Week of November 18th

Important Dates

- Classroom Spelling Bee Friday, 11/22
- Thanksgiving Break 11/25-11/29
- School wide field trip to PCHS 12/5
- Winter Wonderland PTA Night 12/5 5:30-7 
- Sparkles PTA fundraiser 4-8pm in Hiram 12/14
- District Spelling Bee Tuesday, 12/17
- Two hour early release Friday, 12/20
- Holiday Break 12/23 - 1/2

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

We are starting our unit on fractions. HERE is the letter from the state department of education outlining what your student is going to learn in this unit. Our focus for this week will be equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, and ordering fractions. 

Equivalent Fractions video

Comparing fractions with models

Videos from Unit 3

HERE is a video multiplying decimals using an area model.

HERE is a video multiplying large decimals using the standard algorithm. 
HERE is a video dividing decimals by whole number using a model. 

Videos from Unit 2

Rounding Decimals

Ordering Decimals

Comparing Decimals

Place Value of Decimals

Videos from Unit 1

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 Class

We are continuing our novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963. 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. Please encourage your students to complete homework each night. This week we will began a research paper on the Civil Rights movement. Students will have an opportunity to do some research in class, however if possible they will need to be able to do some research at home. 

In Science:

We are continuing the Vertebrate and Invertebrate unit in Science. 

5L1AStandard Illustrate how animals are sorted into groups of vertebrates and invertebrates and how vertebrates are sorted.

5L1BStandard Illustrate how plants are sorted into groups of seed producers and non-seed producers.

Animals: Living organisms that move on their own and eat organic matter 

Vertebrates: An organism with a backbone

Invertebrates: An organism that does not have a backbone 

Fish: A cold-blooded vertebrate with fins and gills that lives in water 

Amphibian: Any of various cold-blooded, usually smooth-skinned vertebrates, characteristically hatching as an aquatic larva with gills and then transforming into an adult having air-breathing lungs

Reptiles: Any of various usually cold-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates having dry skin covered with scales or plates and breathing by means of lungs

Bird: A warm-blooded animal that has wings, two legs, feathers, a beak, and lays eggs

Mammal: Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young

Plant: A type of organism that gets its energy directly from the Sun and is unable to move from place to place on its own

This week in Mr. Brumbelow's Class

We will continue reading our new fiction text, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. We will be keeping track of all our text structure 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 complete some vocabulary word work. Students will also be answering a written response to the text in their reading notebooks.
There will be a vocabulary test at the beginning of next week Monday, 12/2 over our vocabulary words from The Westing Game. 

Week 2 (Test 12/2/19)

Meaning and Spelling Vocabulary

Sus pic ion (closed, closed, vowel team) is a noun that means a feeling or belief that someone is guilty of something, perhaps a crime.  A person about whom you are suspicious is a suspect.  A suspect might act suspiciously.  Suspciously is an adverb. Al ib i (closed, closed, open) is a noun that means proof that a person was somewhere else when a crime occurred.  If you have a good alibi, you couldn’t have committed a crime.  One thing we will hear a character say in the next chapters is that he has an alibi for the time of the murder.  Co in cid ence (open, closed, closed, closed) is a noun that means two events that happen at the same time. Co means two and incidence is an event.  If you and your friend buy the very same dress, that is a coincidence.  The adjective form is coincident. I ron y (open, closed, open) is a noun meaning an author's choice to share with the reader thing that the characters don't know.  We are going to see some examples of irony in the things that the characters say and do. The characters are being secretive and not sharing their thoughts.  But we see all of their thoughts  -- that means that the author is letting the reader know more than any one of the characters.  That's because there is an omniscient point of view.   Ironic is the adjective form. Ten sion (closed, vowel team) is a noun that means a feeling of stress or strain.  These chapters have a lot of tension.  In these chapters the author is creating tension through a lot of action.  We can tell that she wants us to be excited about the events that are building.  A person feeling tension is tense.  Tense is the adjective form. Will (closed) A noun that means a legal document that says what should happen with the inheritance or the estate.

***Please make sure your child has a library book at home with them every day. It should be kept in their book bags unless they are reading them and brought to school with them every day. It is extremely important that your child read at least 20-30 minutes every night for them to continue to improve their reading abilities.

***Students will have reading homework this week. It will be given to them on Monday and is due by Friday morning at 8am.***

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.