What are the Gators at 306 Listening Lane up to?
Important dates to remember:
NO SCHOOL October 3 – 8
FALL FESTIVAL October 11 5:00 – 8:00
CONFERENCE WEEK October 21 – 25 (Early Dismissal 12:20)
MATH
PLEASE continue to have your child practice his/her multiplication facts each week. The children will be more successful mastering the concepts presented in class if they know their facts (0-12)! Practice with flash cards and check out the Math Resources on this blog for free online practice.
We have focused on these concepts and will continue to practice:
· Identifying factors and multiples of a given number
· Determining if a number is prime or composite
Coming up soon:
· Input/Output
· Properties of multiplication (commutative, associative, distributive and identity)
Looking ahead:
Multiplication and Division
•2 and 3 digit by 1 and 2 digit multiplication
•2-digit and 3-digit by 1-digit division
•Solve division problems including those with remainders
•Estimate quotients using multiples of 10
•Compute using commutative, associative, distributive property
•Mental Math: estimation of products and quotients; determining reasonableness of an answer
•Problem solving
SOCIAL STUDIES
We are about to begin our study of Native American cultures and will focus on comparing and contrasting the different tribes (Inuit, Kwakiutl, Nez Perce, Pawnee, Hopi, and Seminole). We will learn how each tribe used their environment to obtain food, clothing, and shelter. We will understand why each of the Native American groups occupied the areas they did, with emphasis on why some developed permanent villages and others did not.
SCIENCE
Now that students have an understanding of the water cycle, we are learning about various types of clouds and about different forms of precipitation and sky conditions (rain, snow, sleet, hail, clouds, and fog). We will identify weather instruments and explain how each is used in gathering weather data and making forecasts (thermometer, rain gauge, barometer, wind vane, anemometer). In the Science Lab, students will work in groups to make these weather instruments. We will learn to use weather maps to identify the fronts, temperature, and precipitation and use the information to interpret the weather conditions. We will differentiate between weather and climate.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
In Writing, our focus is informational text. We are working on organizing and developing the body of a paper, as well as editing and revising. We are learning to write using appositives, compound, and complex sentences in order to increase the variety of sentence structures and add more interest to our writing.
We work on our editing skills, including correction of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar daily. We have gained knowledge of nouns and verbs and the roles they play in the subjects and predicates of sentences. Soon, we will learn more about adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.
In Reading, we are using strategies such as rereading, explicit and implicit questioning, and determining the main idea to clarify and help shape our understanding of what we read. We are learning the importance of returning to the text to find evidence to support our answers to questions. Please continue to remind your children to read every night and to record titles and the number of pages they read in their agendas.
THANK YOU, PARENTS, FOR ALL YOU DO TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING!
