November 28

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It's hard to believe it is almost December!

Our field trip to Fort Menendez is tomorrow, Monday, November 28. Please bring a sack lunch, wear your BSE t-shirt, and dress for the weather! We will be outside the entire time we are there. 

Wednesday is early release at 1:30.

We will begin our mid-year testing on Tuesday. This week, we will have our ELA mid-year scrimmage on Tuesday and Wednesday. Each day will be 75 minutes. This will be similar to the baseline test taken at the beginning of the year. The math mid-year scrimmage will be next Monday and Tuesday.

Resources this week:

Cox:

Tuesday: art

Friday: music

Kluge:

Tuesday: art

Wednesday: music

Friday: pe

ELA: There will be no spelling this week. We are beginning a new module of study this week! In this module, students will use literacy skills to become experts—people who use reading, writing, listening, and speaking to build and share deep knowledge about the topic of FROGS! Our first text is Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle.

     

As we explore this new text and topic this week, we will read closely and focus on main idea, supporting details, and vocabulary. Not only will we look at details in the text which support the main idea, we will look at illustrations and think about key details they have that help us understand the main idea. In our vocabulary work, we will look at specific words and phrases and determine why we think the author chose them for this text. Although this text is written in a narrative format, it is filled with great information that will help students become experts on the topic of frogs.

Math:

This week in math the students will continue counting by sixes and sevens, composing up to and then over the next ten.  For example, students might count 6, 12, 18, and then mentally add 18 + 2 + 4 to make 24.  This skip-counting method utilizes make ten strategies. Students will begin to understand that multiples of 6 can be thought of as (5 + 1) x n to make 5 and 1 more groups, or 6 groups of n.   Multiples of 7 can be thought of as (5 + 2) x n to make 5 and 2 more groups, or 7 groups of n.  The students will continue using the distributive property as a strategy to multiply and divide and interpret the unknown in multiplication and dividison to model and solve problems using units of 6 and 7.  The students will begin to understand the function of parentheses and apply to solving mathematical problems. 

                                                    

Things to practice and review at home:

Practice adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.

Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes.

Continue practicing multiplication facts 2 to 10

Continue practicing division facts

November 14

We hope you all had a super three day weekend! We will not have a blog post next week due to Thanksgiving break.

Wednesday is an early release day.

All science fair projects are due Tuesday. Our BSE Math and Science Night is this Thursday, November 17 from 6:00 - 7:30.

Next week, we will only have school on Monday, November 21 and Tuesday, November 22. School will resume the following Monday.

Resources this week:
Cox:
Tuesday: pe
Wednesday: music
Thursday: art
Kluge:
Monday: music
Wednesday: pe
Thursday: art

ELA: The week of Thanksgiving, there will be no spelling or RAH log. During the holidays, please try to work on your assigned online reading program a few times... iReady reading or Achieve3000.

We will work with our final text in our module this week, My Librarian is a Camel. This book is written by a woman who contacted people all over the world to find out how they access books in challenging physical environments. We will read about mobile libraries on boats, camels, wagons, buses, and more.

We will look closely at several countries: Peru, Kenya, Finland, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Canada, and Mongolia. We will work in groups and independently, to closely read and research the countries. This will prepare us for our end-of-unit assessment in which we will independently read about another country to do the following activities. 

We will: 

• note words we are unfamiliar with
• determine the "gist" of the text excerpts
• think about the physical features that make it difficult to access books
• find out how people overcome these difficulties
• explore text features such as, illustrations, photographs, and maps of the countries
• answer text-dependent questions 

MATH: This week in math we will begin our module 3 lessons revisiting the commutative property of multiplication introduced in module 1.  The students will recognize that if they know 3x6=18, then they also know 6x3=18.  Students will apply the commutative property with the n + 1 strategy to solve unknown facts. For example students will relate 5x8 and 8x5, and then add one more group of 8(n) to solve 6x8 and 8x6.  The students will be using a letter to represent the unknown in various positions within multiplication and division problems.                                          

   Example problem:  Twenty –four people line up to use the canoes at the park.  Three people are assigned to each canoe.   How many canoes are used? 

