October 21st

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Late Start tomorrow

MATH

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

Brazier - Switch 1: CFP. Introduction to the “Mom & Pop” way of multiplying.

*HOMEWORK: MAKE UP AND SOLVE 20 MULTIPLICATION PROBLEMS (see Friday’s blog for specific requirements). DUE TOMORROW.

Brazier - Switch 2: “Number Talk.” Area Model of Multiplication. Worksheet: “Multiplication Practice.” Daily Practice Problems. DPP due on Monday, October 27.

*CFP TOMORROW (See the worksheet handed out in class for sample problems.)

*HOMEWORK: MAKE UP AND SOLVE 20 MULTIPLICATION PROBLEMS (see Friday’s blog for specific requirements). DUE TOMORROW.

Martinez - Switch 1: CFP Review.

*CFP TOMORROW (Multiplying with Zeros; Multiplying with Grids; Estimating; Area Model Multiplication; and Partial Product Computation)

*HOMEWORK: MAKE UP AND SOLVE 20 MULTIPLICATION PROBLEMS USING “PARTIAL PRODUCT.”  ANSWERS SHOULD BE CHECKED WITH A CALCULATOR.  DUE TOMORROW.

*HOMEWORK: FINISH DPP A-M.  DUE FRIDAY.

Martinez - Switch 2:  CFP Review.  

*CFP TOMORROW (Multiplying with Zeros; Multiplying with Grids; Estimating; and Partial Product Computation)

*HOMEWORK: MAKE UP AND SOLVE 20 MULTIPLICATION PROBLEMS USING “PARTIAL PRODUCT.”  ANSWERS SHOULD BE CHECKED WITH A CALCULATOR.  DUE TOMORROW.

SOCIAL STUDIES

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

Barber Switch 1 and 2: Chapter 3 vocabulary wrap up.  Read 3.1 & 3.2 and introduce chapter organizer.

Kornas Switch 1 and 2: Chapter 3 vocabulary wrap up.  Read 3.1 & 3.2.

READING WORKSHOP

There is no At-Home Reading Log in grade five; however, nightly reading of just-right, student-selected text is essential.

Barber: “Readers grow ideas.” Partnerships: share a ‘bursting’ moment with partner.

Brazier: “Partners share favorite passages.”

*ASK: “What observations have you already made about Gilly Hopkins? What was your favorite line/passage from the first pages of The Great Gilly Hopkins?”  

Kornas: “Readers use precise words to describe characters.”

Martinez: Review of workshop guidelines.  New reading log.

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber: “Writers generate ideas/ a first time or a last time.”

Brazier: “Writers use dialogue for multiple purposes.”

*ASK: “Share with me a line of dialogue you used today in your writing. What’s some dialogue that Mr. B used in his embarrassing basketball story? Why do writers use dialogue in their personal narratives?”

Kornas: “Writers focus on transition words.”

Martinez:  “Writers generate entries for personal narratives by thinking of their first and last times.”