Week of October 5th-9th

Early Release will take place this Wednesday, October 7th.

Wish List: Treat jar candy, this is the perfect time of year to buy individually wrapped candy with all of the Halloween candy out in stores!  If you are able, please consider purchasing a bag!  Thank you!

Please continue to send in box tops!

Academics:

ELA:

I have been VERY IMPRESSED with our writing this week!  Students are reading and responding to text dependent questions and are improving daily! Way to go! Ask your students about TOP QUALITY work!

We will have a new RRJ due this week as well as a social studies assignment from the text book.  Students can bring these home to finish if they do not finish in class.  Students can also bring home their "workbooks" to study vocabulary words!

We are continuing our novel study of Espiranza Rises.  Please consider purchasing your child a copy of the book from Barnes and Noble or Amazon.  It really does help them to have their own copy to annotate or catch up when they are absent!  It is a fabulous book and we are really enjoying it so far!

Math: 
We have now moved into Module 2: we will look at lessons 5, 6, 7, & 9 this week.  We will look at solving multiplication problems by using an area model.  This concept was covered last year in 4th grade so hopefully it will be a review!  We will spend a few days on the area model before moving on to the standard algorithm.  We will be relating both of these skills to solving word problems.  I will post the lesson videos at the bottom of this blog post!

Science:
We are moving on to discuss weather by looking at the water cycle.  We will discuss various topics: clouds, climate, the ocean.  This will be discussed in Chapters 3 & 4 in our Interactive Science textbook.

Consider visiting the website below to explore and interact with the water cycle:

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle-kids.html

Resources:
Tuesday- Music
Wednesday- Music (early release)
Friday- P.E.

Monday's Math Video Share: Module 2 Lesson 5:

Tuesday's Math Video: Module 2 Lesson 6:

Thursday's Math Lesson: Module 2 Lesson 7:

Friday's Math Lesson: Module 2 Lesson 9: