Class info Sept 22

sorry for the lack of a post the last couple of work days, I got my first cold of the year!

Math

Worked through intensive studies of decimals - how to round and compare them (essentially pages 24 - 29 of our math common core series).  It's important that students visualize what hundredths and thousandths actually are

Language Arts

Week 2 of our writing project.  A reading log went home.  I'll assign spelling words and vocabulary tomorrow officially, but the spelling words are on page 16 and the vocabulary words are crusaded, faze, eccentric, relented, impassable, infuriated, disheartened

Science

Studied the subdivisions of categorization of organisms (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species).  These are on pages 48-49


Picture Day is Wednesday, which is a free dress day.

Class info Sept 17

Today we had a Constitution Day assembly, so classes in the morning were abbreviated.

Language Arts

Started a free writing assignment.  Played a game titled "two true one false", shared from Author's Chair

Math

Quick review of decimals, rounding, exponents, powers of 10

Science

Read about the classification of organisms into different kingdoms,  Students are expected to have previous content from lessons one and two mastered

Class info Sept 16

Math

Reviewed powers of ten and place value heavily today.  The web site I listed in my last post has tons of games to play for these topics.

Language Arts

We started silent writing today.  We're starting a three week or so unit on basic writing.  The final product will be an essay of their choice.  As we go through the process, I'll keep you updated.

GREAT common core site for extra assistance

http://www.adaptedmind.com/Math-Worksheets.html?gclid=CIurwMeF5cACFRaSfgodknsA_w

Class info Sept 15

Math

Worked on common core math lessons involving powers of 10.  There's no additional homework assigned, but you can always research place value and powers of 10 for 5th graders online.  There's plenty out there to help with the common core curriculum.

Language Arts

New spelling words, new vocabulary, new reading log

Science

Took notes on p. 38-40, taking students from cells to tissues to organs to organ systems.  Students should also know the definition of an organism, and know what the basic life processes are (growth, response, reproduction, excretion, nutrition, respiration)

i-ready info

Today we sent home a flyer that needs to be returned.  It has our email addresses, the blog address and information about i-ready.

We are expecting that four iready lessons are done online per week - two in language arts, two in math.  iready is a program that your child has already been diagnosed on and has lessons tailor-made for your child.

Log in at

login.i-ready.com

Your child has their log in and password information on a sticker attached to the flier.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Class info Sept 12

Math

Not much to report today.  We went over place values (tenth, hundredth, thousandth) in great detail