- Read 20+ minutes every night!
Reminders
- We have Library tomorrow.
- The school store opens at 8:20 am every Friday morning.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
Homework
- Math Practice 9.1
- Explore the following links to get an idea about some famous Missourians (optional).
Reminders
- Midterm Reports are coming home today; please sign and return them on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. Thank you!
- Crestwood is supporting families during the holiday season. This week we can bring in cleaning and paper products.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Here's What's Coming Up Next Week...
- Monday, November 18th, is Academic All-Star Night. Students who have been notified will attend this event at the Lindbergh High School Auditorium at 6:00 pm.
- On Monday, November 18th, midterm reports will come home. Please review, sign, and return on Monday.
Writer's Workshop
During Writing, we finished publishing our Realistic Fiction stories and created book jackets and "elf shoes" to display our work. Students loved sharing their pieces with parents, teachers, and Mrs. Branding's class.
Tungsten Tests
We took the Tungsten Tests for both Reading and Math this week. We reviewed commonly missed questions on last month's tests and made corrections together. In Reading, we spent some time charting the meaning and some examples of different prefixes. We also made a Venn Diagram to review similes and metaphors. In Math, we reviewed reading line plots, which show how many times a number of a set of data occurs.
After reviewing our previous tests, students took some time to set a goal for their next tests. We discussed that a goal must be attainable, and shooting for a 4-8% improvement is a wise goal. Students loved seeing their progress as we completed November's tests.
Remember the Tungsten helps teachers to identify students' strengths and areas of improvement.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
Here's what's coming up next week:
- The Veteran's Day Assembly is Monday, November 11th, from 2:00 - 3:00 pm.
- Service Team for participating students is on Monday, November 11th, until 4:15 pm.
- We will have an early release day on Wednesday, November 13th. Students will be dismissed at 1:40 pm.
- We will have our Realistic Fiction Writing Celebration on Friday, November 15th, from 9:00 - 9:45 am. Look for an invitation to come home on Monday!
Math
During Math this week, we focused on the different strategies of multiplication, including using repeated addition, drawing equal groups, thinking of a special saying, and more. Students also practiced solving for variables in both multiplication and division problems. Use learned and used several new terms: factor, product, prime, composite, multiple, quotient, and fact family. Later in the week, we worked on a challenging story problem as a team. Students worked cooperatively to solve the problem and present their findings to the group.
Eliza explaining how her group used skip counting to solve the problem.
Molly, Colton, & Isabella explaining the entire problem from start to finish.
Reader's Workshop
During Reader's Workshop this week, students created a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast All About books and Narrative Nonfiction. We learned that all about books give us facts using features that make it easy for us to find the most important features. Narrative Nonfiction is written like a story with characters that includes true information. We have to be careful when reading Narrative Nonfiction because the author might infuse his or her own opinions about the topic.
We also learned about schema. Schema is the background knowledge and life experience we have. Our brain likes to organize information into groups, kind of like file folders, as it stores new learning. Everyone has different schema because we have all have had different experiences in our lives. Activating our schema about a topic before we read can help get our brains ready to read actively and acquire more knowledge.
Social Studies
In Social Studies we completed our Informational Text posters to show our growing schema for the first residents of Missouri. Come down our hallway to check them out! Each student used special features to make the most important information stand out.
Writer's Workshop
We completed our final edits on our Realistic Fiction pieces by punctuating dialogue correctly and using Google and Dictionary.com to make spelling adjustments. Students learned about several ways writers title their work: a place, a feeling, the problem, a character, etc. Then they tried a few titles and thought about which would best motivate a reader to pick up their story.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Monday, November 4, 2013
Homework
- Optional: print and bring images/photographs for 1st Missourians project. Think mounds, teepees, Native American sculptures or art, timeline, archaeologists, etc. Make sure any images you bring are not only interesting to look at, but directly related to your informational poster.
Reminders
- New spelling words come home today. Our next test is Friday, November 15th.
- See below for pictures of our Halloween costumes!
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