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
