Week of May 18, 2020

Week 9 of Duval HomeRoom

Upcoming events:
5/19 - Virtual SAC Meeting at 6:00pm
5/20 - Early Release
5/25 - Memorial Day - No School
5/29 - Last Day of School


Resources this Week:
5/18 - Media
5/19 - Art
5/20 - Music
5/21 - P.E.


Math:
This week in math the students will continue working with Area and Perimeter.  The will continue to construct rectangles with a given perimeter using unit squares and determine their areas.  The students will begin to solve a variety of word problems with perimeter.  

Example word problem with given perimeter:

Helpful Videos:

Science:
This week in science the student will complete the Unit 8 Assessment "Classifying Plants and Animals".  We will begin Unit 9 "Living things Change".

Week of May 11, 2020

Week 8 of Duval HomeRoom

Upcoming events:

5/19 - Virtual SAC meeting at 6:00 p.m.
5/25 - Memorial Day - No School
5/29 - Last Day of School

Resources this Week:

5/11 - Media
5/12 - Art
5/13 - Music
5/14 - P.E.

Math:

This week in math the students will begin to connect perimeter to area by constructing rectangles from a given number of unit squares to determine perimeters.  They will also construct rectangles with a given perimeter using unit squares and determine their areas.

Example problem showing a 2 units by 4 units rectangle.  The Area of this rectangle is 8 square units (2 x 4 = 8) and the perimeter of this rectangle is 4 + 2 + 4 + 2 =12 units

Example word problem connecting the concepts of Area and perimeter:

Marci says, "If a rectangle has a greater area than another rectangle, it must have a larger perimeter."  Do you agree or disagree?  Show an example to prove your thinking

Science: 

This week in science we will conclude our Unit 8 on "Classifying Plants and Animals".  The students will work on completing our Benchmark Review questions before our Unit 8 assessment. 

Week of May 4, 2020

Week 7 of Duval HomeRoom

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Upcoming events:

5/8 - Virtual Field Day 12:00 to 3:00
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Resources this Week:
5/4 - Media
5/5 - Music
5/6 - Art
5/7 - P.E.

Math:
This week in math we will be learning about solving real world problems involving perimeter and missing measurements.  The students will use all four operations to solve problems involving perimeter of unknown measurements.  They will continue to practice solving for perimeter adding all of the sides of shapes to determine the outside boundary measurement.  The students will review the definition of "regular" and "irregular" polygons.

Example problem solving perimeter with unknown side length:

What is the perimeter of this figure?  Remember that perimeter is the outside boundaries of a shape.  The students must label the unknown sides as 11 cm and 3 cm.  The equation to solve this problem is 3 cm + 3 cm + 3 cm + 11 cm +11 cm= 31 cm.  The perimeter of this shape is 31 cm.

Science:
This week in Science we will learn about how we can classify things. Sorting and grouping plants or animals based on characteristics.

Week of April 27, 2020

Week 6 of Duval HomeRoom

Upcoming events:
4/29 - Early Release 

Resources this week:

4/27 - Media

4/28 - Music

4/29 - Art

4/30 - P.E.

Math:
This week in math we will be reviewing polygons, quadrilaterals, angles, and perimeter.  The students will determine the perimeter of regular polygons and rectangles when whole number measurements are unknown.  They will begin to solve word problems to determine perimeter with given side lengths.

Example perimeter word problem:

Science:
This week in science we will continue learning about classifying animals.  We will begin to learn about classifying invertebrates.

Week of April 20, 2020

Week 5 of Duval HomeRoom

Resource this week:
4/20 - Media
4/21 - Music
4/22 - Art
4/23 - P.E.

Math:
This week in math we will be discussing perimeter of shapes. The students will understand that the perimeter of shapes is the distance around the outside of a figure/shape.  To find the perimeter of a figure you must add the length of all of the sides together.  The students will practice measuring side lengths in whole number units to determine the perimeter of polygons.  They will explore perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and solve problems.

The students should count the number of sides to classify the shape as an octagon (a shape with 8 sides) and add all the sides to find the perimeter of this shape.

Example perimeter word problem.  The students are able to use addition or multiplication strategies to solve this problem.

This shape is a regular polygon (square) since all sides are equal.

Math Helpful Videos:

Science:

This week in science we will continue learning about Classifying Plants and Animals.  The students will learn how to classify vertebrates.

Week of April 13, 2020

Week 4 of Duval HomeRoom

Resources this week:

4/13 - Media

4/14 - Music

4/15 - Art

4/16 - P.E. 

Math:

This week in math we will begin a new task "Problem of the Day".  Our problem of the day will be a way to review concepts learned by practicing using our RDW (Read, Draw, Write) strategy to solve word problems.  The students will log in and check in for attendance and download their problem of the day.  The expectation is to have the problem completed by 10:00 a.m. We will video chat to review strategies and solutions used to solve the problem.  This is a good way to review mathematical concepts learned. This week we will continue learning about polygons and quadrilaterals.  The students will identify attributes of polygons and name shapes.  We will analyze shapes by looking at angles, equal sides, and/or parallel sides or lines.  The students will learn about regular and irregular polygons.  A polygon with all equal sides and equal angles is a regular polygon.  A polygon with unequal sides and angles is called an irregular polygon.
Example chart of regular and irregular polygons:

Science:

This week in science we will begin Unit 8 "Classifying Plants and Animals".  The unit focuses on the big idea of diversity and evolution of living organisms.  This week the students will use the HMH Florida Science site to read lesson 1 "How Can We Classify Plants?  During the reading the students should take notes to help with the lesson 1 quiz.  Since you cannot write on the pages of our ebook you may want to write your answers on a piece of paper.  You do not need to turn in your "Sum It Up or "Brain Check" answers. 

Week of April 6, 2020

Week 3 of Duval HomeRoom

Upcoming Events:
4/10 - No School - Good Friday

3rd Grade Resources this week:
Monday - Media
Tuesday - Music
Wednesday - Art
Thursday - P.E.

Math:
This week in math the students will be learning about polygons and quadrilaterals.  We will learn that polygons are shapes with straight sides and no openings. Quadrilaterals are 4 sided shapes.

Science:
This week in science the students will complete the Unit 7 "Plants and the Environment" benchmark test.  They will complete the assessment by using the HMH Florida Science site.