Weekly Update 1.31.17
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On January 31, 2017
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will come home today with work samples. Please review and return as needed.
- Report cards will come home THIS Friday, along with updated MClass benchmark scores.
- Students took their 1st Multiplication Sundae quiz today on the 1’s facts. These are timed on a visible stopwatch for student goals only, not countdown as a “it has to be done by this time” manner. Students should be able to answer the 16 questions in under 2 minutes to be considered “fluent”. Students will record their time on the back of their quiz, and their pieces earned on the sundae picture that is housed inside a plastic sheet in their agenda. You can expect a quiz every Tues and Thurs with makeups on Fri for those who do not pass. This Thursday we will test on 2’s- please prepare as needed! word- sprinkles
- TOMORROW- students are encouraged to dress up like the person they have been researching these past few weeks. We will do a Famous Person TeaParty for students only where they mix and mingle in character and sign each others Facebook Walls:) Check out Twitter and your Child’s Google Drive for more!
This week in Literacy:
Students are continuing a fiction unit with a story called “Storm in the Night”. We are able to make lots of connections with our last story, and focusing again on characters, theme, and even figurative language.
Spelling RETESTS on the “100 Words You Need to Know” continue this Friday. This quiz is for GROUP SEVEN (AGAIN) words ONLY! Only students who missed words the first AND second time around need to prepare to retest. If you are not sure, check your child’s agenda for circled words. LOTS of friends struggled with this lost, so please ensure your child has studied and is prepared for Friday!
This week in Math:
Students are really going deep into arrays and applying our multiplication knowledge to solve rectilinear area and missing sides in perimeter. This is a concept that students enjoy but can get easily confused with if they rush or mix up concepts. Area is the space INSIDE something and we teach it 2 ways. A basic quadrilateral is solved by multiplying Length X Width to get Area. Students will also use unit squares to count area, particularly for odd-shaped polygons. Students will even get really crazy with measuring rectilinear area, where they have to do 2 and 3 step problems to solve. Perimeter is the measurement of the sides AROUND a figure. This is pretty easy with rectangles, but can get hard with irregular figures. Please see tutorials and practice with games as needed. Students will bring home a cheat sheet today to help!
Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus, arrays, repeated addition, commutative property (flip flop rule), number line, product, distributive (break apart method), associative property, graphs, pictographs, bar graphs
A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year can be found here
This quarter in Social Studies: Understand the earth’s patterns by using the 5 themes of geography: (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions). This week, students will work in teams of 4 to create their own island, illustrating their knowledge of the 5 themes as they think through what this place would really be like.
3.G.1.1 Find absolute and relative locations of places within the local community and region.
3.G.1.2 Compare the human and physical characteristics of places.
3.G.1.3 Exemplify how people adapt to, change and protect the environment to meet their needs.
3.G.1.4 Explain how the movement of goods, people and ideas impact the community.
3.G.1.5 Summarize the elements (cultural, demographic, economic and geographic) that define regions (community, state, nation and world).
