November BLOG- 2021

Halloween Party Pictures

10/29

Thanks to all of our volunteers!!!

 

Art Class-Day of the Dead Artwork

Storybook Pumpkins

Working Hard in Class

Halloween Candy Collected for the Troops

Congrats, Dominic for being our October PRIDE! Winner!

A Look Ahead:

November 22-26--Thanksgiving Break

Thursday, November 25--HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Tuesday, December 7--Fall Picture Retakes

Tuesday, December 14--CCSD66 Board of Ed Meeting 7:00 PM

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

This week 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.  We will also be watching Inside Out and discuss how this relates to our topic of STRONG EMOTIONS!

Reading - Unit 1 - "Courage"
The next story that we will read in the Courage unit is a biographical piece about baseball player Lou Gehrig. 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.

Social Studies - "The Cherokee"
We will continue our study of the Native Americans of the Southeast, The Cherokee. We will take a look at how their culture and traditions began and how they continue to keep them alive in modern times.

The Chapter 6, Lessons 1, 2, 3 and Chapter 7, Lesson 1 TEST will be on Friday, 11/19!  Students may use their book and notes for this TEST!

Science - Energy Conversions

We will study of how to design a wind turbine.  The students will use criteria to build and design and then redesign their wind turbines.  They will go through a "design cycle" with their creation.  In the cycle we will talk about Learning, Planning, Designing and Testing.  

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Unit 2:  Multi-Digit Multiplication & Early Division

Here is an overview of Unit 2.  The highlighted areas are the focus of the week!

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