Important Dates & Reminders
Please send headphones to school for your student for use in the computer lab and for Type To Learn.
Our library days are: November 27; December 11; January 8, 24; February 7, 22; March 8, 22; April 16, 30; and May 14, 29.
November 21 - 23, 2012: No school
December 4, 2012: Visiting author
December 10 - 14, 2012: Frosty's Playground in physical education
December 21, 2012: Winter break classroom party
December 24, 2012 - January 4, 2013: No school
January 16, 2013: Family Fitness Night at Super Games
January 17, 2013: End of the second grading period
January 18, 2013: No school for students: Teacher grading day
January 21, 2013: No school in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 31, 2013: Early release @ 11:05 for conferences
February 13, 2013: Early dismissal at 1:15
February 18, 2013: No school in honor of Presidents' Day
March 23, 2013: Invention Convention at UAHS (more information coming in January)
April 29, 2013: Ohio Reading Achievement Assessments (all students will take)
April 30, 2013: Ohio Mathematics Achievement Assessment (all students will take)
May 11, 2013: Windermere Wish Run
What We Learned This Week
Word Study
- I can define closed syllables as ending with a consonant and open syllables as ending with a vowel.
- I know the vowel before the final consonant in a closed syllable has a short vowel sound.
- I know the vowel ending an open consonant has a long vowel sound.
- I can "mark" short vowel sounds with a breve and a long vowel sound with a macron.
- I can identify closed and open syllables in two syllable words and mark them appropriately.
- I know the short and long vowel sounds for a, e, i, o, u and y and can give examples.
* Based on the outcome of our spelling assessment, I am going to review open and closed syllables and their marking. These assessments should come home on Monday. I am delaying starting our first pattern or generalization study till after Thanksgiving so we can concentrate on this important content.
Reading
- I can state and explain all the parts of a summary: characters (who), setting (when and where), plot (what and why) with a beginning, middle, and end.
- I can identify the author's underlying message in fiction texts.
- I can use context clues to understand unfamiliar words.
- I can use the internet and paper based non-fiction texts to research a topic (European countries).
Writing
- I can explain the purpose of persuasive writing.
- I can write a topic sentence and a conclusion.
- I can support my topic with opinions and facts.
- I can include challenging vocabulary to strengthen my point.
Math
- I can demonstrate multi-digit addition (summing) using language that shows I understand place, value and regrouping.
- I can multiply groups of zeros, ones, and twos (doubles) and fives fluently.
1. Turn all dominoes face down and shuffle (move around).
2. Each player draws one domino face up and shares. Player with the highest total (sum) of pips (dot array) goes first. Return drawn dominoes to the bone yard (all face down dominoes/draw pile).
3. Each player draws five dominoes.
4. First player plays any domino from their hand face up in the middle of the table. If the ends sum to a multiple of five they score points equal to that multiple. Example: a 3/2 domino sums to five so the player would get one point. A 6/4 domino would sum to ten and the player would earn 2 points.
5. The next player to their left (clockwise rotation) goes next. They must add a domino that matches one of the halves (addend) of the domino. The sum changes to the ends (uncapped) dominoes. For example, if our first player plays the 3/2 domino the sum is five. If the second player plays a 2/7 domino, the new sum is 3 + 7 = 10 (and they score two points). If you start to run out of room you can add to the side of the domino, but you can still only sum the ends.
6. Doubles are played perpendicularly to the rest of the tiles. They are added to the sum. For example, if the first player plays a 3/2 and the second player plays the 2/2 the new sum is 3 + 2 + 2 = 7. Players cannot add onto the end of the double until it has been "capped" or played on perpendicularly on the other side by a matching pip (addend). At this point, when the domino is capped on both sides, it is no longer counted in the sum. If a domino is later played off of the ends of the double, the outer most pip (addend) is part of the sum.
7. If you cannot play a domino, draw from the bone yard/draw pile until you can play.
8. Play ends when one player runs out of tiles.
We concluded unit three, multi digit summing, on Friday. Students assessments have been marked and will be given back to them on Monday to make corrections. They will come home on Tuesday.
Social Studies
- I can name the largest countries in North America.
- I can trace the outline of North America.
- I can name the three oceans that border North America.
- I know that Greenland is part of North America, even though politically it is part of Europe.
- I know that Alaska is separated from the United States by Canada.
Science
- I can log in to the server.
- I can save my work on the server.
- I can use Comic Life to organize and show what I learned during our field trip.
