October 24th

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• There will be a math study session on Monday during lunch for any students interested in receiving help with or doing more multiplication problems.

SPELLING

Barber: Personalized Spelling Test/ next week’s list is 5 words from the required word list.  

TEST THURSDAY!

Brazier: Spelling Test

Martinez: Personalized Spelling Test

Kornas: Coming soon!

MATH

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

Brazier - Switch 1: CFR (Check for Retention). “Can Collectors,” a thought-provoking and multi-step story problem.  

*ASK: “What did you do when you realized you weren’t exactly sure what to do the first time you read ‘Can Collectors?’ Did you persevere and try to make sense of the problem?”

*CFP #2 ON TUESDAY (“Mom & Pop Multiplication”)

*HOMEWORK: WEEKLY REVIEW. DUE WEDNESDAY.

Brazier - Switch 2: Introduction to the “Mom & Pop” Way to Multiply. Daily Practice Problems.

*CFP #1 RE-TAKE ON TUESDAY

*HOMEWORK #1: STRAND 2 DPP DUE ON MONDAY.

*HOMEWORK #2: WEEKLY REVIEW. DUE WEDNESDAY.

Martinez - Switch 1: Drawing area models to scale.

*CFP #1 RE-TAKE ON TUESDAY (Study Session at Lunch on Monday)

*HOMEWORK: WEEKLY REVIEW. DUE WEDNESDAY.

Martinez - Switch 2:  Introduction of area model.

*CFP #1 RE-TAKE ON TUESDAY (Study Session at Lunch on Monday)

*HOMEWORK: WEEKLY REVIEW. DUE WEDNESDAY.

SOCIAL STUDIES

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

Barber Switch 1 and 2: Review organizer from 3.3.  Read aloud 3.4 & 3.5 and complete the organizer.

Kornas Switch 1 and 2: Finished I.N.B. pgs. 16-17.  

HOMEWORK: “CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURAL REGIONS AND GROUPS” (LONG SHEET OF PAPER).  YOUR CHILD WAS ASSIGNED TO BE AN EXPERT IN ONE SECTION OF OUR S.S. CHAPTER, THIS COLUMN IS THE ONLY COLUMN THAT NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY.

READING WORKSHOP

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

Barber: “Partners know a lot about each other’s characters.”

Brazier: “Readers provide context when summarizing.”

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

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

WRITING WORKSHOP

The expectations for our students as writers have never been higher.

Barber: “Writers think about a ‘turning point’.”

Brazier: “Writers ‘act out’ the words they write.”

Kornas: Chalk Talk about transitions.  Free write Friday!

Martinez: Work day.  Students worked hard to have a rough draft of two “significant” personal narratives.