November 2nd, 2012
Class activities for Friday, November 2
Spelling: None today.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays. This week’s assignment will be due on Monday.
Reading: Students continued to work on Literature Circles projects to share their books with the class.
Writing: Today was a publishing day in writing.
The next piece of writing, a fiction story, will be due on Monday, November 26.
Math: We continued to practice multiplying by using the distributive property to break larger numbers into pieces. Today, students used the grid method to multiply using the distributive property. Here’s an example of the grid method.
To multiply 34 × 13, break the problem into (30 + 4) x (10 + 3):
30 4 10 300 40 3 90 12
Then, add the partial products: 300 + 90 + 40 + 12 = 442. Homework is to finish Journal P3-5 started in class.
Science: We wrote notes about the respiratory system. Homework is to finish the Breathtaking System page.
Social Studies: We started a unit on European explorers. Today we thought about all the tools involved in planning and taking a trip, and how hard it would have been for the explorers to travel without a lot of the tools we have today.
- Yellow magnets: 4
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 7
Coming soon: Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at ParentVue to see if your student moved their magnet.
Notes:
- Sign up, view or edit your Fall Parent Teacher Conference time.
- Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
- Coming soon: view grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue.
Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.
