Weekly Update 5.2.17
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On May 2, 2017
Be on the Lookout for…
- Please return BYOD forms asap! Students who have turned in their forms may begin bringing in devices tomorrow. They may bring them each day, but should keep them in their backpacks until instructed otherwise.
- Time is running out! Student conferences will be here before we know it! Thank you to all who have signed up for the Spring Student Led Conferences. If you have not, or need to check your time, please visit the link asap!
- MULTIPLICATION QUIZZES are still taking place! Students have taken their 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, 6’s, 7’s, 8’s, 9’s, 10’s, 11’s and 12’s Multiplication Sundae quizzes. Tuesdays and Thursday will be makeups for ANY quiz students want to make up. 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.
- The Multiplication Ice Cream Sundae party will be Thursday, May 11th. Everyone, please visit the signup page to volunteer items and/or your time to make this sundae party a success! word-I scream, You scream
- Mark Your Calendars- EOG Dates! These are right before and right after Memorial Day, which I know is inconvenient but unavoidable this year. It is SOOOOOOO important your child is present for the test so they can take it with ME, in THEIR classroom, in an environment they are familiar with. If they are late or absent, these conditions cannot be guaranteed. Friday, May 26th Grade 3 Reading and Grade 5 Science Tuesday, May 30th Grade 3 Math & Grade 4 Reading
- Mrs. Vaughan’s wish list! It’s that time of year where supplies are running low and we need some help from parents. Our class is in need of: colored dry erase markers, clorox wipes, and eraser caps. If you are able to assist with this, it would be greatly appreciated and your child could earn dojo points!
This week in Literacy:
Students are heading into our last major unit of our reading for this year. Students will revisit the concept of government through 3 texts related to the subject. We will also spend a good deal of our reading and writing time beginning to review for the big ole test at the end of this month! I don’t want to overload anyone with copies and tasks, so Please email me to request any additional test materials you’d like to work on from home.
This week in Math:
Students are wrapping up a metric measurement unit tomorrow and will move onto length measurement with rulers and plotting points on a line plot graph!
Tomorrow, students will bring home a Summative Math Review packet for homework. It covers everything we have learned this year and need to know for the EOG. This is due MONDAY MAY 15. It can be done at whatever pace works for your child. Please note areas your child struggles with and let me know if there is something you would like extra practice on. Make sure they SHOW WORK, so YOU can see THEIR thinking!
Current vocab: grams, kilograms, metric, liters, milliliters, meters, centimeters, inches
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, numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model
A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year
