October 2 - 6, 2017

Language Arts: Saturdays and Teacakes  by Lester Laminack. This mentor text will provide the students the opportunity to notice proper nouns, infer evidence, visualize, and discuss the elements of a memoir.

Mentor Sentence: In Mammaw’s big kitchen, sunlight poured through the windows like a waterfall and spilled over the countertops, pooling up on the checkerboard floor.

Vocabulary: Week 5 vocabulary Quiz Wednesday, October 4th - focus on suffix -able

Week 6 Vocabulary Quiz Friday, October 13th - focus on root “struct”

Week 5 Tier 2 Words

claim - to say that something is true when someone may say it is not true (states the purpose of the argument);  to say that something belongs to you

position - a point of view that is taken on a question; the place where someone or something is

defend - to speak or write in support of someone or something that is being challenged; to fight in order to keep someone or something safe

redundant, gesture, acknowledge, clutch, persevere, agreeable, reasonable, capable

* be able to create additional words using the suffix -able

Week 6 Tier 2 Words

exclude- to leave out; to prevent someone from doing something or being a part of a group

include - to make a part of something

oppose, snide, heap, diverse, origin, instructor, construction, structure

*be able to create additional words with the root “struct”

Social Studies:

• Locate and describe equator, prime meridian, and lines of latitude and longitude on a globe.
• Map and globe skills: use a letter/number grid system to determine location, compare and contrast the categories of natural, cultural, and political features found on maps
• Information Processing Skills: Identify social studies reference resources to use for a specific purpose.

Math: Weekly focus: NBT.2 - Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place  value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. Estimate sums and differences

Homework:

* Read 20 minutes nightly

* Study vocabulary  - quiz October 4th on week 5 words

* Map Skills quiz - Prime Meridian, Equator, lines of latitude, lines of longitude
* IXL, Mobymax, xtramath

* Some students - orange fluency folder (read nightly and answer questions)

Important Dates:

Vocabulary Week 5 - Wednesday, October 4

Map Skills - Wednesday, October 4

Conference Day - Friday, October 6

Fall Break - Monday, October 9

Stone Mountain Field Trip - November 2nd

DA$H - October 20

Technology:

Students have log-ins for the following programs and can practice at home: IXL, xtramath, MobyMax. If you need this information, and have lost the letters that went home, please email and I will be happy to share with you.