Sunday, November 9, 2014

Ms. Chapin's Monkey Jungle of Excellence Week of November 10th

Our Learning Goals for the Week of November 10th-14th:

ELA:

I can identify the main topic of the text and supporting details.


I can use text features to better understand the text.


I can ask and answer questions during close reading of the text.



I can identify the author's purpose of the text using supporting evidence.  
Students will be doing a variety of practice activities on the computer using games, with teams and in many other contexts to show their understanding of these ideas. 
Students will also be sent home tomorrow (11-10) with an author's purpose project that will be due Friday!!! Be looking for it in your child's homework folder.   The information about the project will be posted on the project paper!!!
The following vocabulary words your child should know by the end of the week: budget, income, wants, needs, savings, afford, future, earn, expensive, allowance, regularly, businesses, members, total and donation!!! Ask your child to share his/her learning of these words!!!
Your child's reading log will include many of these reading strategies learned this week!!! :-)

Our Math Goals for this week:
This is a week of review since we have our test on Friday on 3 digit numbers!!!

I can compare 3 digit numbers using word problems and also using greater than/less than/equal to.
I can write my three digit numbers in at least 3 different ways. 
I can solve a variety of bundling word problems and write the numbers using just tens and ones or just hundreds and tens. 
I can skip count froward and backward by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
, ________, 477, 487, 497, _______, ___________
________, 517, 617, ______
I can add and subtract by 10s and 100s.   

407  -  10 =
792 + 10 =
Look for various review strategies in your child's homework folder this week :-)

Our Writing Learning Goal is:
I can identify the difference between wants and needs.
I can create a budget plan with a list of my wants and needs and tell why these both are in each category!!!


Our Science Goal is:
I can identify the habitat that belongs best for various plants and animals based on their basic needs. 

*We will continue building our habitat with that shows the plants and animals that live in these habitats and will summarize why they live in these habitats!!



Our Social Studies goal is: 
 I can identify all the continents of the world.  I can identify the countries of North America and state some countries within the other continents.  I can identify all the main oceans of the world!!!

We will be playing some fun jeopardy games, creating maps and many other activities to really show a great understanding of the continents of the world!!! :-)




Other Reminders:

*Library Day is this Wednesday!!!!*
*Author's Purpose Project is due this Friday!!!
*Math homework is due daily!!!*
*Make sure you're signing your child's planner and signing any papers under return to school!!*
*Have your child reading, logging reading and practicing his/her power goal/words listed on his/her bookmark for his/her reading level!!


Our spelling words for this week are:
                                                       Ea/ee/y (e sound)
                                             1. read
                                             2. bead
                                             3. peach
                                             4. leave
                                             5. squeal
                                             6. stream
                                            7. steal
                                           8. weak
                                           9. week
                                         10. steel
                                         11. need
                                         12. thirteen
                                         13. empty
                                         14. family
                                         15. sorry
                                         16. angry


Have a wonderful week :-)  Any questions, feel free and contact me via dojo message, via phone or  planner :-)



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