Weekly Times October 22, 2011

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*Thank you all for the conferences. A copy of the targets will come home by the end of the week.

*Please note that the field trip to Rocca di Cave is on Tuesday, October 25. Students should be at school by 8:00 a.m Thank you for your support.

*On Wednesday, we will be decorating cupcakes for the bakesale. If you are able to send in cupcakes, frosting or are able to come in to help, please let me know! Thank you!

Language Arts
Spelling – al as a prefix and a suffix

Writing – Target-setting forms
Read alouds: Magic School Bus Inside a Volcano

Next week: -ly suffix, review of parts of speech, finish Halloween stories, writing about the rock cycle


Maths
Mathletics - students are signed up and started! We took a "tour" of the site, as well as completed a couple of activities. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments about the program!
Assessment
Number patterns
Counting by 25's

Next week: even and odd numbers, the 3's and 4's multiplication facts

Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
Planning their rock cycle posters
Next week: Field trip, creating a rubric for the posters, finishing up the unit

Rock Cycle sites with great activities:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/environment_earth_universe/rock_cycle/activity.shtml

http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/ (Try the activity with the rock collection....we didn't do it in ICT....you find it at the bottom of the readings about the types of rocks)

Fun song about the layers of the Earth http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=Q9j1xGaxYzY&gl=US

Volcano Recipe Links: (I am sure there are more out there but these are the ones I took from)

http://www.how-things-work-science-projects.com/make-a-volcano.html
http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/volcano.php

Weekly Times October 14, 2011

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Please be sure to sign up for a 15 minute target setting conference with me on Friday, October 21, 2011. To sign up go to:

https://ambritparents.pbworks.com/w/page/21109175/3B%20Ms%20Beeton

Language Arts
Spelling – irregular past tense verbs, introduction to Spellodrome

Writing – Halloween stories, starting on setting goals for the year, answering questions in complete sentences
Reading- reading about the rock cycle,
Read alouds: How Mountains Are Made

Be sure to check out the videos of the students giving their Me Bag essays - they can be found on the page above

Next week: -al suffixes, review of parts of speech, syllables, target setting forms, reading


Maths
Mathletics - students are signed up and started! We took a "tour" of the site, as well as completed a couple of activities. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments about the program!

Review of concepts:

Place value to thousands

Adding and subtracting with regrouping (carrying and borrowing)

Rounding to the nearest ten and hundred

Metric measures of length (m, cm, mm)

perimeter and area

2D and 3D shapes

word problems

Next week: review, assessment and number patterns

Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
Vocabulary - more rock cycle vocabulary

Three main types of rocks - igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary and how they are formed

The rock cycle - how types of rocks change one to another

Edible rock cycle - made with cookies, chocolate chips and marshmallows

Next week: Students will plan and make a poster with a rock cycle

Rock Cycle sites with great activities:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/environment_earth_universe/rock_cycle/activity.shtml

http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/ (Try the activity with the rock collection....we didn't do it in ICT....you find it at the bottom of the readings about the types of rocks)

Fun song about the layers of the Earth http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=Q9j1xGaxYzY&gl=US

Volcano Recipe Links: (I am sure there are more out there but these are the ones I took from)

http://www.how-things-work-science-projects.com/make-a-volcano.html
http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/volcano.php

Weekly Times October 7, 2011

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Language Arts
Spelling – verb endings -ed and -ing - doubling consonants to keep the vowel sound short, droppping the -e at the end of words before adding -ed or -ing, dropping the -y and adding i when adding -ed to words that have a consonant before the -y
Writing – favorite activity paragraphs
Reading- reading about the rock cycle
Read alouds: The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, Magic School Bus Voyage to the Volcano

Be sure to check out the videos of the students giving their Me Bag essays - they can be found on the page above (will finish adding the last few next week)


Maths
Word Problems

Measures - meters, centimeters, millimeters
Perimeter and Area of squares and rectangles, in cm and cm2, counting the squares to find area (not yet multiplying the length times height)

Plotting points on a grid- the game Billy Bug -always going across the x axis, then up the y axis

Triangles - isosceles, equilateral and right triangles
Next week: Review of the concepts and assessment

Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
Vocabulary - verbs

Plate tectonics - the Earth separated into plates that move slowly and cancause earthquakes, mountains and volcanoes among other things

Three main types of rocks - igneous, metamorphicand sedimentary and how they are formed

Making volcanoes
Next week: the rock cycle

Fun song about the layers of the Earth http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=Q9j1xGaxYzY&gl=US

Volcano Recipe Links: (I am sure there are more out there but these are the ones I took from)

http://www.how-things-work-science-projects.com/make-a-volcano.html
http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/volcano.php