Friday, October 21, 2016

October 24-29

The Periodic Table of Elements---What was your presentation about?
















Congrats, Mr. Pagel!  You are an ALL-Star Educator!!!





Happy Birthday, Evelyn!  
Thanks for donating a book for your birthday!



October Session of Preschool Reading Buddies!!!

















The Spakausky Family's new addition...Meet Rosie!
12 weeks old.




Coming up next:

Dates:
October

28:  BOOK PROJECT Summary due
31:  Halloween Parties 1:15
Parade 2:10

November
Conferences the week of October 31st-November 4


Reading: Close Reading
We will continue to practice close reading skills, as we head into Unit 1-Challenges-of our ELA Unit!  The students will learn about text marking and reading deeper to help with understanding of complex texts.   The students will read the book Teammates by Peter Goldenbock.  We will talk about the challenges people faced during the 1960's and how one person in particular handled it.  His name was Jackie Robinson.

Language skills:  Synonyms and Antonyms 


Social Studies: Chapter 5-"The Struggle to Found Colonies"

Lesson 1-1607-Jamestown-The first permanent English colony is started in North America.
Lesson 2-1609-Hudson River-Henry Hudson explores for the Dutch.
Lesson 3-1620-Plymouth-The Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower.
Lesson 4-1682-Philadelphia-Pennsylvania colony is founded.


Science: Chapter 14-States of Matter

We started reading Lesson 1 in our States of Matter Chapter.  Ask your child what they have lear ed so far.

We will be covering:

Lesson 1-What is the Structure of Matter?
We will identify some physical properties of matter, define matter, atoms and molecules and relate the three states of matter to the arrangement and movement of particles.

We have dug deeper and we are learning about the Periodic Table.  Each student is completing a poster project in class about an element.  Ask your child about it.  What are their requirements and expectations?

Lesson 2-What Are Physical Properties and Changes?
We will be describing three states of matter, explain density and how it relates to volume and compare and contrast mixtures and solutions.

Lesson 3-What are Chemical Properties and Changes?
We will define chemical change, compare chemical changes, and explain how matter is conserved when a chemical change occurs.


Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class:  Unit 1:  Expressions, Equations and Volume
Module 1-Multiplication and Volume
Module 2-Factors, Multiples, and the Associative Property
Module 3-Multiplication Strategies
Module 4-From Multiplication to Division (with remainders)


Our unit 1 test will most likely by Friday, October 24th!



Have an AWESOME weekend!

Spakausky's Scoop Oct. 16th

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