Week of September 5th

NO SCHOOL MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH!!!


Mrs. Anderson's Classes

Math - Our math focus for this week will be order of operations.  We will continue to review decimals.  Please encourage your child to practice daily on TenMarks.  All parent logon information was sent home Wednesday in the Dolphin folder.  Students should also practice on IXL.

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 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 continue working with order of operations and multiplying and dividing multi-digit numbers.

Helpful Videos:

Order of Operations
Multiplying Multi-digit Numbers
Dividing by 2 Digit Divisors

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 interjections 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.

Verb Tenses Video
Verb Tenses

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/divide decimal numbers. We will be taking our mid module assessment on Friday.

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. Students who don't have their homework completed or with them in class will miss recess.

Writing-
This week we will work on paragraph structure and stretching sentences. 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-
Overview: This week we will be reviewing concepts learned up to this point, and will be having a mid module test covering all of the topics we have been working on to this point.

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.

Homework: We will have daily practice problems, and they will all be due on Friday.

Science- We are continuing our study of Life Science, more specifically plant cells. We will be having a quiz on plant cells on Friday.  This unit will be very vocabulary intensive and we will be doing a lot of work in our interactive notebooks.  Please make sure that your child has a notebook as soon as possible as almost every day we are adding new information and it can become too much to keep up with if there is nowhere to put what we are doing in class.  We will be doing a lot of hands on activities and utilizing technology throughout our studies.

Mr. Wooden's Classes

Math- Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 (10, 100, 1000). Converting metric system units. Comparing decimal fractions, rounding decimals.  Review and mid module test.  Daily math homework Monday through Thursday.  Tuesday Lesson 6 Exit Ticket, Friday, mid module test.
Students should correct, and study any low grade exit tickets for a retake Tues-Fri 715-745

Social Studies-   Unit 3 Prelude to the Civil War.  "Who was John Brown?" What effect did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have on public opinions concerning slavery?  Who were the most influential abolitionists?  The election of 1860.  What were "states rights"?  Quiz Thursday.