Reminders:
Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences – 12/8 & 12/9
Return conference reminder – 12/1
Return Homework for Parents – 12/2
This week we’ll read How to Babysit and Orangutan. In this non-fiction story, Camp Leakey, the island of Borneo, provides a home for orphaned baby orangutans. Human caretakers raise the young orangs, teach them survival skills and eventually return them to the forest. This week’s topics:
· Writing – write a letter to a Marine in deployed in Afghanistan
· Café – expand vocabulary – use dictionaries and thesaurus in reading and writing
· Vocabulary – displeasure, jealous, endangered, smuggled, facial, coordination
· Spelling – /ou/ as in frown and bounce
· Grammar – complex sentences
This week we’ll continue learning basic algebra. We’ve read stories that helped explain variables or “mystery numbers”. Please continue to work on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts as they are needed to find variables. We’ll depend a lot on fact families to find solutions mentally. This is so much easier when facts are memorized.
This week’s topics:
· Identify, describe and extend patters ( numbers and symbols)
· Function Tables (finding rules and operations – addition or subtraction)
· Multiplication and division expressions – using variables and fact families to find mystery numbers
· Function Tables (finding rules and operations – multiplication and division)
This week we’ll learn about the Algonquian language group. We’ll focus on their tribes, natural resources and roles. It is important to see the Iroquois and Algonquians as separate tribes, but also realize they have many things in common. I’ll be sending home a study packet during the week and asking students to review definitions, names and facts about our entire study. Please help your student by looking through the packet each night. The test will be Friday 12/2.
