Happy Boss's Day, Mr. Pagel!!
Coming up next:
Dates:
Tues., Oct. 21-PIZZA PARTY for class-Winners of most Box Tops!!! YAAHHH!!!
Tues., Oct. 21-Book Project Summaries are due
November 1 deadline-Box Tops
It is almost time to turn in those Box Tops and Labels for Education labels. Please bring in anything you have so we can collect next week.
ELA-Word Work/Spelling: Lesson 3 in Wordly Wise-
Monday-Words received and first assignment-due Tuesday.
Tuesday-2nd assignment given and due Wed.
Tuesday-2nd assignment given and due Wed.
Wednesday-3rd assignment given/reading-due Friday.
Friday-TEST on Word definitions
ELA-English: Chapter 1-"The Sentence"
Friday-TEST on Word definitions
ELA-English: Chapter 1-"The Sentence"
Chapter 1-Discussions and Quizzes over the following concepts:
*What is a Sentence?
*Four Kinds of Sentences
*Subjects and Predicates
*Subjects in Imperatives
*Conjunctions
*Run-on Sentences
ELA-Reading: Challenges
Next, we will read about a Native American boy, called Slow and talk about his challenges and how they relate back to our 3 essential questions in reading. This story is in our anthology.
1) How can challenges affect yourself and those around you?
2) How do characters, real or fiction, respond to challenges in positive and negative ways?
3) How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?
Lesson 1-Jamestown 1607
Lesson 2-Hudson River-1609
Lesson 3-Plymouth-1620
Lesson 4-Philadelphia-1682
Science: Chapter 5-Ecosystems
We will move to "Energy and Ecosystems" next. In this chapter we will answer the following essential questions:
How Do Plants Produce Food? and How Is Energy Passed Through an Ecosystem?
We will learn about transpiration, photosynthesis, chlorophyll, producers and consumers in lesson 1 and ecosystems, herbivores, carnivores, food chains, decomposes, food webs and energy pyramids in lesson 2.
Changed to TEST-Chapter 5-Tuesday, October 21st!
Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Chapter 5-
Common Core Standards: 5.NBT.4-Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place
5.NBT.7-Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
We will begin chapter 5 next. This chapter will focus on:
*Round Decimals
*Estimate Sums and Differences
*Problem Solving:Estimating or Exact Answers
* Adding Decimals
*Addition Properties (Associative, Commutative, and Identity Properties)
*Subtract Decimals