Homework:

Study for end of module 2 assessment (using study guide provided last week)

Module 3 Lesson 2

Module 3 Lesson 3

Module 3 Lesson 4

2 i-Ready lessons

Things to practice at home:

Use place value understanding and vertical number line to round numbers to nearest 10 or 100. 

Practice adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.

Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes.

Continue practicing multiplication facts 2 to 10

Please check out our DCPS site for homework help and strategies to help with solving homework problems.  

SCIENCE: This week in Science we will be learning about ways that energy changes form.  The students will learn about energy causing motion and change through examining the cause and effect relationships and sequence of events.  

November 7

Bartram Springs Elementary will be participating in a school-wide mock election on Tuesday, November 8th. We will have a special election room where students will be able to vote privately in a voting booth and then cast their ballots in a ballot box.

BSE FLAG RAISING!

Don't forget to wear your red, white, and blue this Thursday for our flag raising in honor of Veteran's Day. It will be at 8:45 and all parents and community members are invited.

BSE PTA presents Movie on the Lawn
Thursday, Nov. 10th Gates open at 6:00 p.m. This is a FREE event!
*Movie begins at 6:30pm
*Bring chairs or blankets & bug spray
***PRE-ORDER only***
Papa Johns Whole Pizzas OR Chick Fil A Box MEALS

No school on Friday, November 11.

The BSE Student Council is sponsoring a food drive for the Salvation Army. Collection boxes will be around the school for donations. Our class representatives shared this with our classes on Friday.

Resources this week:
Cox:
Monday: pe
Tuesday: art
Thursday: music
Kluge:
Tuesday: art
Thursday: media and pe  Please return all library books by Wednesday!

ELA: I hope you all enjoyed the letters your children wrote to you about their reading "glows and grows". Thank you for sending them back. They will bring them home at the end of the year. 

The RAH log will be due this Thursday because of no school on Friday. Also, we will have the spelling test on Thursday.

Last week we worked for a few day exploring and learning a lot about maps. We located all of the countries we have read about and we also studied physical maps, landforms, and water features. Below are photos from the activities. 

We continue to learn about different librarians around the world in the third unit of module 1. We will read a narrative informational text, Waiting for the Biblioburro. This book was inspired by the heroic efforts of real-life librarian Luis Soriano, who established a mobile library that journeys over mountains and through valleys to bring literacy and culture to rural Colombia. Click on the book cover to listen to the book!

After reading Waiting for the Bibioburro, students will work in groups to compare and contrast the book with another book we have read in this module. The groups will be creating a graphic organizer to share with the class. They will compare characters, settings, challenges of accessing books, physical land features, etc. 

MATH: 

Our end of module test will be next week on Tuesday Nov. 15th.

The following link is for math homework help. We are currently working on module 2.

http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_math

This week in math the students will decompose to subtract three-digit measurements with a zero in the tens or ones place.  They will solve measurement word problems drawing tape diagrams.  The students will round to estimate the sums and differences of measurements and then solve problems determining the reasonableness of their solutions.  The students will use the standard algorithm for subtraction to solve two and three digit metric measurements and intervals of minutes within 1 hour problems.

Example Problem and Answer Two and Three Digit Measurement and Subtraction-Using Place Value Chart

Sabrina had 726 milliliters of water when she started her hiking trip. She had 182 milliliters of water after her hiking trip. How many milliliters of water did Sabrina drink?

Partner activity rounding to nearest 10 mL and 100 mL to determine solution to word problem:

Homework:

Lesson 18 (End of Module Study Guide)
Lesson 19

Lesson 21

2 i-Ready lessons

Things to practice at home:

Practice using analog clocks to determine elapsed time of various activities.

Continue practicing multiplication facts 2 to 10

Discuss the liquid volume of milk, juice, and water containers found at home.

Talk about how much certain objects weigh and differences in total weight of specific things at home.

Use addition and subtraction strategies to solve measurement word problems.

SCIENCE:  

We will continue our discussion of energy and the different forms or energy.  Students will identify forms of energy and understand that energy can cause motion or create change.