Our class sold the MOST magazines--Hooray!!
We played Mario Kart today, in a special assembly!
Snack are low: If you would like to send in any snacks for our snack basket, super!!!
Help:
Stickers: I love stickers! If you find yourself at the store and would like to contribute to our sticker collection, GREAT!!!
Goody Basket items: We could also use some goody basket items. The Dollar Store or 5 Below are some great places for deals :)
Thanks!!!
Coming up next:
Dates:
Mon., Oct. 13-No School-Columbus Day
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:
No work next week!
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
Today we discussed the first UNSUCCESSFUL colony started by England.
We discussed Roanoke Colony and the students started watching a super interesting documentary. If they want to finish it at home, super. Here is the link. Bonus Points, if they do. Just have your parents sign your homework assignment book saying you watched it.
ENJOY!
This documentary investigates the roots of England's first permanent colony, who three years after landing, vanished.
In 1587, over 100 settlers landed in the New World to establish England's first permanent colony. Three years later, they had vanished... Josh Bernstein is on the trail of America's oldest missing-persons case. He flies high above Roanoke Island in a powered para-glider; climbs and cores a cypress tree to study the climate conditions the settlers faced; participates in an American-Indian powwow; and learns to cook as the local 16th-century natives once did. Finally, Josh travels back to England to trace the roots of a family that could be descendants of the Roanoke colony. Using DNA science, he makes a groundbreaking discovery - and, amazingly, it suggests that one of the 1587 lost colonists may have survived.
In 1587, over 100 settlers landed in the New World to establish England's first permanent colony. Three years later, they had vanished... Josh Bernstein is on the trail of America's oldest missing-persons case. He flies high above Roanoke Island in a powered para-glider; climbs and cores a cypress tree to study the climate conditions the settlers faced; participates in an American-Indian powwow; and learns to cook as the local 16th-century natives once did. Finally, Josh travels back to England to trace the roots of a family that could be descendants of the Roanoke colony. Using DNA science, he makes a groundbreaking discovery - and, amazingly, it suggests that one of the 1587 lost colonists may have survived.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUkuZTHQ7Zo
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.
TEST-Chapter 5-Friday, October 17th!
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
