Don't forget...tomorrow is Picture Re-Take Day! Come prepared by bringing your old pictures!
Also--make plans to join the other Stars at Northpoint at the USA Roller Rink on Thursday night. Dinner at Culver's before is a great plan, too!
Language Arts: We continued on with our story this morning. We worked on our grammar skill of common and proper nouns...with lots of white board practice. Some of us are really struggling with remembering that all proper nouns start with capital letters. We're working on it, though! We also spent quite a bit of time on Author's Purpose...students were given a resource sheet to add to binders helping them remember this important information. We added our new Common Core words into our glossaries as well as read the story of the week and worked on the Think and Compare questions.
HW: Finish Think and Compare questions if they weren't completed in class. Weekly homework is due on Friday.
Math: We took the Unit 3 practice test today. This test will look very similar to tomorrow's real Unit 3 test. As a group, we went over the answers so the students all had the same material to study from tonight.
HW: Study for the Unit 3 test. If the multiplication sheet or math boxes 3.12 weren't done in class, they are due tomorrow.
Social Studies: Content 1--Chapter 3 test today.
HW: None
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Monday
I think Fall is finally here to stay...this weather would be delightful...if we were ducks! : /
Picture Re-takes are going to take place on Wednesday! Be prepared to bring back your pictures that you don't want and the photographers will retake your picture!
Language Arts: We finished up our Greek Mythology mini unit on Friday so we jumped into Unit 2 in our Basals today. The first story is "Mighty Jackie" which is a historical fiction piece about women playing baseball! With this story, we're going to be learning about determining the author's purpose in writing, working more with setting and characters, reading tables and charts and writing persuasive letters.
Our story vocabulary words this week are: legendary, muttered, gaped, snickering, insult, fluke and flinched.
Our common core words this week are:
Math: We finished up the lessons in Unit 3 today with a lot of practice solving open number sentences. Students worked through many examples and a journal page to practice this new skill.
Homework: Finish journal pages 74-75 and math box and study link 3.11 if it wasn't completed in class. Unit 3 test will be on Wednesday
Social Studies: Content 2--students took their chapter 3 test today.
Homework: None
Picture Re-takes are going to take place on Wednesday! Be prepared to bring back your pictures that you don't want and the photographers will retake your picture!
Language Arts: We finished up our Greek Mythology mini unit on Friday so we jumped into Unit 2 in our Basals today. The first story is "Mighty Jackie" which is a historical fiction piece about women playing baseball! With this story, we're going to be learning about determining the author's purpose in writing, working more with setting and characters, reading tables and charts and writing persuasive letters.
Our story vocabulary words this week are: legendary, muttered, gaped, snickering, insult, fluke and flinched.
Our common core words this week are:
- noun--a person place or thing
- common noun--names an ordinary person, place or thing
- proper noun--names a specific person, place or thing
- Author's Purpose--the reason the author has written the piece
- Entertain--the author has written the work to entertain us, for pleasure
- Persuade--the author of the work is trying to convince us to do something
- Inform--the author of the work would like to teach us something.
- Persuasive Letter--a piece of writing that is trying to convince the reader to do something.
Math: We finished up the lessons in Unit 3 today with a lot of practice solving open number sentences. Students worked through many examples and a journal page to practice this new skill.
Homework: Finish journal pages 74-75 and math box and study link 3.11 if it wasn't completed in class. Unit 3 test will be on Wednesday
Social Studies: Content 2--students took their chapter 3 test today.
Homework: None
Monday, October 8, 2012
Monday, October 8
We had a great day today!
Language Arts: We're continuing on with our study of Greek Mythology this week. Today's focus was on Persephone and how the seasons came to be. The kids are really enjoying this break from the basal reader and are really learning a lot about the gods and goddess.
HW: Finish the Persephone paper if it wasn't done in class today. Book orders are due tomorrow. Don't forget the Greek Mythology trading cards are due on Friday. Those that have been turned in look fantastic!
Math: We worked through 2 lessons today--3.6 and 3.7. We focused on gathering information and reading charts and tables in the first part of math and then figuring out air distances in the second half.
