Week of September 12th

Mrs. Anderson's Classes

Math - We will continue to work on order of operations, review decimals and focus on dividing whole numbers and decimals.  Please encourage your child to practice daily on TenMarks.  Will your child be the TenMarks Champ this week?

http://mrnussbaum.com/orderops/

http://www.math-play.com/Order-of-Operations-Millionaire/order-of-operations-millionaire.html

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/mgbh.math.oa.ooo/order-of-operations/

Homework - Turn in daily.  We will discuss all homework assignments the following day.






Assessments - All assessments are given Thursday or Friday and will cover material covered in class that week.
Reading - We will continue to determine the difference between theme and main idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxmsJHD-y4

https://www.quia.com/rr/934941.html 

Homework - Turn in daily.  We will discuss all homework assignments the following
Assessments - All assessments are given Thursday or Friday and will cover material covered in class that week.

Ms. Lewis' Classes

Math
Overview: This week we will focus on dividing with whole numbers and decimal fractions.

Helpful Videos:

Dividing by 2 Digit Divisors
Dividing Decimals
Dividing Decimals and Whole Numbers

Homework: Worksheet due Friday. I will not collect homework until Friday. Students who don't have their homework completed or with them in class will miss recess.

Fluency Practice: All students are asked to practice fluency at least 3 times a week using www.xtramath.org. Each student has their username and pin on a red sheet in the front of their agenda. If it asks for an email address, use: radiance.lewis@douglas.k12.ga.us

Assessments: There will be weekly assessments based on what has been covered in class. Any failing grades can be corrected and returned for partial credit.

ELA
Overview: After finishing up our study of verb tenses this week, we will start working with verbs and verb tenses. Most of the students did well on Friday's assessment. Here are videos to review and preview the concepts for class.

Commas in a Series
Commas in an Introductory Clause

Homework: Worksheet due Friday. I will not collect homework until Friday. Students who don't have their homework completed or with them in class will miss recess.

Assessments: There will be weekly assessments based on what has been covered in class. Any failing grades and be corrected and returned for partial credit.

Ms. Palmer's Classes

Math-
This week we will continue to learn how to multiply decimal fractions. We will also be learning the order of operations.

Xtramath: Students received their login information on a pink sheet of paper for Xtramath.org. They are expected to practice their math fact fluency on this website at least 3 times a week from school or home. Let me know if you are having trouble logging on.

assessments: Students will be assessed weekly based on information covered in the classroom. Students are more than welcome to take their math notebook home to use as a study tool. 
Failing grades can be done over for partial credit.

Homework: Math homework will be assigned on Monday and will be expected to be turned in on Friday morning. I will not collect homework until Friday morning. 

Writing-
This week will we begin with our Narrative Writing Unit. Students will take an On-Demand (Pretest) Assessment on Monday. Students will be learning how to write stories based on their own personal experiences. We will also begin writing constructive responses (Citing Evidence directly from a text)


Homework: This week students will receive a writing assignment.

Mr. Waters' Classes

Math- We have finished the first half of our first module, all about place value and working with decimals (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division)  We will be continuing learning strategies to help with what we have already learned in class. 

Homework:  Students will receive a packet of 2 pages f/b on Monday.  It consists of all the work we will be doing this week and it will be due on Friday (or earlier!)

Be on the lookout for a weekly review that I have been developing. This is not considered homework as we do work on it together in class, but if you would like to see it your student should have it in their folder.  This is a graded assignment worth 10 points (5 bonus points if turned in early), and can really help your child's grade for the 9 weeks.  Please make sure that these are getting done and turned in.  I will be contacting you parents if more than 1 is missing for your child.

Science- We have an exciting week planned in science, we are going to learn the different parts of a microscope and then we will use microscopes to view different types of cells since that's what we've been doing in class.  We will be making "Cell"fies later this week, so make sure to have crayons/colored pencils/etc.  We will also be moving into animal cells and comparing/contrasting the differences between plant and animal cells.  There is a lot more vocabulary that we will be covering so please ask your child about what we have been talking about.  If you would like your child to bring their interactive notebook home  for you to look at please do!  Just make sure that it finds its way back ASAP so that they don't miss putting anything else in it!

Mr. Wooden's Classes

Math- Adding and Subtracting Decimals.  Multiplying and dividing decimals .  Daily math homework Monday through Thursday.  Tuesday Lesson 9 Exit Ticket, Thursday Lesson 10 exit ticket.
Students should correct, and study any low grade exit tickets for a retake Tues-Fri 715-745

Social Studies-   Unit 3The Civil War.  Northern and Southern advantages.  Key people and terms.  Quiz Tuesday and Friday.  Myon reading assignment due Monday 9/19.  Soldier project due 9/21.