Spakausky's Scoop Oct. 16th

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SEL Update:

There will not be a formal Second Step lesson this week. Instead, we will spend our morning meetings doing team-building activities. We will also be practicing more "Calm Classroom" breathing techniques.  

 We will review the topics that have been taught since the beginning of the year which include empathy, listening with attention, being assertive, and respecting similarities and differences.

Reading - Unit 1 - Theme: "Come to Your Senses"

This week we will:

Read and study vocabulary in the story

Genre: Infographic

*"What are the Five Senses"

Skill focus:

*Connect and Teach:  Finding the Central Idea as we read

*Engage and Respond to the text

Big Idea Words:

*perception

*aroma

*distinguish 

*tactile

Social Studies  - Chapter 4-"Land and Water in the Northeast"

We will complete our study of the NE region with a look at the Native Americans of the area, the Narragansetts. Our focus will be on the culture and traditions of the group and how they have changed over time. 

Our Chapter 4, Lessons 1,2,3 and Chapter 5, Lesson 1 only TEST will be on Friday, 10/20!

Science: Mystery Science

Lesson 2 is on "Light, Eyes and Vision." 

What do people who are blind see?

I can statements for the first part of the lesson:

I can describe the different parts of the eye. 

I can discover how eyes work.

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