October 2018

Important Dates

Monday, Oct. 1, 2018: EDM Unit 1 Test, Geometry and Number expressions

Forget Me Not Dates

Monday, Oct. 1, 2018: Spirt Week begins. (More details forthcoming.)
Friday, Oct. 5, 2018: Dicken Dash, The actual run***


Subjects at a Glance

Math: Unit 1 concluded last week.  We began Unit 2, Estimation and Computation Outcomes

Math Unit 1 Outcomes

• Write and evaluate numerical expressions that contain grouping symbols
• Model real-world and mathematical situations using simple expressions.
• Justify the area formula for a rectangle with fractional side lengths by tiling. 
• Understand that a unit cube has 1 cubic unit of volume and can measure volume.
• Measure volumes by counting unit cubes and improvised units.
• Represent products of three whole numbers as volumes.
• Apply formulas to find volumes of rectangular prisms.

Math Unit 2, Estimation and Computation Outcomes

• Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.
• Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them.

• Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
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  Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10.
• Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
• Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
• Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.

Unit 2 Vocabulary

Algorithm       Partial Products    Standard Multiplication  (Area Model, Multiplication algorithm)       
Exponents      Base          Power of 10              Expanded notation          Standard Notation
Written and word notation          Quotient     Divisor     Dividend      Remainder
Round up/ Ignore/ Report Remainder as a Fraction (remainder over divisor)

Language Arts:

• Writing Workshop: We are completing our First personal narratives: The lessons taught were (will be) taught :      
• Describing a Beginning, Middle, and Ending; 
• Exploding the Moment
• When to start a paragraph
• Inserting Dialogue with punctuation; 
• Varying Sentence length
• Using in paragraphsTime Transitions
• Revising the ending
• lesson learned or emotional ending

Our next personal narratives will include:

• When to start a paragraph
• Hooking the reader with a catchy lead; 
• Using voice
• Adding a hyperbole
• Describing Character traits
• Formatting dialogue with different lines for different speakers
• Using synonyms for said (Said is Dead)
• Varying sentence beginnings
• Revising the Ending with a circular

 Reading: We are studying Fiction Elements along with Realistic Fiction. Students are learning how to make inferences and to provide evidence. Reading letters will begin.

Characters    Setting       4 types of conflict            Plot outlines          Solutions      Theme

Characters change with conflict

Science  : We are studying Matter, Ch-Changes. We are investigating why chiefs use pots made of different materials.

Social Studies: We are studying Government and the powers of each branch: popular sovereignty, separation of power and checks and balances.

Math Unit 2, Estimation and Computation Outcomes

 Former Outcomes

Finds product of multi-digit numbers
Multiplies 1 and 2 digit whole numbers by decimals by up to 2 places
Identifies place value from thousandth to billions.
Divides 1 and 2 digit whole numbers
Interpreting the remainder in division
Applying Exponents, powers of 10 and value of numbers in standard form
Converts metric and US customary units

Unit 2 Vocabulary

Algorithm       Partial Products    Standard Multiplication  (Area Model, Multiplication algorithm)       
Exponents      Base          Power of 10              Expanded notation          Standard Notation
Written and word notation          Quotient     Divisor     Dividend      Remainder
Round up/ Ignore/ Report Remainder as a Fraction (remainder over divisor)

Dicken Dash

All students will either run or walk laps around the playground. Dicken Dash is one of our biggest fund raisers. Students were encouraged to bring in pledge sheets until 10/12.

Sincerely,

Avery Hubbard