Week of February 17, 2020

Upcoming events:
2/18 - SAC meeting 6:00 pm Media Center
2/18 - Tree Hill Field Trip Form goes home
2/19 - All Pro Dads 7:45 am Media Center
2/24 - Class Pictures
2/24 - 2/28 - Scholastic Book Fair
2/25 - End of Module 5 Test
2/27 - Book Fair Parent Night 3-6 pm

Resources this week:
2/19 - Music/P.E.

Math:
This week in math the students will conclude their module 5 studies.  The students will decompose whole number fractions greater than one using whole number equivalence with various models.  They will explain equivalence by manipulating units and reasoning about their size.  The students will compare fractions with the same numerator pictorially and by using the greater than, less than, or equal to symbols and use a model to reason about their size. 

Example of comparing fractions pictorially:

Things to do at home:
Continue to review multiplication and division math facts
Practice partitioning items into equal parts
Practice drawing simple two-dimensional rectangular shapes and calculating the area using multiplication
Continue to practice telling time and solving elapsed problems ("How many minutes have passed since you started homework?")
Use knowledge of place value to round 2, 3, 4 digit numbers to nearest 10's and 100's
Solve two-step word problems using the four operations (multiplication, division, subtraction, and addition)
Helpful math videos:

Science:

This week in science the students will investigate and explain the benefits of using telescopes to see stars.  

Keck Telescope - Hawaii

Week of February 10, 2020

Upcoming events:
2/17 - President's Day - No School
2/18 - SAC Meeting Media Center 6 pm
2/19 - All Pro Dad's Media Center 7:45 am

Resources this week:
2/10 - P.E.
2/13 - Media/Art

Math:
This week in math the students will be able to recognize and show that equivalent fractions refer to the same point on the number line.  They will generate simple equivalent fractions by using visual models and the number line.  The students will express whole numbers as fractions and recognize equivalence with different units.  They will express whole number fractions on the number line when the unit interval is 1.

Example word problem naming whole numbers as fractions on a number line:

Things to practice at home:
Practice multiplication facts 2-10
Solve time word problems and elapsed time word problems
Use knowledge of place value to round numbers to nearest 10's and 100's
Solve 2 step word problems using the four operations (multiplication, division, subtraction, and addition).
Continue partitioning wholes into various fractional units
Add and subtract numbers within 1000
Helpful math videos:

Science:
This week in science the students will continue to learn about stars and discuss the sun as a star.  The students will identify what stars use to make energy and discuss why we are unable to see the sun at night like all other stars.

Week of February 3, 2020

Upcoming events:
2/7 - PTA Dance
Resources this week:
2/3 - Music
2/5 - Art
2/6 - Music

Math:
This week in math the students will place whole number fractions and unit fraction between whole numbers on a number line.  They will continue placing various fractions on the number line and compare fractions and whole numbers on the number line by reasoning about their distance from 0.  The students will begin to recognize that distance and position on the number line help them compare fractions and recognize and show that equivalent fractions have the same size, though not necessarily the same shape.
Example of word problem comparing fractions on the number line:

Things to practice at home:
Practice solving 2 step word problems using the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).
Tell time to nearest minute and 5 minutes and solve elapsed time word problems.
Practice multiplication facts 2-12
Use place value knowledge to round number to nearest 10's and 100's.
Add and subtract numbers within 1000
Practice dividing objects into equal parts and label the parts
Use number lines to partition in various parts and label
Helpful math videos:

Science:

This week in science the students will begin discuss ways scientists classify stars and discuss differences in stars.

Week of January 27, 2020

Upcoming events:
1/27 - Literacy Week begins at BSE
1/27 - Character Mash Up (dress as a mash up of two favorite book characters)
1/28 - 100th Day of Reading (dress like you are 100 yrs old)
1/29 - Shelfie Selfie and Flashlight Reading 
1/30 - Going Old School (wear black and white to represent nonfiction text)
1/31 - Toy Story Play and Reading Celebration
1/29 - Early Dismissal at 1:15 pm

Resources this week:
1/28 - Art
1/31 - P.E.

Math:
This week in math the students will compare unit fractions by reasoning about their size using models.  They will compare unit fractions with different sized models representing the whole.  The students will begin to place unit fractions on a number line with endpoints of 0 and 1.  They will place whole number fractions and unit fractions between whole numbers on the number line.

