Homework

Reading  Read 20 min 

Math 3 ALEKS topics 

Facts test!

 

Social Studies

test 

worksheet

Publishing Our Wonderful Stories!

Homework

Reading:  read at least 20 minutes

Math:  pages 157-158
             practice facts
             3 ALEKS topics due on FRIDAY!

Social Studies: Study!  test on Friday!!

Our Superstar of the Week

Homework

Reading:  Read at least 20 minutes and record on your reading log

Math: Complete pages 151-152
            Practice your facts!!

Social Studies:   Test on Friday!
                            Review sent home tonight with your notes

Homework

Reading:  Read 20 minutes and record on your reading log

Math:  Fact test tomorrow!
             complete pages 145 - 146
             3 ALEKS topics due on Friday!

Picture day on Wednesday!!

What's Happening in Room 34....

Important Announcements:

• Crestwood's Fun Fair is this Saturday!  It is a day of fun, games and yummy food at Crestwood while enjoying time with family and friends and raising money for our school. A flyer and several e-mails have been sent home regarding the Fair.  Please consider volunteering an hour or so on Saturday to help make this another successful event!  I hope to see you!

• Classroom leadership roles will be assigned early this week, and the students will be trained this week as they begin to participate in making sure our classroom runs smoothly.

• The students will be assigned to complete at least 3 topics on ALEKS at home this week.   If your child needs assistance with a topic, please help him/her by using examples similar to the problems, but please allow your child to work out the assigned problems on his/her own.  ALEKS progresses the students according to what they accomplish, and if your child has not truly mastered a topic, he/she will be presented with material that may be too challenging.

Dates to Remember:

Wednesday:  Picture Day! 😀
Saturday:  Fun Fair (11:00 - 2:00)

What's Happening in Our Room....
Reading Workshop:

• The students are enjoying Tiger Rising as they discuss and think more deeply about the text.  They will be writing questions about their reading to promote thinking this week to share with their classmates.
• The students will closely read a fiction and nonfiction piece this week and compare the two short readings by answering questions.

Writing Workshop:

• This week, the students will be adding more description to their personal narrative and add "show not tell" to promote the reader to better visualize the story.  (An example of show not tell:  TELL:  I was sad.  SHOW:  A tear dropped on my cheek as my smile quickly disappeared).
•  The students will also work with a partner to identify compound sentences.

Math:

• We will begin working with multiplication this week as the students review fact families, learn the properties of multiplication and create equations from word problems.  
• We are beginning a unit that requires the students to know their multiplication facts.  They should be practicing them every evening.  They will be tested on Tuesday and Friday this week.

Social Studies:

• We began a unit on geography last week in Social Studies.  The students had fun using the online book to read and practice new vocabulary words.  The students are welcomed to look through their social studies book online at home.  The website and log in information is on their password sheet stapled inside of their Homework Folder.
• This week, the students will be able to identify the oceans and continents and use longitude and latitude to locate specific coordinates.

Homework

Reading:  follow your reading plan and read your scheduled days!

Math:  practice your facts!!

Remember to bring in your signed Weekly Reflection:)

Having Fun Practicing Our Facts!

practicing Our Facts!

Homework

Reading: read 20 minutes and record on your reading log

Math:  practice your facts!  TEST tomorrow!

Moms and Muffins tomorrow morning!  Hope to see you at 8:00!

Homework

Reading: Read 20 minutes

Math:  Test tomorrow!
             Practice your facts!!

Edpuzzle.com video and questions on compound sentences.

Creating Our Earthquake Resistant Structures

Homework

Reading:  Read 20 minutes

Math:  Practice facts
             Complete the other side of the worksheet we did in class

Science:  Finish crossword puzzle

What's Happening in Room 34......

Important Announcements:

• The students brought home their login information for MyON.  MyON is an online library of books that are personalized to your child's reading level.  The students are encouraged to use MyON at home.

