I hope had a wonderful weekend! Tomorrow is day 2 (Gym, Music and French). Please bring your gym clothes and shoes. A kind reminder that student-led conferences are being held on Thursday, December 6th. Students must come with parents as they are the ones who are leading the conference.
Ski trip forms have been sent out. Please fill out both forms front and back and return to me by December 11th
Parent Guild has put together a fun day for our last day of school on December 20th. Please fill out the forms that were sent home. Forms are due December 10th.
A message from our Librarian Mrs. Hayward
Please note that after care invoices are due no later than December 15th. Please contact Ms. Chiapetta if you have any questions or concerns.
March Break Camp registration forms were sent home. If you are interested please fill in the form and bring it back to school as soon as possible.
*Please note that students doing any after school activity, soccer, karate, yoga, etc. will be charged until 4:00 PM in aftercare, when they will be dismissed to their program with their coach!**
Unit of Inquiry
Today we completed the L (what I Learned) in our KWL chart for Ancient Civilizations, as well we completed our student reflections for the unit. We also began our new unit: The Human Body. As a class we went over our central idea and lines of inquiry for this unit. Then we watched short videos about each system while taking notes. Students began to create their title pages. If not completed it is for homework due tomorrow.
Filling out the L for our Ancient Civilizations KWL chart
Learning about the human body and the systems
Inquiry into Mathematics
Today in math we focused on adding and subtracting decimals. Please make sure when you are adding and subtracting that your columns line up properly (tenths, hundredths, thousandths etc).
For example:
For example:
Textbook work
Points to remember:
4.9 = 4 and 9/10 (tenths)
4.99 = 4 and 99/100 (hundredths)
4.999 = 4 and 99/1000 (thousandths)
¼ = 0.25
½ = 0.50
¾ = 0.75
- 2.25 million is written in standard form as
2, 250, 000.
As a decimal we write it as 2.25 million (2 whole million + 0.25 million) and as a fraction it is ¼ of a million (25 is ¼ of 100).
Place value decimals:
4.623
Tens
|
Ones
|
.
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Tenths
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Hundredths
|
Thousandths
|
4
|
.
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6
|
2
|
3
|
Expanded Form:
4.623
4 + 0.6 + 0.02 + 0.003
0-4: round down
5 and above: round up
Inquiry into Language
This week in language our focus for spelling is the prefixes un, in, dis, and trans and words with the sound of long o and practice SLC. Once students finished their spelling lesson activity, they began to complete the comprehension sections for their DRA's
To end the day we had reading buddies with Ms. Fisher's class.
Homework:
- Math lesson #6 due tomorrow
- Human body title page due tomorrow
- Spelling lesson #13 due Wednesday
Important dates/items:
Thursday, December 6 - Student-Led Conferences
Monday, December 10 - Fun Skate forms due
Monday, December 10 - Fun Skate forms due
Tuesday, December 11 - JK-2 Christmas Concert and ski field trips forms due
Tuesday, December 18 - 3-8 Christmas Concert
Wednesday, December 19 - Bake Sale & Casual Day
Thursday, December 20 - Bake Sale & Christmas Spirit Day
Friday, December 21-Tuesday, January 8 - Christmas Break - No School
I hope you have an excellent night!
Love,
Ms. Cass
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