Week of October 14th

Important Dates

- End of the 1st 9 Weeks 10/11
- Conference Week 10/14-10/18
- Spooky Science Night 10/30 @ DES

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

We are finishing Unit 2: decimals. Our focus is reviewing reading, writing, and comparing decimals along with adding and subtracting decimals. UNIT TEST FRIDAY 10/18.

HERE is the Parent Letter from the Georgia Dep. of Education outlining what your student will learn in this unit. 

You student can review these skills through IXL.com (login information is located in their agenda) Skills to review are G.3 (word form), G.4 (place value), and G.10 (comparing decimal numbers), H.1 - H.4 (adding/subtracting decimals) and G.7 (rounding decimals).

Videos for our new unit:
Rounding Decimals
Ordering Decimals
Comparing Decimals
Place Value of Decimals

Videos from our previous unit to help review:

Partial Quotient Strategy for division Video

Area Model Multiplication Video

Standard Algorithm Multiplication Video

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

HERE is a video explaining the Order of Operations

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

In writing this week we are reading The Boy Who Loved Words with some written responses from the book.  We will also began writing our informational peaces. Each night your student will have Daily Oral Language for homework. We will check them each day in class and each Friday they will be assessed. 

This week in Mrs. Allen's Social Studies 

In science we have begun our unit The Great Depression. Please encourage your student to read over their notes each night. 

SS5H3 Explain how the Great Depression and New Deal affected the lives of millions of Americans.

a. Discuss the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, the Dust Bowl, and soup kitchens. 

b. Analyze the main features of the New Deal; include the significance of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. 

c. Discuss important cultural elements of the 1930s; include Duke Ellington, Margaret Mitchell, and Jesse Owens.

Words to know
employment: the number of people who are looking for a job but can't find one.
depression: is a time when people can't find work and businesses close.
debt: is money that one person owes to another.
charity: is an organization that helps people in need.
hydroelectricity: is electricity produced by moving water.
social security: provides money to people over the age of 65.
regulation: is a rule or law.
minimum wage: is the lowest amount of money most workers can be paid.
dust bowl: swirling dust and dirt so thick it blocked the sun, it ruined crops and covered land and homes with dust. The areas known as the dust bowl are Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado because they had the worst damage. 

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

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

***Students will not have reading homework as this is an early release week***

We will continue our NBI (Needs Based Instruction) reading rotations. Some students will be working in the computer labs on Read 180 or System 44. Other students will stay in the classroom and meet with me in small groups to work on reading fluency and comprehension. This program helps students that are reading below grade level become more proficient readers. It will also have students that are on grade level continue to grow their reading skills and vocabulary up to and beyond the fifth grade reading band. Each of these segments will last 45 minutes.