October 13th

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Parent/Teacher Conferences will take place tomorrow and Thursday evening.

MATH

Link to the Student Guide (mathematics textbook): http://webcom4.grtxle.com/MTB3/uploads/MTB3_Gr5_SG.pdf

Brazier - Switch 1: Powers of 10. Multiplying and dividing with zeros (whole numbers and decimals). DPP due Monday, October 20.

* HOMEWORK #1: WEEKLY REVIEW. DUE WEDNESDAY.

Brazier - Switch 2: Powers of 10. Multiplying and dividing with zeros (whole numbers and decimals). DPP due Monday, October 27.

* HOMEWORK: WEEKLY REVIEW. DUE WEDNESDAY.

Martinez - Switch 1: Powers of 10.  Multiplying with zeros.

* HOMEWORK: WEEKLY REVIEW. DUE WEDNESDAY.

Martinez - Switch 2: Powers of 10.  Multiplying with zeros.

* HOMEWORK: WEEKLY REVIEW. DUE WEDNESDAY.

YOUR CHILD SHOULD ASK YOU: WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DIGITS IN THE NUMBER 222?  THEY SHOULD TEACH THIS TO YOU.

SOCIAL STUDIES

See your fifth grader’s planner for a link to the textbook.

Kornas Switch 1 and 2: Passed back chapter 1 test and went over the correct answers.  Went over chapter 2 vocabulary and shared examples.  Read Time for Kids.

Barber: Return chapter 1 test.  Read and discuss chapter 2.1 and begin vocabulary work.

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: Partnership work.  Students take a stop & jot to share with their partners.

Brazier: “Texts teach readers new words.”

* ASK: “What’s a word you came across in your reading today whose meaning you weren’t sure of? Do you have a theory about its meaning?”

Kornas: “Readers step inside and outside of the story to build theories about characters.”

Martinez:  Getting re-acquainted with reading partners.  Reading partner interviews.  Formal reading assessments continue.

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber: Writers learn about their partners.  Interview our new writing partners.  

Brazier: “Writers draw upon strategies they already know for generating personal narratives.”

* ASK: “What’s a personal narrative? What strategies do you know of for generating one?” (BONUS QUESTION: “Why are some personal narratives more “significant” than others?”)

Kornas: “Writers create a mental movie to remember details of a special person or place.”

Martinez: Freewrite Monday.

* HOMEWORK: PUBLISHED PIECE.  DUE TOMORROW.  BRING A BEVERAGE.