Ms. Chapin's Monkey Jungle Of Excellence Week of November 3rd-7th, 2014

Week of November 3rd-November 7th Learning Goals:

Our Reading Goals:

I can understand that questions help clarify and extend ideas the author is trying to portray. 

I can identify text features that are used in the text and understand how they help in locating information. 

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

Students will be doing a text feature scavenger hunt to identify important features within the book such as: the index, glossary, table of contents, heading, sub headings, etc.

Students will be filling out graphic organizers and discussing in teams the main idea of the text and of various parts of the text.  They will need evidence from the story to support their main idea (details).

Lastly, students will use questions and other details to better understand the message the author is trying to portray to the reader from reading the text. 

I encourage students to continue practicing these skills with their own independent books to improve their reading skills more,  I ask that students check out informational texts at the library this week to help them practice these skills more with their books.  Please have students follow the Reading log in order since many of those skills on the Reading log we're covering in class!!! :-)

The main goal with our readings this week is to help students understand that there are things we need such as in A Chair For My Mother, the girl needed the comfy chair since her family lost all their furniture in a fire.  Otherwise, in Alexander Used To Be Rich Last Sunday, Alex keeps buying toys and other things he truly does not need and loses all his money.    We will be learning ways too budget money so we don't spend it all at once to distinguish between wants and needs. :-)

Our Math Goals for this week:

I can read and write numbers to 1,000 using base ten blocks, number names, and expanded form.

I can compare two and three digit numbers.

*Your child will practice using greater than, less than, equal to signs!!

 768 _____ 786 

                                                                     712 _____ 721
                                                                    544 _____ 454 
                                                                     511 _____ 511 

Also, your child will practice with comparing word problems by looking at the question carefully!!!

POD:  Cody read 462 pages during the month of October.  Thomas read 464 pages.  Who read the more pages?

We will continue to practice our bundling problems, writing our 3 digit numbers in different ways and 100 more, 100 less, 10 more, 10 less ways to differentiate our numbers.  

Lastly, students will continue skip counting forward and backward by 5s and 10s!!!

489, 499, 509, ________, ___________

506, 496, ____________, __________

*Please encourage your child to practice as many bingo spaces on their homework board as possible to practice all of his/her Math skills!! :-)

Our Writing Goals for this week:

Students will be creating various opinion writings on the following topics:

*Which section of the story would be helpful in making financial decisions?

*Writing 3 questions about the text and why they have these 3 questions?

* Why is it important to consider wants and needs in a budget?

*How they would apply what they have learned about making financial decisions with $5.00.

*What's the author's purpose in this text and details that support your reasons?

Our Social Studies Goals are: I can identify and label important places on the map or globe.

·       SS.2.G.1.1 Use different types of maps (political, physical, and thematic) to identify map elements. ·        SS.2.G.1.2 Using maps and globes, locate the student's hometown, Florida, and North America, and locate the state capital and the national capital. ·        SS.2.G.1.3 Label on a map or globe the continents, oceans, Equator, Prime Meridian, North and South Pole.

 SS.2.G.1.4 Use a map to locate the countries in North America (Canada, United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands).

We will create our own map to identify the different continents!!!

We will also be creating riddles, so students can identify the continents by what can be found in these places and by knowing the countries that are within the continent.  There will be continent homework going home TOMORROW November 4th!!! Be prepared to hear about this from your child!!! It will be due on Friday November 7th for presentations so we can guess the continent!!! :-)

Our Science goals are:

SCIENCE

Benchmark  SC.2.l.17.1:  I can compare and contrast the basic needs that all living things, including humans, have for survival. Benchmark SC.2.L.17.2: Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet it’s basic needs.

Students were placed in habitat groups where they will continue to research their habitat such as: rain forests, fresh water, oceans, arctic, deciduous forests, coniferous forests and deserts!!!  Students will present their wordles and detailed dioramas on Friday based on their continuous research!!!

Other notes/reminders:

Our Field Trip to Old McMickey's Farm is this Monday November 10th!!! We will be leaving right at 9:50 a.m.  Please make sure your child is on time to school especially that day!!

Also, I am still waiting for many students' $9.00 for the field trip, permission slip and lunch form!!! Please send your child with it asap!!! :-)

Scholastic Book Orders with money are due by this Friday November 7th!!! *

Please make sure your'e signing any papers under return to school, signing your child's time on his/her Reading log and signing his/her planner.

Math homework is given every night!!! For example, the homework that was given tonight is not due until this Wednesday November 5th!! :-)  I will give a new Math homework this Wednesday!!!

Encourage your child to practice his/her spelling words each night since this skill helps students with his/her writing and Reading skills!!!

Our words for this week are the ur/ir sounds!!!

1. purple

2. curl

3. turn

4. return

5. nurse

6. birth

7. thirty

8. circle

9. stir

10. bird

11. their

12. they're

13. there

( You can give your child other ir, ur words to continue to have your child practice these skills!!!)

Exciting news:  Students have pen pals they just learned about last Friday.  We were connected with a Language Arts 6th Grade class from Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday, Florida!!! Students are super excited to have these pen pals!!! We will be skyping with our pen pals at the end of the year!!! :-)

Our Class Library Day is this Wednesday!!! Please encourage your child to keep reading!!!

Last, your child will start getting sent home with power goals to practice within their own independent reading.   Please encourage your child to practice the skill/ power words on his/her reading bookmark :-)

Have a wonderful week :-)