Week of August 12th

Important Dates

8/20 Picture Day

9/10 PTA Jump-It's Night

9/23-9/27 Fall Break

This week in Mrs. Plante's Math....

This week we are starting Unit 1: Order of Operation and Whole Numbers. 

HERE is a link to the Parent Letter created by the State to explain what standards are being taught in this unit. 

Our focus this week is place value from thousandths to millions as well as Powers of 10. 

HERE is a video explaining multiplication and division with Powers of 10.  

This week in Mrs. Allen's Writing...

We are learning to evaluate opinion writing and writing our own personal opinion piece. 

This week in Mrs. Allen's Social Studies...We will begin learning about the the turn of the century. An assessment will be given on August 16th.

Standard: SS5H1 Describe how life changed in America at the turn of the century. 

a. Describe the role of the cattle trails in the late 19th century; include the Black Cowboys of Texas, the Great Western Cattle Trail, and the Chisholm Trail. 

b. Describe the impact on American life of the Wright brothers (flight), George Washington Carver (science), Alexander Graham Bell (communication), and Thomas Edison (electricity). 

c. Explain how William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt expanded America’s role in the world; include the Spanish-American War and the building of the Panama Canal. 

d. Describe the reasons people immigrated to the United States, from where they emigrated, and where they settled.

HERE is a great site to check out more information on our current unit. 

This week in Mr. Brumbelow's Reading...

We will continue reading our first Shared Reading book of the year, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. We will be keeping track of all our story elements as we progress through the book. We will begin with vocabulary work, read chorally as a class, and then partner reread to ensure comprehension. Students will use their reading notebooks to write their own super sentences using our new vocabulary words. Students will also be answering a written response to the text in their reading notebooks. 

Students will be given a list of vocabulary words for this week. I will also post a snip it of the words with definitions below. As of now they will test over the spelling and definitions of these words on Monday 8/12.