Weekly Times April 29, 2011

Headlines

Language Arts
Spelling – ough words, trade words
Reading –Literature Circles, Chapter 4 Circle and Chapter 5 reading of The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
Read alouds: Frindle by Andrew Clements

Math
Begin Summer Semester Book
Place value to ten thousand

Rounding numbers to the thousands place

Estimating numbers (amounts in a jar)

Place value, adding and subtracting 10 and 100 with numbers up to the thousands, including crossing the tens and hundred's boundary

UNITS of INQUIRY: Money Makes the World Go 'Round

How We Organize Ourselves
Tuning In Activity - Making Fruit Salad, trading to obtain the raw materials necessary to manufacture a project - will put up pictures this week

"Class Economy" - receiving payment, budgeting, paying "bills"

Gathering previous knowledge

n.b. The "field trip" to the grocery store and market should be on Wednesday, May 4, weather permitting

Announcements and Notices

Thursday, May 5, 2011 – Dance Festival at school at 9:30 a.m. – parents are invited to attend!

Friday, May 13, 2011 – Teacher In-service day – no school for students

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 – Spring Gala and Auction
Saturday, May 28, 2011 – May Fair at school


Feel free to email me anytime at courtney.beeton@ambrit-rome.com

Weekly Times April 15, 2011

Headlines

Language Arts

Spelling – no spelling this week

Reading –Literature Circles, Chapter 4 of The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

Read alouds: The Stick and Stone Age

Math

Math test review

Math Test

ICT- Math Practice

UNITS of INQUIRY: Bodyworks

Who We Are

Final Project – Big Human Body Book

Student-Led Conferences – Thank you so much for coming and for all of the feedback! If you haven’t returned the survey, please do so when you can – it is very helpful for the school.

Vacation Homework:

- The sheet about items at a store

- Continue to work on Times Tables

- READ!

Announcements and Notices

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - School Resumes

Thursday, May 5, 2011 – Dance Festival at school at 9:30 a.m. – parents are invited to attend!

Friday, May 13, 2011 – Teacher In-service day – no school for students

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 – Spring Gala and Auction

Saturday, May 28, 2011 – May Fair at school

I hope you all have a safe and lovely holiday!

Feel free to email me anytime at courtney.beeton@ambrit-rome.com

Weekly Times April 9, 2011

HEADLINES

Language Arts
Spelling:
Nervous System words - students do NOT need to know cerebellum, cerebrum, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, cerebral cortex as they were incorrectly defined in my absence; those 5 are now bonus words
Writing:
Our three biggest successes this year
Reflecting on our targets set at the beginning of the year
Learner Profile Attributes page
Practicing for our Student-led conferences with partners and our 8th grade buddies buddies

Math
Dividing simple money ( example 12.30 divided by 3 is 4.10)
More bar charts
Review for the math test (which will be this week as we ran out of time last week)

Units of Inquiry
Who We Are: Bodyworks
Video on the body
Thinking about our final project - the big body book

Important Dates and Events

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - Student-led conferences - students come to school for their conference time only. Each conference is 40 minutes long, led by the student. If you would like to schedule another time to come and have a conference with me, please send me an email.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Bake sale in support of Japan
Friday, April 15, 2011 - last day of school before spring break - please let me know if you are leaving early
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - first day back


Our trip the Pigorini Museum last week

Headlines

Language Arts

Spelling – respiratory system words, quiz on Monday

Reading- sharing our Agile Actor jobs

Read alouds: Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body

Dr. Seuss' Inside Your Outisde

Math

Fractions - finding equivalent fractions with pictures

Adding fractions with like denominators to make 1 whole

Decimals - tenths as fractions and decimals

Graphing - making frequency tables and bar charts

Assessment coming up next week....we will be reviewing in class:

Multiplication facts: especially the 6's and 8's

Multiplication of two digit by one digit numbers (ex. 56 x 8)

Division as inverse of multiplication (fact families)

Doubling and Halving

Fractions - equivalent fractions, fractions that add up to 1 whole, fractions more or less than a half

Money - Euros and cents

Ordering decimals to tenths

Bar charts

UNITS of INQUIRY: Birth of the Earth

Who We Are

The Respiratory System - videos and readings, choosing our spelling words together, examining the vital organs of a calf, making a "model lung"

Field Trip to Pigorini Museum

Announcements and Notices

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - Student-led conferences - Students ONLY come to school with parents for the conference, then return home. Sign up for a time at https://ambritparents.pbworks.com/w/page/21109175/3B-Ms-Beeton

Friday, April 15, 2011 - Last day of school before spring break

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - Classes resume

Feel free to email me anytime at courtney.beeton@ambrit-rome.com