Practicing Listening Skills with Simon Says
Working with Partners in math and science....What fun!
Coming up:
Important Dates:
Monday, October 11--NO SCHOOL-Columbus Day/Indigenous People Day
Tuesday, October 12--NO SCHOOL--P/T Conference
Wednesday, October 13--EARLY DISMISSAL 11:30 AM--SIP Day
SEL Update:
Concepts Objectives—
Being assertive means asking for what you want or need in a calm, firm, respectful voice.
Being assertive helps you be successful in a variety of social and academic situations.
Being assertive means asking for what you want or need in a calm, firm, respectful voice.
Being assertive helps you be successful in a variety of social and academic situations.
Students will be able to:
Identify passive, aggressive, and assertive responses.
Demonstrate assertive responses with their partners.
Assertiveness Skills -
• Face the person you’re talking to.
• Keep your head up and shoulders back.
• Use a calm, firm voice.
• Use respectful words.
Demonstrate assertive responses with their partners.
Assertiveness Skills -
• Face the person you’re talking to.
• Keep your head up and shoulders back.
• Use a calm, firm voice.
• Use respectful words.
Reading - Unit 1 - "Courage"
Next week's task in reading will be to close read the fiction piece titled, Happy Birthday Dr. King. Students will work in small groups to answer text-dependent questions and to use context clues to find meanings of unknown words. They will also be creating a digital notebook of vocabulary words for the story.
Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class
The students will investigate factors and factor pairs for numbers between 1 and 100. They will multiply using the commutative property.They will determine whether a whole number between 1-100 is a prime or composite number. The students will also review the strategies they used to solve basic multiplication facts.
Module 1-Models for Multiplication and Division-T
Module 2-Primes and Composites
Module 3-Multiplicative Comparisons and Equations
Module 4-Measurement Experiences (linear measurement, mass/weight, volume and capacity)
Social Studies - Chapter 4-"Land and Water in the Northeast"
We will continue our study of the Northeast. This week we will finish talking about Chesapeake Bay and begin talking about the first people to settle in this area: the Narragansett.
There will be a Chapter 4 (lesson 1, 2, 3) and Chapter 5 (lesson 1 only) TEST by the end of this week or beginning of next.
Lesson 1-The Beautiful Northeast-incredible scenery and magnificent natural formations
Lesson 2-Resources of the Northeast-products for the world
Lesson 3-The Plentiful Sea-Chesapeake Bay and other bays in the NE
Science: Energy and Electrical Systems
We started our first in science on energy and electrical systems. Students will learn about the fictitious town of Ergstown and problem solve about why they keep having blackouts.