• A colorful rubberband ball that was made by my son when he was in 4th grade disappeared off of my desk this past week.  It has sentimental value to me, and I am hoping it returns this week.  I asked the students to please help keep an eye out for it in the classroom, as well.  

Dates to Remember:

Wednesday:  Math test
Thursday: Mom's and Muffins at 8:00 a.m.
                     Facts test
Friday:  No School

What's Happening in Our Room....
Reading Workshop:

• We will continue to read Tiger Rising this week as the students practice discussing the characters with their reading partners.  They will also practice predicting and writing questions to promote thinking while reading.

Writing Workshop:

• The students will begin drafting their personal narrative this week after taking time to write creative leads to hook their readers last week.  They will focus on including inner thinking, action, description and dialogue to their writing this week.  I can't wait to see what they come up with!

Math:

• The students will be working with their math partners as they solve addition and subtraction word problems on Monday. 

• They will review for a test on Tuesday and will be tested over addition and subtraction on Wednesday.  

• The students will continue to work on ALEKS in the classroom as we begin math stations this week.

Science:

• The students did a WONDERFUL job on their 1st science test last week!  Thank you for your support at home!

• The students are working with their 1st STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) project.  On Friday, they were asked to create a 3-story structure that will be able to withstand an earthquake. The students spent Friday researching and designing a structure. The student will use cardboard, marshmallows, and toothpicks to create the structure with their group on Monday. The structures will be tested on Monday and Tuesday.

Researching Our 1st STEM Project

The students are to create a 3 story building to withstand an earthquake. Today the students are researching and designing their building. The students will be supplied with a box of toothpicks, a cup of small marshmallows and three pieces of cardboard. The students will share their plans on Monday and begin designing with their group.

Homework

Reading:  Read 20 minutes

Math:  worksheet
             practice facts - test tomorrow!

Homework

Reading:  Read your chapter book

Math:  addition worksheet with checking answers
             practice your facts

Science:  TEST tomorrow!  Study your notes and your review:)

Homework

Reading:  Read 20 minutes

Math: Those who need to take the 4's test, will be tested tomorrow.
             Practice facts!
             Complete rounding worksheet
           
Science:  Study your notes and the review for your test on Thursday!

Flyer Families tomorrow!  Wear your shirt:)

Early Release Tomorrow!!

Homework

Reading:  Read 20 minutes and record on your reading log

Math:  pages 71 and 72
             practice math facts

Watch the latest edpuzzle.com video on the Four Types of Sentences.

Working on the 4 Types of Sentences

What's Happening in Room 34.....

Important Announcements:

• Homework this year will include viewing short videos over material taught in the classroom or introduce concepts that will be taught the following day.  The students will view the videos on edpuzzle.com .   Once the students are on the website, they have an option to log in using google.  They need to log in through google and use their Lindbergh e-mail address and 10-digit ID number for their password. If your child does not have access to a computer at home, please drop me an e-mail so I can make arrangements to have him/her complete it in the morning. 

• The students now have their login information stapled inside of their Homework Folder.  If your child ever needs help logging into any site we use in the classroom, he/she can refer to the sheet in the Homework Folder.

• The students will be introduced to our classroom leadership roles this week.  We will review the responsibilities of each, and the students will choose two roles they would like to apply for.  An application will be completed at the end of the week.  Leadership roles will begin next week! (I can't wait!!)

• The students will be reintroduced to MyON this week!  MyON is an online personalized library. The students have their own personal library of books at their reading and inerest level on MyON.   We are encouraging the students to take advantage of reading the material in school and at home.  A note will be coming home later this week to further explain the program.

Dates to Remember:
Monday:  Dining to Donate at Chipotle!

Wednesday:  Early Dismissal at 1:40
Thursday:  Science Test
Friday:  Staff vs 5th Grade Kickball at 2:00

What's Happening in Our Room....

