Week 3 – September 7, 2010

Week three…

 

With Tuesday off a long weekend, it was a day of compact learning.

 

Technology lab – let's see…my website wasn't loading, my delicious account wasn't loading, they couldn't get into typing, furthermore they tried to log in and take an AR/STAR test and it said their accounts were set up yet. It is just great times being in a computer room with 25 excited students and various computer challenges occurring at the same time. Thankfully the www.pearsonsuccessnet.com worked wonderfully. Students were able to begin taking the chapter 2 pretest. Upon finishing the students are able to go back and either 1. Work on the lessons they missed questions on or 2. Work on challenging work based on their mastery of the skill in the pretest.

 

Language Arts:

Spelling pretest -- http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t01_02.html

 

Reviewing what this week's story is all about… ..a storm chaser. We talked about our classroom schema. We talked about what a cool job that would be. We also reviewed the key vocabulary for this story: pb 23

 

Math:

Lesson 2-4 adding and subtracting larger numbers.

The big lesson that we covered was reviewing the style of "decomposing" your numbers. In 5^th grade terms – writing out the words in expanded form. Once laid out in expanded form they may add or subtract the numbers. We also did the "Burger King" method where you can decompose the number into parts that help you most successfully add or subtract. They should 3 examples of what I am talking about written in their math notebook.

Students were given 20 minutes to begin working on tonight's math homework.

 

Language Arts again –

Students were given 25 minutes to begin reading this week's story. They were able to work in pairs, read, ask questions and refer to this week's PB work.

Conjunctions – we discussed the main ones – but, and, or, that, yet, nor, and however

We also watched Conjunction Junction What's Your Function.

 

We used the final 15 minutes before lunch to write down the homework for the week into their day planners. We also discussed about planning their week out since it is only a three evening week. I also explained that we will be using class time to resolve some of this work.

 

They ended the day with PE.

 

Homework for the week:

Math

Due on Wednesday:

Page 35 7-18 all ** must use the expanded form on at least a 1/3^rd of them

Page 35 1-6 OR page 36 19-25

Due on Thursday:

Page 38 9-26 all**must use the expanded form on at least 1/3^rd of them

Page 38 1-8 all OR 39 27-33 all

Due on Friday:

Page 40-41 9-23 all** must use the expanded form on at least 1/3^rd of them

40 1-8 all OR 24-27 all

FYI – page 46-47 1-14 all due on Tuesday 9/14 and Chapter 2 test will be given on 9/14

 

Vocab due Thursday

http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t01_02.html

Define and use in a sentence the 5 challenge words. Plus p.b. 23,28 and 32

 

Free-write: due Thursday

"I need to get this off my chest….."

 

Grammar due Friday

P.B. 33,34, and 35 Conjunctions, combining sentences and correcting run-ons

 

Reading Comprehension questions due Friday:

Read 54-76 ; P.B. 24 and 25; and page 76 Student chooses which 3 questions to answer but must be complete sentences.

 

Free-write due Friday: "When Mother Nature gets upset….."

 

**I will put out an update with the Back to School Files..I have them on my flash drive and it is at home.