Week of September 21

Please vote for 

your favorite book!   

Thank you for joining us last week for Open House! If you would like us to email you the Power Point for review, please let us know!

Individual school pictures are this Friday, September 25!!!

Resources this week:  Wednesday is EARLY RELEASE!
Mrs. Cox -
Monday: ART
Thursday: MUSIC
Friday: PE
Mrs. Kluge -
Tuesday: ART
Friday: MUSIC

The BSE Scholastic MONSTER Book Fair will be the week of September 28. On Friday, a catalog came home with some of the books that will be for sale. We will let you know which days we will visit as a class as soon as we sign up. Students can bring money any day. We will allow them to go to the book fair every day.

ELA: 
Students completed the mid-module reading assessment on Friday. I was quite proud of how hard they worked and were very familiar with the tasks! This week, we begin unit 2 with a great book, Thank You, Mr. Falker. This text is more complex than our previous books. We will work through the close reading cycle using familiar routines.

• Capturing the gist
• Identifying unfamiliar words
• Somebody - in - wanted - but - so...
• Answering text-dependent questions
• Focusing on determining meaning of vocabulary from the text

When we read new text, one of the things we do is write down words that are unfamiliar to us in meaning. This is something students can do at home when they are reading independently. If they write the word and page number, you can talk about what they think the word means based on the clues in the text when they finish.

At school, after we identify an unfamiliar word, we use 2 strategies:

1. Reread the sentence or paragraph the word is in and think about the possible meaning using text clues.

2. Plug - it - in strategy: Substitute another word that you came up with based on clues in the actual sentence. 

MATH:

This week in math we will focus on multiplication and division using units of 4.  The students will skip count objects in models to build fluency with multiplication facts using units of 4.  Relate arrays to tape diagrams to model the commutative property of multiplication.  Use the distributive property as a strategy to find related multiplication facts and model the relationship between multiplication and division.

For Example:

This model above shows how the part and whole are related through multiplication and division. We could show that if we had 15 stickers and we divided them evenly among 3 people, each person would get 5 stickers. 

Example of distributive property:

Math Practice at Home:

** Mid-Module Assessment Tuesday – Please review study guide sent home on Friday.

Continue practicing math facts 2-5

Write/solve multiplication and division word problems

Math Homework:

Review study guide

Lesson 14

Lesson 15

Lesson 16

SCIENCE:
This week in science we will continue learning about tools scientists use during explorations.

Here is a math video to assist with Wednesday Night's Math Homework Module 1 Lesson 15:

Thursday Night Video: Module 1 Lesson 16: