Sunday, December 13, 2020

Super creative art sculptures!

Conversation starters:

False Prince:

• How were the boys table manners not appropriate for feasting in a nobleman’s home?

• What are the boys competing for?  What is the plan/end game?

• What is an indentured servant?

French explorers

• Who were some of the French explorers?

• Where did they explore?  What did they discover?

Columbian Exchange

• What were some items taken from the New World to the Old World?

• What were some items taken from the Old World to the New World?

• What were some positives and negatives?

* Winter idioms

* Stay on your toes.

* infinitesimal

2+6x5 =  32 not 40  Order of Operations

Mrs Found

Reading Content: We continued to work on making inferences.  We had some fun with this by reading clues about cities throughout the world then finding the correct city’s passport to glue next to the clues. The cities were London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Tokyo, New York City.  

Social Studies Content:  We explored the Columbian Exchange by learning about what was exchanged between the New World and the Old World.  We watched The French Explorers video and took notes.  Note taking is a skill we continue to practice together.

Link to the GOT Force drive. This is the link to our team's drive.  We update this in the morning and we include attachments to be helpful.

Language arts Mrs. Conley:

Students are working on their Figuratively Speaking posters and winter idiom snowmen. The posters should be finished by next Friday but it's hard to nail the specific date as we may need more time for the quality producer piece in school. The winter idioms are due Monday and Tuesday. Student will be also continue to wok on skills during daily oral language lessons, write to daily prompts, and we will be working on a 5w poem this week. 

completed poster example

Mrs. Conley's poster

Math -Mr. Smith

Content: The kids did great on the Assessment! We are on to Unit Two!

Number Sense

• Place value - learning place virtue, estimating and rounding

• Powers of 10- Being able to write numbers in expanded form

• Multiply- we have worked on two digit by two digit and three digit by two digit

Skills : Kids will be learning the Traditional Algorithm for multiplication along with several other skills to improve their number sense. Following the steps and knowing their math fact certainly help. Next week we will be working on division.

Challenge Choice- Kids can choose between the regular Tang math packet and the challenge packet. We try to get kids thinking about math for twenty minutes a day beyond our Everyday Math lessons.

Hour Of Code- This week we had the kids work on coding and we will continue to give it as choice next week.

Sumdog- We are in a Cumberland County Sumdog contest next week.