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Week of January 2
Week of January 2
HOMEWORK
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| Monday-Thursday -Math sheet -Reading Response -Read 20 minutes -Words Their Way Monday--word sort. Have your child sort their words and teach someone at home their pattern Tuesday--speed sort. Time your child and see how fast they can correctly sort their words. See if they can beat their time. Wednesday--blind sort. Give your child their headings and read the words aloud individually so your child cannot see the word. They must tell you the appropriate heading it goes under. Thursday-- choice! I have sent home a packet of all the homework guidelines. On the last page, there is a list of different choice options for a Thursday activity. FRIDAY THIS HOMEWORK IS DUE. Someone at home must sign off on the homework sheet that your child completed an activity each night. |
WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
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MATH
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| Math this week continues to practice estimating and multiplying decimals. We then jump into using multiplication to express equivalent measurements. I will send a math Newsletter home that will give information about measurement conversions with multiplication tomorrow. Some Videos that will help this week: Lesson 12: https://youtu.be/3M5nHME_nzg Lesson 13: https://youtu.be/vDzOOLjH8h4 Lesson 14:https://youtu.be/LAIwQ7YMsXI |
READING, WRITING, and WORDS THEIR WAY
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READING:
This week, students will be given their checklist and overview of our new unit--fiction! Here are the skills we will be learning:
Students will also work to finish up their hurricane website performance task from unit 1.
Finally, as always, their homework will be to read a minimum of 20 minutes each night and complete a reading response.
WRITING:
We are also moving out of narrative writing and moving into opinion/argument writing! To start this unit this week, students will complete an on demand writing prompt of an opinion topic. This will give us a starting point to see where they are at.
WORDS THEIR WAY:
Students will be given their Words Their Way sort this week--even though it is a short week. Next Monday, I will be reassessing the kids and regrouping them based on their progress, so in the weeks to come (hopefully!!), you may be seeing some more challenging word sorts coming home!
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SOCIAL STUDIES
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Continuing with our civics/government unit, we will be looking into what life might be like in a state of nature (no rules/laws/government) and discussing what rights we believe all people should have.
**We will also be starting our preliminary rounds for the National Geographic Geography Bee! All students will participate in these rounds in order to determine each class' top 2 (or 3) winners. The class winners will then participate in our school bee in a couple weeks to determine our 1 school winner. This winner will then take an online test through Nat Geo to see if they qualify to participate in the NH State Bee at Keene State College. For those students who want to continue to practice, I have posted links to practice sites/activities on their Google Classroom account they know how to access this).
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SCIENCE
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| This week we continued our unit about the importance of Earth’s fresh water. Our lesson was called, “Can we make it rain?” We learned about the processes of evaporation and condensation, and the role they play in replenishing our fresh water. You can encourage your child’s curiosity at home! Invite your child to observe what happens when the hot water is turned on for a shower or bath. After 5 minutes or so, what happens? You should both be able to notice not only how windows and mirrors fog up, but also the way that it feels to breathe the air. Some of the hot water is evaporating and filling the room with water vapor—this is what you’re feeling as you breathe in. As the water vapor comes in contact with the cool surface of a mirror or window, it condenses back to liquid water again, which is why these appear foggy. You can observe that the "fogginess" is actually tiny droplets of water. |
REMINDERS
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Friday- Yankee Swap and finish Star Wars Movie
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