Weekly Update 3.14.17

By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 13, 2017

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Be on the Lookout for…

• Tuesday Folders will come home today.
• 3rd quarter interim reports came home Friday, March 3rd. Please sign and return ASAP!
• March Madness is here! Basketball fan or not, filling out a bracket makes this month a whole lot more exciting! Students will practice basic addition daily, but also discuss probability and as we navigate each round of the NCAA tournament. The top 3 winners from each class will be invited to attend the “Lunch of Champions” in April! Please make sure completed brackets are turned in Wednesday morning so we can copy them prior to tipoff of Thursdays games. word-basketball
• Students have taken their 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, 6’s, 7’s 10’s, and 11’s  Multiplication Sundae quizzes. Thursday will be 8’s again since so many friends struggled with those. 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 usually Tues and Thurs with makeups on Fri for those who do not pass.

This week in Literacy:

Students are finishing nonfiction with the fascinating and exciting text, Living Through a Natural Disaster. It features true stories of Cyclone Tracy, Huang He River flooding, and El Nino. Personal accounts, amazing photos, diagrams, and complex text make this been really “eye” opening 🙂 They are also turning their Immigration country research into travel brochure and Google Slide with organized and detailed facts. You are going to be amazed what your child can do!

Spelling retests will continue Friday.

This week in Math:

Students are continuing a lengthy, but exciting Fractions unit. Lots of vocab is important in understanding this concept. Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes

Current vocab: numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model

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, area, perimeter, rectilinear area, 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: We finish our Changes unit this week and will begin an Immigration Unit to reach SS objectives in the following areas.

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