Week of November 3rd

FYI: I found out on Friday after school that we will have an additional student beginning Monday. Our class size is still 27 as we also had a student move.

CLUB TCB:  Don't forget Club TCB is Friday for all those attending. 

*Homework this weekend-
There is math homework this weekend. It should be highlighted in planners. Students should be reading each day in their book for their book project.
November Book Project: It is due December 1st.

There are 4 choices for this month's project. 

 Students received the paper for this last week and we went over each option.

MATH:   We have been reviewing all Place Value concepts preparing for Tuesday's test. There are 5 standards on this test- I think I said four previously. On each test I will write the grade next to each standard. There are three standards where a '3' is the highest score and two standards where '4' is the highest  score. Our next unit is Multiplying and Dividing Fractions.

 
LANGUAGE ARTS 
We finished reading Wonder as a class and discussed theme and plot. We wrote our information on a graphic organizer to keep in there Daily 3 binders as a reference. We will discuss characterization, summary, and retelling next week in reference to this book. I went over compare and contrast papers with students sharing examples of what I am looking for for each standard and how students can improve when writing their next compare/contrast pieces. We discussed the purpose of captions, practiced writing captions as a class, and then each student chose a couple of pictures and wrote their own. I am making this into an interactive flippable book. We continued our work on vocabulary in context and reading in read to self books.

SCIENCE Simple machines has been our topic this week. Simple machines make work easier by changing the distance and/or direction of the force. Students participated in investigations, interactive websites, and watched a Bill Nye video in order to learn about this concept.

 

Spelling: We took the skill and proofreading tests Friday. This will come home Monday. Students typically have a lesson, homework page (which often gets completed in class)

Grammar: we have been working on nouns, coordinating and correlative conjunctions, and interjections.