May 17th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Late Start (final one of the school year) tomorrow

MATH

Barber:Dividing With Fractions

Brazier: Dividing a Whole Number by a Fraction

* ASK: “Why is the answer to 8 divided by ⅔ exactly half the answer to 8 divided by ⅓?”

* HOMEWORK: (if necessary) FIX THE ERRORS YOU MADE ON THE MULTIPLICATION CHECKPOINT

Martinez: Multiplying mixed numbers.

* Multiplication Checkpoint test on Thursday.  Review mistakes at home.

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: “Complex text readers search all around the word for meaning.”

Brazier: What Makes Complex Nonfiction Hard to Read (the headings and subheadings don’t help or are misleading; there are several main ideas; and the central and main ideas are implicit)

Martinez: “Nonfiction readers use strategies to find multiple main ideas in a text.”

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber: “Writers sometimes use props (to help teach their topic).”

Brazier: “Informational writing tends to follow the same structure.”

* ASK: “Tell me what you know about the structure of informational writing.”

Martinez: “Informational writers write all they know about their categories.”

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)

*WAX MUSEUM FINAL PAPER ON THURSDAY, MAY 19th.  

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)

* FINAL SPELLING TEST ON THURSDAY

* HOMEWORK (Due Thursday):

(A) RE-WRITE, TWICE, ANY SENTENCES ON THE SPELLING TEST THAT WEREN’T COMPLETELY CORRECT.

(B) WRITE, 10 TIMES EACH, ANY OF THE 6 WORDS SPELLED INCORRECTLY ON THE BOTTOM PART OF THE TEST (visible; loyalty; tunnel; tumor; sailor; village)

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)

Ball in Cup Lab (Martinez)