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A Look Ahead:
Tuesday, December 7--Fall Picture Retakes
Tuesday, December 14--CCSD66 Board of Ed Meeting 7:00 PM
Monday, December 13-17-SPIRIT WEEK
Monday - Have an “Attitude of Gratitude” Day
Tuesday - Beat the chill with your favorite Hawaiian/Tropical shirt
Wednesday - Winter Hat/Flannel Day
Thursday - Cozy up to winter with your PJ’s and slippers
Friday - National Ugly Sweater Day
Friday, December 17-Holiday Parties
Monday, December 20-Friday, December 31--Winter Break
Monday, January 3--School Resumes
Monday, January 17--Martin Luther King Jr. Day--NO SCHOOL
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) - Emotion Management
During December we will continue to discuss emotion management. We will discuss that when you have strong feelings, it's hard to think clearly and how unmanaged, strong emotions can lead to negative behavior and consequences. The objective is for students to be able to describe what triggers their own strong emotions and what happens in their brains and bodies when they experience strong emotions. In addition, we will learn about how to calm down when you are experiencing strong feelings.
Reading - Unit 1 - "Courage"
We have been learning about how Lou Gehrig has shown Courage. While studying this text, we will continue to hone our close reading skills and focus on identifying statements that are facts and statements that are opinions. Students will work in small groups to respond to text-dependent questions and there will also be vocabulary work. We have been practicing our extended responses (R.A.C.E.S.) with information from the text. Students have to answer questions and cite evidence from the text to support their answer.
Students will complete the Lou Gehrig assessment with a RACES response in Formative. They will be tested on vocabulary and comprehension. This will be on Tuesday, Nov. 30th!
Students will also be learning about the skill of identifying text structure. Writers use different structures to build their ideas. Each text structure communicates ideas in a different way. Types of text structure are:
*Chronological order to explain how things happen in order.
*Compare and contrast
*Causes and effects-authors use words like cause, effect, as a result, consequently, and so
*Problem-Solution- Sometimes, an author will want to explain a problem, and then show one or more solutions.
*Description-This text structure is used to describe a location, idea, or event.
.Social Studies - Midwest Region of the U.S.A.
We are leaving the Southeast and traveling to the central part of the United States. The students will learn the states of the Midwest. We will study chapter 8, "Water and Land of the Midwest" in our social studies book. The 3 lessons are as follows:
Lesson 1: "A Route to the Sea"
*We will learn about the Great Lakes and how they link the Midwest Region to the Gulf of Mexico and to the Atlantic Ocean.
Lesson 2: "The Badlands of South Dakota"
*We will focus on how erosion has shaped the South Dakota Badlands.
Lesson 3: "Bountiful Midwest Farms"
*The main idea in this lesson will be about how the Midwest is one of the world's leading farming regions.
Science - Energy Conversions
We are still doing our deep study of Blackouts and Ergstown. We are interpreting weather reports to see what the best alternate energy source might be (solar panels or wind turbines) based on certain criteria.
We will continue to gather evidence from our resource books and develop good arguments based on that evidence.
We will learn about system failures and reasons that failures may happen. Students will make a functioning system and then find a way to cause it to fail.
We will finally be discussing solutions to Ergstown's Blackout problem. We’ll consider possible solutions and how well each meets the criteria. We’ll also refer to the System Improvements Report.
Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Unit 2: Multi-Digit Multiplication & Early Division
THE UNIT 2 TEST will be on WED. 12/1!
Module 1
Building Multiplication Arrays
Session 1 The Great Wall of Base Ten
Session 2 Unit 2 Pre-Assessment
Session 3 Metric Units of Linear & Area Measurement
Session 4 Multiplying by Ten
Session 5 Building Multiplication Arrays
Module 2
Arrays & Ratio Tables
Session 1 Sketching Multiplication Arrays
Session 2 Quick Sketches & Strategies
Session 3 Multiplying by Ten, One Hundred & One Thousand
Session 4 Building Ratio Tables
Session 5 Multiplying Single Digits by Multiples of Ten
Module 3
Multiplication Stories & Strategies
Session 1 Multiplication Story Problems
Session 2 Multiplication Story Problems
Session 3 Doubling & Halving
Session 4 Multiplying with Money& Units of Metric Measure
Session 5 Another Look at Multiplication Strategies
Module 4
Early Division with Remainders
Session 1 A Remainder of One
Session 2 What Can You Do with the Remainder?
Session 3 Remainders Win
Session 4 Multiplication & Division
Session 5 Unit 2 Post-Assessment
Unit 3 will be next! Here is an overview of this unit!
Fractions & Decimals
In this unit your child will:
❚ Compare fractions with like and unlike
denominators
❚ Locate fractions on a number line
❚ Add and subtract fractions with like
and unlike denominators
❚ Identify equivalent fractions and decimals
❚ Compare decimal numbers
