Tonight's Homework:
Fractions sheet
Holes- Read Chapter 45

Happy Monday!

Tonight's Homework:
Chronological Order: How to Adopt- This assignment is for ALL students unless stated otherwise in the agenda. Students must underline key words that show time, and must write in complete sentences.

Math- Equivalent Fractions

Here is a video on how to cross multiply, which we will be learning how to do this week.

Happy Friday!!!

We will have a test over sound/light vocabulary on Tuesday. We will play Jeopardy to review on Monday.
Please remember to turn in both field trip permission slips!

1/31 (Tuesday) Sound and Light Unit Test- Students will only be testing over the vocabulary for                                                                           both sound and light. 

Tonight's Homework:
Holes Chapter 44
Math- Do 1-10 on Fraction sheet. This was classwork. You do not need to work past #10!

Tonight's Homework:
Fraction sheet
Holes: Chapter 42

Remember to study the light study guide, as well as the figurative language study guide.

Tonight's Homework
Generating Equivalent Fractions
Holes: Chapter 41

Have a great night!

Tonight's Homework:
Fraction Sheet
Holes: Chapter 40

We are beginning our study on Figurative Language. Students received a study guide for figurative language today. We gave this study guide to all students, because they will be seeing this on the Milestone test, however, Read 180 students will not be tested over the material.

Mellow Mushroom Night! 5-8 at the Hiram location.

Homework:

Spelling test and sound quiz tomorrow


Holes- Read Chapter 36
Math- Equivalent Fractions (Do not do the back side) Rows A,G,M ONLY

Tonight's Homework:
Conceptua Assignment- If you had trouble logging in last night it is because your child did not log out of the session during class. Please remind them to log out after each session!
Holes- Read Chapter 35

Spelling Words

Field Trips!
We have several field trips coming up!
1/23- Ecoysystems Presentation (This is an in-school field trip...it is free and no permission is required.) The kids will be digging through dirt to find wiggly things while they learn about different ecosystems.

1/27- Cobb County Youth Museum- This is our FAVORITE field trip! The kids get to dress up and act out the important events of the Revolutionary War. This field trip costs $16 and kids have the option of sending in money for a souvenir. This form is coming home today, please read it carefully. Students will be back in time for lunch on this day.

2/14- Cobb Fire Safety Village- This is also a free field trip, however your child may choose to pay for a Chick-Fil-A lunch. PLEASE fill out the lunch form to let us know if your child will buy Chick-Fil-A, bring a lunch from home or buy a sack lunch from school.

We hope you had a wonderful long weekend!

Tonight's Homework:

Math- Log into Conceptuamath.com (The Customer name is: CCSD, the Username is s and sticknumber, for example: s123456 and the password is math)
Students will complete the assigned lesson. We practiced logging in and doing an assigned lesson in class today! Once students finish the assigned lesson, they may do fact fluency practice.

Holes: Read chapter 34

Looking ahead...

1/16- MLK Holiday- No school!
1/20- Spelling test and science quiz over all sound vocabulary and concepts (see study guide!)
1/20- Multicultural Night
1/23- Kemp Night at Mellow Mushroom in Hiram
1/27- Spirit Wear Day

Math: We are beginning our study of fractions with Equivalent Fractions! After a brief review of fraction vocabulary, we will begin identifying equivalent fractions and making equivalent fractions using, models,  multiplication, and division. We will learn how to find equivalent factors and how to write fractions in "simplest form" (also known as reducing fractions) using Greatest Common Factor (GCF). We will be gluing strategies and writing examples in our math journals! It would benefit each student to take home their math journals when doing homework.  That way they can refer back to examples we did in class as a reference; therefore, parents can also see the strategies we are using in class. Please make sure journals return to school each day! Below are some helpful videos for this standard. 

Equivalent Fractions

Khan Academy: Intro. to Equivalent Fractions

StudyJams: Equivalent Fractions

LearnZillion Videos: Fractions

Math Playground: Fractions

Adaptedmind: Fractions

Reading: We are still reading our extended text, Wonder by R.J Palacio. This text is rather long, and we will be well into the 3^rd nine weeks before we finish the book. We will be doing a variety of reading strategies and projects daily with the text. We have been working with context clues strategies. We focused on different strategies to use when reading to figure out unknown word meanings. Next week we will begin our study on poetry, drama and prose. Students will get a homework packet to go along with this. 

Writing: We are moving into the Opinion Writing genre. Students will be using a variety of topics to express their opinions and formulating strong arguments to write an opinion piece. 

Grammar: Next week we will focus on figurative language. We will specifically be determining the difference and meanings of similes and metaphors. We will have SMART Board lessons each day, and well as plenty of practice activities. Students will receive a study guide on Tuesday with all of the figurative language in our unit. We will eventually take a test over figurative language, so studying will be important! 

Science: Our next unit is the study of Sound and Light. We will really delve into this next week, beginning with sound. We sent home a study guide this week and we would like for students to go ahead and start studying the vocabulary for light and sound. Take a look at the videos below so that you will be familiar with the standards and vocabulary your child will be learning! 

Sound and Light Videos

Study Jams: Sound and Light

A few reminders:

*Please review your child's homework with them each night. PLEASE feel free to email us with any questions about how to help your child with his/her homework. It can be very confusing for students to learn how to solve a problem one way at school, and then a totally different way at home. If you need clarification or examples of how to use one of our strategies please let us know! 

*Make sure to check Synergy often for updated weekly grades.

*Please remember that Moby Max and First in Math are valuable tools your child can use for extra practice in all subject areas. Students have login information in the front of their agendas. 

Tonight's Homework:
Math word problems
Holes: Read chapter 30
Spelling test next Wednesday

For those of you who check the blog daily, thank you for being patient while Mrs. DuShane was out sick! 

This week we are focusing on context clues in reading, opinion writing, patterns in math and we are beginning our light and sound unit. Students are getting a study guide for light and sound today. The vocab is heavy for this science unit, so please make sure your child is studying a little bit each day. We will also have a spelling test next Wednesday. 

Tonight's Homework: 

Math- Patterns sheet

Holes- Read chapter 29