Weekly Update 3.28.17
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 28, 2017
Welcome to 4th quarter!
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will come home today. Please look through papers and return necessary items.
- There will be a BYOD (Bringing Youth On board Digitally/Bring Your Own Device) meeting for parents next Tuesday, March 28th at 6pm in the Media Center. Lots of info will be presented at this meeting, so please plan for 1 parent, or the whole family to attend!
- This Thursday, March 30th, students will participate in Ellis Island Day! A detailed email went home about this last week and a green flyer is in Tuesday folders as well. Thank you to my 4 volunteers! Please let me know if you did not receive this email or have questions about the activities/expectations for that day.
- Students have taken their 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, 6’s, 7’s, 8’s 10’s, 11’s and 12’s Multiplication Sundae quizzes. Thursday will be 9’s again since so many friends struggled with those. These are timed on a visible stopwatch for student goals only, not countdown as a “it has to be done by this time” manner. Students should be able to answer the 16 questions in under 2 minutes to be considered “fluent”. Students will record their time on the back of their quiz, and their pieces earned on the sundae picture that is housed inside a plastic sheet in their agenda. You can expect a quiz usually Tues and Thurs with makeups on Fri for those who do not pass.
- Scholastic Book Order flyers went home with students Monday. Please consider ordering some text to motivate your budding reader and help our classroom at the same time! Our class code is GPPF6 and online catalogs can be accessed here. Orders are due back Thursday by 4pm so we can get them back prior to spring break! word- scholastic
This week in Literacy:
Students are using their knowledge of 1 event from the exciting text, Living Through a Natural Disaster to create a digital news report using TellagamiEDU.
Students are also presenting their Country Research slides to the class this week. Check out their Drive! You are going to be amazed what your child can do!
This week in Math:
Students are wrapping up a lengthy, but exciting Fractions unit. Study Guides went home Monday and are due Friday. Lots of vocab is important in understanding this concept. Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes
Current vocab: numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model
Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus, arrays, repeated addition, area, perimeter, rectilinear area, commutative property (flip flop rule), number line, product, distributive (break apart method), associative property, graphs, pictographs, bar graphs
A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year
