spot on the map. Spelling does not count, but I have to be able to figure out the name of the state they have written on the line or it will be wrong.  If they can place the capital next to the state it matches, they can earn an extra point on their quiz. They have to have at least 4 capitals to get any credit.   They do not need to know capitals though. It is for those students who want the challenge.  

This week the students will research information on Niagara Falls. What is it? What does it look like?  Where is it located? How and when was it formed?  How does it help the people who live around it?  What are some interesting facts?  The students will share their information with the class.