Friday, October 14, 2011

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:
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.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)
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