HW: Finish journal page 64 if it wasn't completed during math time. Math boxes and study links 3.6 and 3.7 are due tomorrow.
Social Studies: (Content 2)-We finished up reading all the sections in chapter 3 today. We discussed early settlers in the New World. Study Guides were passed out today
HW: Chapter 3 test will be given on week from today, Monday, October 15th.
Language Arts: We're continuing on with our study of Greek Mythology this week. Today's focus was on Persephone and how the seasons came to be. The kids are really enjoying this break from the basal reader and are really learning a lot about the gods and goddess.
HW: Finish the Persephone paper if it wasn't done in class today. Book orders are due tomorrow. Don't forget the Greek Mythology trading cards are due on Friday. Those that have been turned in look fantastic!
Math: We worked through 2 lessons today--3.6 and 3.7. We focused on gathering information and reading charts and tables in the first part of math and then figuring out air distances in the second half.
HW: Finish journal page 64 if it wasn't completed during math time. Math boxes and study links 3.6 and 3.7 are due tomorrow.
Social Studies: (Content 2)-We finished up reading all the sections in chapter 3 today. We discussed early settlers in the New World. Study Guides were passed out today
HW: Chapter 3 test will be given on week from today, Monday, October 15th.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Tuesday
Language Arts: We started our Greek Mythology lessons today! We spent some time watching a short video that explained some common Nature Myths, and then shared a packet about what exactly a Myth is and where they come from. The students really seemed to enjoy learning about this new topic!
HW: There is NO weekly homework this week due to no basal story. There is also no spelling list. Please watch for a longer-term homework assignment to come home tomorrow that has to do with our Mythology unit. Book orders are due next Tuesday!
Math: We combined three lessons today, so we were super busy. As discussed in class, the students really need to have their math facts secure by now...if they are not, it's time to work on them! :) Lessons 3.2-3.4 are all having to do with multiplication fact review, so we are having some work sessions in class today and tomorrow to hit these skills again.
HW: Nothing is due tomorrow...all pages are due Thursday.
Social Studies: We jumped into chapter 3 today, starting to learn about the first settlers to the Americas.
HW: None
HW: There is NO weekly homework this week due to no basal story. There is also no spelling list. Please watch for a longer-term homework assignment to come home tomorrow that has to do with our Mythology unit. Book orders are due next Tuesday!
Math: We combined three lessons today, so we were super busy. As discussed in class, the students really need to have their math facts secure by now...if they are not, it's time to work on them! :) Lessons 3.2-3.4 are all having to do with multiplication fact review, so we are having some work sessions in class today and tomorrow to hit these skills again.
HW: Nothing is due tomorrow...all pages are due Thursday.
Social Studies: We jumped into chapter 3 today, starting to learn about the first settlers to the Americas.
HW: None
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
A Wonderful Wednesday
We had a wonderful Wednesday at Northpoint!
LA: Busy, busy morning today! We worked on run-on sentences and how to turn them into compound and complex so they made sense. We also partner read the story and shared some thoughts on the setting, characters and plots. We added our Common Core vocabulary into our glossaries and also worked on our court yard writing that was started in class yesterday.
HW: Finish court yard writing (Students were given 45 minutes to complete it in class) and weekly homework is due on Friday. The normal Friday assessments have been moved to Monday of next week due to our busy schedule and heavy testing this week.
Math: We reviewed for Friday's Unit 2 test today and also began working on some Common Core Cards.
HW: Study for Unit 2 test, which will be given on Friday. We have Math Acuity testing tomorrow--bring gum!
Social Studies: Content 2--we reviewed this unit's skills by completing the processing page in our Interactive Student Notebooks. We also reviewed for Friday's test.
HW: Study for the Chapter 2 test.
LA: Busy, busy morning today! We worked on run-on sentences and how to turn them into compound and complex so they made sense. We also partner read the story and shared some thoughts on the setting, characters and plots. We added our Common Core vocabulary into our glossaries and also worked on our court yard writing that was started in class yesterday.
HW: Finish court yard writing (Students were given 45 minutes to complete it in class) and weekly homework is due on Friday. The normal Friday assessments have been moved to Monday of next week due to our busy schedule and heavy testing this week.
