Weekly Update 3.7.17

By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 7, 2017

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Be on the Lookout for…

• Tuesday Folders will NOT come home today.
• 3rd quarter interim reports came home last Friday, March 3rd. Please sign and return ASAP!
• We have a Camp Flintlock field trip THIS Friday, March 10. Thank you to Ms. Benzing, Ms. Benson, and Mr. Perry for volunteering! Here is a checklist to help your child have a great experience:
• • Check the weather; wear appropriate clothing.
  • If the day is expected to be hot then pack a water bottle.
  • Have them bring a small bag or backpack to carry items they expect to make and/or purchase
  • Watch the 5 minute field trip video at http://www.campflintlock.com/pages/fieldtrips/fieldtrips.html
  • Discuss what is appropriate for your child to spend at the Camp Store. We have over 100 items (no candy or food). Dollar Items (Arrowheads, Writing Quills, Buffalo Teeth, Lucky Rabbit Feet), Writing Supplies (Ink $3, $5 and $8 per bottle), Silk Fans and Sandalwood Fans ($3), Silk Parasols ($8 each), Musical Instruments (Flutes $3, Tin Whistles $10, Fifes $12 and $19, Drumsticks $5 a pair), Furs (Daniel Boone Coon Hats $10, Fox Tails $6 & $12, Rabbit Furs $10), Games (Cup and Ball $5, Graces $23), Flint and Steel Kits ($16) For a more complete listing of our merchandise and pictures use this link http://www.campflintlock.com/pages/store/store.html. word- Flintlock
• Students have taken their 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, 6’s, 7’s 10’s, and 11’s  Multiplication Sundae quizzes. Thursday will be 7’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.

This week in Literacy:

Students are continuing nonfiction with the fascinating and exciting text, Living Through a Natural Disaster. It features true stories of Cyclone Tracy, Huang He River flooding, and El Nino. Personal accounts, amazing photos, diagrams, and complex text make this been really “eye” opening 🙂

No spelling retests this week.

This week in Math:

Students are continuing a lengthy, but exciting Fractions unit. 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 can be found here

This quarter in Social Studies: We finish our Changes unit this week and will begin an Immigration Unit to reach SS objectives in the following areas.

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