WEEK35 - MAY 14 - 17, 2012
- Created on Monday, 14 May 2012 04:41
- Written by Gayle Berger
MATH: Chapter 7: 7-1,7-2, 7-3, 7-4; Division- using patterns to divide, estimating quotients, dividing with remainders, two-digit quotients.
SPELLING: Our list this week is aquarium words, terms: species, Catfish, Amazon, Piranha, Mango Puffer, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, tropical, Sawfish, Green Sea Turtle, Sandbar Shark, Horseshoe Crab, salinity, tentacles, Sea Anemone, octopus, seadragon, Spotted Eagle Ray, Bonnethead Shark, acrylic
LANGUAGE ARTS: Dolphin Adventure book,work on study guide for review, for test on Tuesday. Student to construct and write a thank you note to Ripley's Aquarium Education Guides, Kristen and Dominic.
LANGUAGE ARTS: Back to our writing workshop: lessons, 6-9: Finding & crafting thesis statements, boxes & bullets: framing essays, learning to outgrow a first thesis, composing & sorting mini-stories.
TESTS THIS WEEK: DOLPHIN ADVENTURE TEST, TUESDAY, 5/15; SPELLING TEST, THURS. 5/17.
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: With Ms. Freddie and Mrs. Rowland: REMINDER TO PARENTS, FOR TUESDAY, 5/15, WE WILL BE GOING TO THE GREYHOUND BUS STATION AND HANDING OUT THE FOLLOWING ITEMS THAT YOUR STUDENT VOLUNTEERED TO BRING IN:
- ETHAN: 1 BAG CHIPS, 1 WATER BOTTLE
- BENTON: 1 PKG COOKIES, 1 STUFFED ANIMAL
- SAMANTHA B. : 1 PKG. COOKIES
- ZOE: 1 FLOWER
- CAYDEN: 2-3 WATER BOTTLES
- CYMON: COOKIES & WATER
- COLE: $10. CASH
- KATIE: 1 BOOK
- ISABELLA: 1 FOOD ITEM OR 1 WATER BOTTLE
- SARAI: 1 BAG APPLES
- MATTHEW: 1 BAG OF SOMETHING SWEET
- RACHEL: 1 STUFFED ANIMAL
- SAMANTHA L. 1 PKG. CANDY
WEEK 27 - MARCH 19 - 23, 2012
- Created on Monday, 19 March 2012 14:32
- Written by Gayle Berger
MATH: Lessons 5-6, 5-7, 5-8, 5-9: multiply 3-digit numbers by 1 digit numbers, problem-solving skill; try, check and revise; choose a computation method; and multiplying money. Also we are continuing to do timed multiplication tests. this review helps the students to learn their times tables!
GRAMMAR: Adjectives: workbook pages 94-101. moving right along!
LANGUAGE ARTS: Open Court Anthology story: "Messages by the Mile", TEST TUESDAY, 3/20. REVIEW SHEET SENT HOME. We will work on the "Whalesong" poety piece this week and learn to write a poem.
WRITING WORKSHOP: We will continue to work daily on writing essays: learning strategies for developing essay stories, narrative and non-narrative structures, using conversational prompts, and generating essay writing from narrative writing. These students are AWESOME WRITERS PARENTS!
OTHER THINGS: PARENTS: PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL'S TONIGHT FOR ADDITIONAL INFO. ON OUR AQUARIUM TRIP!!! WE ARE EXCITED. I AM GEARING OUR LANGUAGE ARTS STORIES TOWARD OCEANOGRAPHY THEMES TO HELP US GET READY. THE CHILDREN WILL HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION FOR THE TRIP AND THE VISIT TO THE HUNTINGTON BEACH STATE PARK. THANKS AGAIN! GAYLE BERGER
