The concepts that we will be instructing for the next two weeks encompasses Addition and Subtraction fluency within one million (without decomposing across zeros). Students will:
- use the standard algorithm to add multi-digit whole numbers
- use the standard algorithm to subtract multi-digit whole numbers (without decomposing across zeros)
- Determine when to use the standard algorithm to add or subtract multi-digit numbers
- apply place value understandings to estimate and reason about sums of multi digit addition problems
- add multiple addends fluently
A helpful website that we will be using in class is:
Our goal is to have weekly quizzes that will assess student progress with each section of material taught. The day we have the quiz will depend on how far we get in teaching the concept. Quizzes will be announced and written in agenda books each week. Math homework will be assigned Monday through Thursday to reinforce concepts students are learning in their small groups that week. Some homework will be in written and at other times it will be on the computer. If your child is frustrated by the homework and unable to determine a strategy for completion, please write a note on the paper and we will review with him/her the following day.
In addition, students should be practicing their basic facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication) each night. Students must be fluent in all four operations by the end of this year. Two great websites we use in class are:
www.multiplication.com
www.Khanacademy.org
www.thinkingblocks.com
Reading/Social Studies
This week students will engage in reading informational texts in order to highlight and paraphrase a text. Students will then meet with a partner in order to synthesize information from two sources. Students are reading in order to recognize various ways Native Americans used their natural environment to provide clothing and shelter. This depended on the region they inhabited.
Each day students will practice what is taught in the mini-lesson in their guided reading group. Students examine how cause and effect is used as a text structure to describe how animals make adaptations to survive in their environments.
Social Studies/Media/Writing
In Media we will continue to research the geography and settlement patterns of Native Americans before 1400. Now that we have gathered our research, students will use what they have learned about native culture to continue crafting a historical fiction piece for writing.
Our media time will be flexible and based on the needs of each class. Mr. Bidwick's class is gathering photographs and beginning to create a PowerPoint presentation this week.
Students will continue working in media and in writing to create a historical fiction piece centered around a native person from the 1300s. They will have to create a setting based on where their tribe lived and create a problem and solution that would have been possible in the 1300s. Finals copies for their writing will be set by classroom teachers.
Science
During this marking period we will study ecosystems, particularly the Chesapeake Bay. Students will gain understandings that include that every living thing needs energy to grow and survive, that organisms have and use features and behaviors for survival in their environment and that organisms interact in different was with each other and their environment.
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