Week of January 15 - 19, 2018

Upcoming events:
1/15 - No School MLK Day
1/17 - Report Cards go home

Resources this week:
Cox:
Wednesday - Music
Friday - Art

ELA:  
Please check out Mrs. Townsend's dojo site for ELA information and activities.

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:

   

                              

 

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).
Make rectangles with different areas and practice solving for area of shapes.
Please visit the following link for homework help:
http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_math

Science:

The students will continue to 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.