Week 3 – Thursday, September 09, 2010

Today….

We started the day with Language Arts and homework time. Students were given 60 minutes to either work on the comprehension work due on Friday, Practice Book work due on Friday, study spelling/vocab or read independently.

We reviewed the five vocabulary words that will be tested tomorrow. I'm on the fence how to penalize the FIVE students that forgot, misplaced or simply didn't do their vocabulary work. We then review the definitions and the sentences as a class which makes "turning it in late" somewhat unnecessary. I am leaning towards a Friday party.

Math:

Lesson 2-6

Subtracting with decimals.

We tried our darndest as a class and we decided to not make decomposing of numbers (aka Burger King Method) mandatory for tonight's homework. When you end up decomposing a "one" into tenths, hundredths, and thousandths, you end up doing standard borrowing like things so just subtract "old-school" style.

Homework: page 40-41 9-23 plus either 40 1-8 all OR 41 24-27 all

Students were given 30 minutes to work on tonight's homework.

 

Science book walkthrough – this was a continuation of yesterday's team work with discovering how a typical non-fiction text book is laid out. So the students worked in teams of three doing a textbook scavenger hunt.

Then we had rotations again today…students went to Mrs. Cargo's for cursive practice.

Then they went to Mrs. Wilmot's for science. They were assigned more flash cards. I have a cache of flashcards so please do NOT purchase more flash cards. Your child can have a pack to keep at home if that helps. Please see Mrs. Wilmot's or Mrs. Cargo's website if you need more instruction about their homework.

    Homework due Friday:

Math

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

Due on Friday:

Page 40-41 9-23 all

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 and Spelling test is Friday

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

 

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….."

Have a great evening.

Mr. Hubbard