We are almost finished with our baseline assessments! A few students need to complete i-Ready and Achieve baselines.
Resources this week:
Cox:
Tuesday: Music
Wednesday: PE
Thursday: PE
Kluge:
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: Art
Friday: PE
ELA: Remember to complete your R.A.H. log throughout the week and have a parent sign Thursday night. They are collected on Friday and new ones are passed out the same day. Also, study your spelling words for the quiz on Friday. The Word Work tab above has several suggestions for spelling activities.
This we will read Nasreen's Secret School, the story of a young girl in Afghanistan, who faces many obstacles to be able to go to school and learn. We will read the text closely and use the same organizational tools we used with Rain School to determine the gist and lesson of the story. We are becoming familiar with the term, gist.
The gist is the main idea, what the page, section, chapter, or book is about. The gist does not include many details, but at the same time can be supported with details.
When we read closely, we read a text numerous times, each time with a different purpose or focus. One focus we have is to make note of words that are unfamiliar in meaning to us as we read. We then go back in the text and try to use context clues to determine the meaning of the new word.
Example: Poor Nasreen sat at home all day because girls are forbidden to attend school. Because the author writes "poor Nasreen" and tells us she is staying at home, we can guess that forbidden means not allowed. We can use the "plug it in" strategy and see if "not allowed" makes sense and it does. Poor Nasreen sat at home all day because girls are not allowed to attend school.
We will also use the S-I-W-B-S graphic organizer to help us focus on the important details in the story as we read closely.
Somebody (the main character)...
in (setting)...
wanted (motivation)...
but (problem)...
so (resolution)...
When reading at home this week, think about the gist, look for unfamiliar words, and see if you can fill in a S-I-W-B-S chart about your book.
MATH: This
week in math students will continue to build fluency with math facts using the
array model and familiar skip counting strategies. We will begin to manipulate arrays to study
the commutative property. We will continue distinguishing rows from columns and
noticing that the meaning of the factors changes depending on the orientation
of the array. Students will be writing
the 2 different multiplication sentences to interpret the same array (different
orientation).
For
example:
The
students will find related multiplication facts by adding and subtracting equal
groups in array models.
7 threes = 5 threes + 2 threes
7 x 3 = 5 x 3 +
2 x 3
21 =
15 + 6
Things to practice at home (math):
Interpret products of whole
numbers, e.g., interpret 5 x 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7
objects each. Apply properties of operations
as strategies to multiply and divide.
Examples: If 6 x 4 = 24 is known, then 4 x 6 = 24 is also known.
(Commutative property of multiplication)
Math Homework:
Lesson
7
Lesson
8
Lesson
9
Practice
2, 3, 4, 5 math facts at home
SCIENCE: This week in Science we will continue our discussion on the “Scientific Method” and how scientists raise questions about the natural world.