Math: We reviewed for Friday's Unit 2 test today and also began working on some Common Core Cards.
HW: Study for Unit 2 test, which will be given on Friday. We have Math Acuity testing tomorrow--bring gum!
Social Studies: Content 2--we reviewed this unit's skills by completing the processing page in our Interactive Student Notebooks. We also reviewed for Friday's test.
HW: Study for the Chapter 2 test.
Monday, September 24, 2012
I hope everyone had a great weekend! I know it's always good in our house when the Irish pull off a win! :)
L.A.--Today we took our spelling pretest over long o words. Our Story this week is called The Raft. We will be working on context clues, characters, settings, plot, and run-on sentences in class.
Our story vocabulary words this week are:
L.A.--Today we took our spelling pretest over long o words. Our Story this week is called The Raft. We will be working on context clues, characters, settings, plot, and run-on sentences in class.
Our story vocabulary words this week are:
- disgusted
- raft
- scattered
- cluttered
- downstream
- nozzle
- plot-- includes the events in a story
- context clues-provide help in the text when we don't know what a word means.-
- purpose-- why we write something
- audience--who we are writing to
- voice-- making sure that our personality shows through in or writing
We reviewed our vocabulary and comprehension
skills. Although time didn't allow for it this morning, we will be working on fixing run-on sentences by using conjunctions or
splitting the sentences in two simpler sentences in grammar this week. We finished the morning by listening to the story.
HW: Weekly homework pack is due on Friday. Last Friday's assessments went home today--be sure to go over them as a family!
Math: We spent some time collecting data about the sizes of our heads! :) We worked in partners to gather our data, and then made a class line plot of the data and found landmarks for a problem that was presented for us.
HW: Math box and study link 2.8 are due tomorrow. Students were given a review sheet of addition problems on Friday to work on in class, this is also due tomorrow if it has not been turned in. The math test will be given on Friday of this week...this is different than stated in the planners. Weekly homework is due on Friday as well.
Social Studies--Content class 2 finished up chapter 2 by reading the Reading Further section with partners today. It was a lot of fun learning about the "Mighty Mississippi!" We also spent time reviewing for the Chapter 2 test that will be at the end of the week.
HW: Study for this week's test. The study guide and Interactive Student Notebooks are going to be great tools to help you out!
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Thursday, September 20
Don't forget...tomorrow is the Fall Carnival!
Language Arts: I had an hour long meeting this morning, so the students had a guest teacher for part of the time. I am proud to say they got a fantastic report and worked hard. We reviewed our grammar skill of complex sentences, finished our space writing, went over ways to spell the long /e/ sound, and did some more nonfiction reading and comprehension practice. It was a full morning!
HW: Weekly homework is due tomorrow! Space writing is also due if it wasn't finished in class.
Math: We worked on ballpark estimates and addition of large numbers today. Although the book went over a couple of different ways to do addition, the students are welcome to do it however it makes sense to them!
HW: Math box and study link 2.7 are due tomorrow. Journal pages 42-43 should have been completed in class. The unit 2 test will be given on Thursday of next week.
Social Studies: We finished up reading all of the sections of chapter 2. Our focus was mainly on the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest and Midwest Regions.
HW: Study guides were passed out. The test for Content 2 class will be next Friday.
Language Arts: I had an hour long meeting this morning, so the students had a guest teacher for part of the time. I am proud to say they got a fantastic report and worked hard. We reviewed our grammar skill of complex sentences, finished our space writing, went over ways to spell the long /e/ sound, and did some more nonfiction reading and comprehension practice. It was a full morning!
HW: Weekly homework is due tomorrow! Space writing is also due if it wasn't finished in class.
Math: We worked on ballpark estimates and addition of large numbers today. Although the book went over a couple of different ways to do addition, the students are welcome to do it however it makes sense to them!
HW: Math box and study link 2.7 are due tomorrow. Journal pages 42-43 should have been completed in class. The unit 2 test will be given on Thursday of next week.
Social Studies: We finished up reading all of the sections of chapter 2. Our focus was mainly on the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest and Midwest Regions.
HW: Study guides were passed out. The test for Content 2 class will be next Friday.
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