Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Still too many ants, so please remind your son/daughter to bring home their lunches.

We started off the day with the library. Students continue enjoying the book that they are reading. It involves a young boy learner financial concepts while working for his friend and himself. It has a ton of jokes so it keeping their attention.

 

We came back and students were allowed to either read their newly checked out books, read Volcanoes, work on practice book, study science flashcards or study challenge words.

    We reviewed this week's grammar lessons on plural nouns and more specific nouns. We discussed many examples. Students were strongly encouraged to copy down the challenging plural noun rules.

    Math time – we discussed the distributive property in full detail. We also discussed Commutative
property and associative property. The distributive property will be super important and emphasized as we go forward since it a key concept in effectively multiplying and adding successfully.

http://www.aaamath.com/pro74bx2.htm

http://www.math.unt.edu/mathlab/emathlab/distributive_property_of_multipl.htm

    This allows students to have more options when dealing with larger multiplication. Heck, I have had success with some of the students that struggle with 8*8 or 9*6 –they can decompose one of the numbers into numbers that they can more easily multiply/add.

    After math we reviewed the challenge word vocabulary and their sentences. Students did a great job this week of completing this assignment and bringing it to school!!

    Rotations – they rotate to Mrs. Cargo's class. http://dusd.schoolwires.net/224720722164552217/site/default.asp

    They rotated into science, the test will be tomorrow. So they better have those 19 flashcards memorized. "Remember – repeat to remember and remember to repeat" http://www.brainrules.net/short-term-memory

http://www.brainrules.net/long-term-memory

http://dusd.schoolwires.net/224720722164555580/site/default.asp (this Mrs. Wilmott's link)

 

Photo day is tomorrow!! Students brought home the envelope on Monday. Hopefully it made it to you. If you don't have one, bring your checkbook and stop off in the front office for an extra envelope. Photos are circa 11:15 for our class.

    Have a great Wednesday night.

 

Homework for the week:

Photo Day is 9/16/2010 around 11:15'ish;

 

Math:

Due Thursday Page 54-55 7-18 plus 1-6 OR 19-23

Due Friday pages 57-58 5-27 **11 of the multiplication problems must be decomposed.

 

Free-Write due Friday – this week a true free-write; write about whatever you want

Grammar Work due Thursday – P.B. 48, 49, and 50

Science due Thursday – 20 flash cards written out and the test is Thursday

Social Studies due Wednesday 9/22 read pages 155-162

Due Friday -- Language Arts Comprehension:

Read 78-100

On page 100 – you choose 3 questions and answer them in complete sentences

P.B. 39/40