Things to practice at home:
Continue learning multiplication facts 2-10
Use place value knowledge to round 2, 3, and 4 digits numbers to nearest 10's and 100's.
Solve 2 step word problems using the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
Partition the whole into various parts; partition sets of objects
Add and subtract 3 and 4 digits numbers with and without regrouping
Tell and write time to nearest 5 minutes and 1 minute and solve elapsed time problems.
Solve area word problems using the formula for area: (L x W)
Helpful math videos:

Science:
This week in science we will prepare for our assessment on "Energy".

Week of January 20, 2020

Upcoming events:
1/20 - MLK Day No School
1/27 - Literacy Week celebrations begin at BSE
1/31 - 2nd 9 weeks Reading Celebration 6 pm
Resources this week:
1/22 - Music
1/23 - P.E.

Math:
This week in math the students will build non-unit fractions less than one whole from unit fractions.  They will identify and represent shaded and non-shaded parts of one whole as fractions.  The students will represent parts of one whole as fractions with number bonds and build and write fractions greater than one whole using unit fractions.  They will begin to compare unit fractions by reasoning about their size using models.
Examples of partitioning number lines and  a shape and using number bonds to represent fractional parts of a whole.

Things to practice at home:
Practice multiplication facts 2-10
Solve 2 and 3 step word problems using the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)
Use place value knowledge to round 3 and 4 digit numbers to nearest 10's and 100's
Add and subtract 3 and 4 digit numbers within 1000
Partition wholes into equal parts and label fractional parts of the whole
Helpful math videos:

Science:
This week in science we will begin to learn about the properties of stars.  The students will compare and contrast properties of stars such as brightness, color and size.

Week of January 13, 2020

Upcoming events:
1/13 & 1/14 - District Math Progress Monitor Assessment
1/15 - Make-up PMA test
1/16 - IMAX field trip - Please remember to send a bag lunch with your child.

Resources this week:
1/14 - P.E.
1/17 - Media/Art

Math:

This week in math the students will partition a whole into equal parts, identifying and counting unit fractions by drawing pictorial area models.  They will represent and identify fractional parts of different wholes.  The students will partition a whole into equal parts and define the equal parts to identify the unit fraction numerically.  

Things to practice at home:
Continue learning multiplication facts 2-10
Practice solving 2-3 step word problems involving the 4 operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)
Use place value knowledge to round numbers to nearest 10's and 100's
Solve area word problems
Begin to partition whole into different parts and discussing parts of whole
Add and subtract 3 and 4 digit numbers with and without regrouping
Helpful math videos:

Science:

This week in science we will conclude our unit on energy by discussing friction and radiant energy. We will discuss ways the sun heats up objects and how objects will lose heat if the sun is not present.

  

Week of January 6, 2020

Upcoming events:
1/6 - Teacher Planning Day - No School
1/7 - School Resumes 
1/9 - IMAX Field Trip permission forms and $ due (Number of students attending field trip due to IMAX)
1/10- End of Module 4 Assessment
1/16 - IMAX Field Trip
1/20 - MLK Day - No School

Resources this week:
1/9 - Music/Art


Math:
This week in math we will be preparing/reviewing area and strategies for solving area problems.  The students will be tested on Module 4 concepts Friday 1/10.  District Math Progress Monitoring tests will be administered week of 1/13. We will begin our Module 5 learning about fractions as numbers on a number line.  The students will begin to partition a whole into equal parts, identifying and counting unit fractions (fractions with numerators of 1) using concrete models. They will learn to partition number lines into fractional parts renaming whole numbers as fractions.

Things to practice at home:
Continue learning multiplication facts 2-10
Solve 2 step word problems involving the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
Use knowledge of place value to round 2, 3 and 4 digit number to nearest 10's and 100's
Begin to partition objects into equal parts.  Example: partition a cookie into 2 equal parts, 4 equal parts, a dozen eggs into 4 equal parts.
Tell time to nearest minute, 5 minutes and solve elapsed time word problems.
Compose and decompose shapes and solve for area of shapes
Practice solving for area in non-rectangular shapes
Helpful math videos:

Science:
This week in math we will learn about energy transfer and transformation.