Important Dates
- Election Day No School 11/5
- Thanksgiving Break 11/25-11/29
This week in Mrs. Plante's Math....
We are continuing our unit on decimals covering multiplication and division.
HERE is the Parent Letter from the Georgia Department of Education outlining what we will be learning in this unit.
HERE is a video multiplying decimals using an area model.
Your student can review 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).
This week in Mrs. Allen's Class
We are continuing our novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963. Once we have completed the novel we will begin a research paper. More information will follow in the a few weeks. 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.
In Science:
We are beginning 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
Mammel: 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 begin reading our newest informational text, The Sun by Seymour Simon.
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 not
be a spelling and/or vocabulary test over words from this book,
however, we will use these words daily in our written responses to the
text.
***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.
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