Reading Workshop:

• We will continue to read Tiger Rising this week as a class.  The students are practicing reading "intensely" as listen and discuss the book with their peers. We are closely studying 2 main characters' actions and words to better understand their meaning. 

• I am still working to help the students find a "good fit book" for each of them to read at school and at home.  If you notice your child is reading a book that seems too challenging for him/her, please drop me an e-mail.  It is so important for the students to be reading books at their reading level, so they can grow as a reader.

Writing Workshop:

• The students are carefully studying well written personal narratives, Fireflies and Owl Moon.  These two mentor texts will help the students as they begin writing a personal narrative.

• We will continue working with the 4 types of sentences this week (declarative, imperative, exclamatory and interrogative).  After playing 4 Corners with the sentence types last week, they are becoming sentence experts!

Math:

• This week the students will be working with addition and subtraction as they review the properties of addition, identify patterns in addition and estimate sums and differences by rounding

• Students who did not pass the 4's multiplication text on Friday will retake it on Wednesday.  The students will be tested over  5's on Friday!  They should be practicing their facts every evening.

Science:

• We will continue talking about plate tectonics this week as the students look more closely at volcanoes and complete a fun activity on Mysteryscience.com.

• The students will be given a review over the layers of the Earth, Pangaea and plate tectonics on Tuesday and will be tested over the material on Thursday.  They will have their notes and review to help prepare for the test. 

Homework

Reading: Read 20 minutes and record on your reading log

Math:  Complete the edpuzzle.com
             4's fact test tomorrow!

Homework

Reading: Read 20 minutes and record on reading log

Math: test tomorrow - place value
            watch video on edpuzzle.com and answer the questions at the end of the video.

Have your parents complete the Reading Questionnaire for tomorrow:)  Thank you.

Homework

Reading:  Read 20 minutes and record on your reading log
                  Have parents complete the Reading Questionnaire - due Thursday

Math:  Study your review - TEST tomorrow:)
             Practice 4's facts

What's Happening in Room 34.....

Important Announcements:

• A Parent Reading Interview will be coming home on Tuesday.  Please take a couple minutes to share your thoughts on your child's reading habits and interests.  This information will better help me understand your child as a reader as I guide them in reading this year.

• The students completed their 1st Weekly Reflection on Friday.  Please review it with your child, sign both sides and return on Tuesday.  They will receive a Weekly Reflection every Monday morning to record their nightly reading at home.  It should stay in their folder all week so they can complete their reflection at school on Friday. 

Dates to Remember:

Wednesday:  Math Test 

What's Happening in Our Room....

Reading Workshop:

• The students will continue to work on their reading stamina in the classroom. Our goal is for the students to read and stay focused in their chapter book while I work with reading groups and confer with students about their book during independent reading.

• I am still working to help the students find a "good fit book" for each of them to read at school and at home.  If you notice your child is reading a book that seems too challenging for him/her, please drop me an e-mail.  It is so important for the students to be reading books at their reading level, so they can grow as a reader.

• This week, the students will be introduced to the book, The Tiger Rising.  It is a wonderful book that we will be reading together in class as we practice book discussions with our peers.  The students will also be studying the characters of the book as they learn how to "walk in the shoes of the characters". 

Writing Workshop:

• The students will finish their paragraph, "The Best Part of Me" this week, and it will be made into a class book for others to enjoy.

• We will begin studying a couple mentor texts, Owl Moon and Fireflies, as we begin writing a personal narrative.  The students will take notice of what makes a good personal narrative.

Math:

• The students are doing a WONDERFUL job reading numbers up to a hundred million! They are working hard in math and I love seeing their progress. 

• We will review place value on Tuesday and the students will be tested on Wednesday.  The students will come home with the review to look over Tuesday evening. 

• The students will be tested over the 3's or 4's on Friday!  They should be practicing their facts every evening.

Science:

• The students will be learning about Pangaea and plate tectonics this week as they do a fun investigation demonstrating what happens when the plates of the Earth move.