Ack News 10/16

ACK NEWS
 Week of October 16

HOMEWORK

Monday-Thursday -Math sheet -Reading Response -Lunar Log -Read 20 minutes -Words Their Way Tuesday--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

MATH

This week we will be working on rounding decimals. I will post a picture of their notes on this blog so you understand our strategy. 1. underline place value 2. box in number and number to right. 3. decide if to round up or down This is soooo much better than underlining, then putting an arrow...but they exact same concept just easier to follow. We will also be adding and subtracting with decimals which is what they have been working on for morning work this past week.  If they use their understanding of place value, they will run through this skill.

READING, WRITING, and WORDS THEIR WAY

READING: This week, we will continue to work on quoting accurately from a text to support a claim.  In order to answer comprehensive questions they are being asked to: ​introduce their quote (where did you find this information in the text to support your claim-- for example: In paragraph 2 it says... use a comma before a direct quotation is used use quotation marks around phrases that are copied word for word from a source **For reading homework, students will continue to read 20 minutes each night and write a reading response on the sheet provided.  This will be due each day at the start of class. WRITING: Last week, students went back to all of their prior writing pieces and selected one to take through the writing process.  This week, we will be working on developing and formatting their stories a bit better.  To do this we will be using two techniques-- developing a story map, and developing a timeline of important events. WORDS THEIR WAY: Students will receive their new sort/pattern for the week.  As always, this is due on Friday.

SOCIAL STUDIES

This week, we will be reading about Columbus' voyage through the eyes of his crew members-- we have read about it from Columbus' point of view and the Taino Native American's point of view so this will be a new perspective to analyze. We will also be doing some more map reading activities throughout the week.

SCIENCE

Students have set up their Science Notebooks. We have begun to review the movement of the Earth and Moon. Students will be learning about rotation and revolution, along with how they cause the seasons and day and night. The students are expected to look at the moon each night and draw what they see on their Lunar log. This log is due at the end of the month.

REMINDERS

-Progress Reports go home Thursday Flue shot papers -Pizza Night paper and money