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Weekly Newsletter September 15-19
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What are we
doing this week?
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HORN
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This week in Math we will
talk about how large amounts of data are represented on a pictograph. We will
use our own data from class birthdays to create our own bar graph. We will
also talk about how to record large amounts of data on a bar graph. This
encourages students to focus on the scale and interval on a graph and know
why they are important. After a discussion on interval and scale, we will
create a bar graph for all of the birthdays on our Purple Hall at Paine
Intermediate. (This forces students to focus on how they will create a scale
and interval that will represent a large amount of data).
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Students have had the
chance to conduct two separate experiments using the Scientific method. Ask
them about the Gobstoppers! This week we will be finishing up a Graphic
Organizer from a nonfiction story as well as creating a poster illustrating
what we’ve learned about the inner Earth. Upon completing our poster we will
begin talking about one of Earth’s materials, ROCKS! We will learn all about
the 3 different types of rocks and the rock cycle through watching videos,
taking notes, and reading articles.
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WOODS
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We
will begin an exciting narrative
nonfiction unit built around the story Bat Loves the Night by Nicola
Davies. This informational text presents information in the form of a story. This story begins on p.200 of our Storytown
book (with the bulldog cover). . We will use the reading skill of sequencing
to help us comprehend the text. This unit will also provide several
opportunities for our kids to interact with various nonfiction texts about
bats in order to build background knowledge about our topic. This will also
allow students to apply the knowledge they constructed last week about
nonfiction texts and their features!
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We
will discuss practice forming possessive nouns
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Students
will also receive a new spelling list that focuses on words silent
consonants. We will also look at words with diagraph ph and the (f) sound.
Here’s the Spelling City link for practice: spellingcity.com/paine3. We are currently
on the Unit 1 Lesson 5 list.
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To
stay fresh on the Map Skills we learned in a previous unit, we will discuss
Continents and Oceans during a portion of our Daily Schedule called Daily
Geography.
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HOMEWORK
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WOODS:
-Students
must read for 20 minutes each night & record the number of pages they
have read in the Agenda/Husky Pad. Remember,
we are now having students to log their at home reading in the very last
section of the Agenda. Students should be recording the title of the book
they read and the pages they’ve read.
-Students
will receive a Continents and Oceans sheet on Monday to complete at home. It
is due FRIDAY.
HORN:
Students must complete 30 minutes of Dreambox this week at home. Additional
(low amount of problems) homework may be given if the teacher sees the need
for practice of a particular skill. Remember Dreambox records time from
Sunday to Saturday.
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Tests
HORN: No tests this week.
WOODS: Spelling Test will be on Thursday; Vocabulary
and Sequencing Quiz on Friday; Continents and Oceans Quiz Friday.
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The
Week Ahead…
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Upcoming
Events
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Math
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We will begin discussing
tables and how they relate and can be used to create a graph.
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We will investigate line
plots and talk about the similarity between it and a number line.
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We will add a new word to
our Math vocabulary “Interpret”
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.Picture
Day is September 17th!
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Field
Trip Money and Chaperone Fees will be collected this week!
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Don’t
forget to send your child with Box Tops as you collect them from your
favorite brands!
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Science
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We will continue Earth and
Space science.
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Reading
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Read and comprehend multiple
Nonfiction
texts.
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Determine the sequence of a
text.
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Language/Writing
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Form Possessive Nouns
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Continue original Narrative Writing pieces!
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Social
Studies
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Correctly identify the
Seven Continents and Five Oceans.
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Spelling Words
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gnat, gnarl, gnome, sign,
knee, knock, knit, knife, knot, write, wrinkle, wrist, wrong, thumb, lamb,
plumber, phrase, phone, gopher, graph
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Vocabulary
Words
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blanketed,
surrounded, plummeted, inverted, nocturnal, effort, dozes, swoops, detail,
and fluttering.
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blanketed
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to be covered by something
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swoops
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to dive or dip downward
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surroundings
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the area around something
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detail
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a small feature
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nocturnal
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to sleep during the day and be active at night
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fluttering
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to move through the air lightly and quickly
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effort
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working hard
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plummet
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to drop suddenly from a great height
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dozes
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to take a short nap
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inverted
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when something is turned upside-down or inside-out
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