Headlines, September 7

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I hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day and had time to relax with friends and family.  The week went very quickly in our classroom and we covered a lot in our four days together!

Math:  Last week we continued our unit on estimation. We discussed multiplying and dividing with powers of ten and practiced prime factorization.  This week we will review the unit and test over the material and then move on to order of operation.   

Language Arts: We will finish Prince Caspian on Monday and are very excited to begin our first Literature study of Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  Please double check with your student to be sure that they have a copy of the book AT SCHOOL!  In writing we worked on summarizing longer passages, and the class seems to be really grasping how to do this.  They will complete a final draft of a passage next week and will begin discussing how to outline.  In grammar we have started punctuation rules and this will continue into this week. 

 Spalding:  We are continuing setting up our notebooks and reviewing phonograms and rules.  As a team the fifth grade classes are hoping to complete laying this foundation as soon as possible so that we are able to begin our spelling lists.  I will keep you up to date on our progress.

 Science: Everyone is enjoying our unit on chemistry.  Last week we learned about The Periodic Table, atoms, and had a presentation by a very knowledgeable water expert (My dad!).  It was great for our scholars to see how science is used in our everyday lives.  Next, we will finish our unit on chemistry, completing some fun experiments and looking at the atom models.

 History: Our focus last week was the Mayans, we learned about their daily lives and history, and I loved the students Pok-ta-Pok cards!  We will study the Aztecs next week and learn about their culture.

Reminders:

Atom projects are due Tuesday, please remember that these are to be student completed and should be the Bohr Model.  We discussed how to do this in class, but please let me know if you have any questions!

 

Important Dates:

 

  Progress Reports sent home: Friday, Sept. 12

  Spalding and Singapore Night: September 17th, 6-8 pm