January 16

BSE PTA Rebounderz Night is this Thursday, January 19th! It will be from 5pm - 8pm. You can order tickets on line. Click the photo to order:

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

ELA: There will be no RAH log or spelling test this week. Instead, students will read an informational book they chose from our classroom on Friday and complete a sheet focused on text features in the book. The book and the sheet came home on Friday.

We will continue our study of different types of frogs, their different habitats and the adaptations they have which enable them to survive in those habitats. We will look closely at text features and determine why the author used them to help the reader understand the topic. Text features are very important in informational text as they support the reader in learning about more complex content. The pages below from our current text show headings, bold words, close-up photographs, and detailed captions explaining the photographs.

Important vocabulary for this week:

habitat   dweller   amplify   gaps   canopies   

hatch   transparent   rain forest   blend

These words are excellent ways to start conversation at home about what we are reading about in class this week!

MATH: This week in math the students will analyze different rectangles and reason about their area.  They will find the area of a rectangle by multiplying the side lengths.  The students will apply the distributive property as a strategy to find the total area of a large rectangle by adding two products. They will solve problems to find the possible side lengths of rectangles with areas of 24, 36, 48, or 72 square units using the associative property.

Example Problem:

Homework:

Module 4 Lesson 8

Module 4 Lesson 9

Module 4 Lesson 10

Things to practice and review at home:

Explore number patterns:  For example: 47, 55, 63, …  what is the 5^th number in the pattern?

Developing fluency in skip counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

Continue practicing adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.

Practice multiplication facts 2 to 10 and division facts (We will be testing our facts weekly.)

Practice solving two step word word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).

SCIENCE: The students will learn about different telescopes used by scientists to help in observing objects in the sky.  They will learn that the number of stars that can be seen through telescopes is dramatically greater that those seen by the unaided eye.  The students will learn about the Keck telescope one of the world’s largest land telescopes.