2-19-16

2-19-16

Thank you to everyone that made it to conferences this week.  Communication between home and school is the most important factor to success in the classroom.  We don't have any other conferences scheduled for the school year but if you'd like to touch base towards the end of the year, please let me know.

This week we wrapped up our Heroes and Helpers unit by exploring the question “How can stories be alike and different?” First, we read the fantasy story Dex: The Heart of a Hero, about a dog that becomes a superhero! We also learned about some real heroes in the informational text Heroes Then and Now.

Target Vocabulary: depended, overlooked, sprang, studied, gazing, hero, exercise, sore 

Phonics Skills: Words with r-controlled vowels or (for), ore (bore) 

Vocabulary Strategy: Prefix over- (means “above” or “beyond”) 

Comprehension Skill: Compare and contrast—tell how two things are alike or not

Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/ clarify—find ways to figure out what doesn’t make sense 

Lesson 18

Objective: Apply and explain alternate methods for subtracting from multiples of 100 and from numbers with zero in the tens place.

Use compensation to solve 300 – 159

Add to solve 400 – 278

Compensation  800 - 543

Lesson 19 

Objective: Choose and explain solution strategies and record with a written addition or subtraction method.

Problem 1: 180 + 440

Problem 2: 400 – 236 

Lesson 20 

Objective: Choose and explain solution strategies and record with a written addition or subtraction method.

Problem 1: 499 + 166

Problem 2: 546 – 297

Problem 3: 320 + ______ = 418

2-12-16

2-12-16

Yearbook Orders

The last day to turn in your paper order form is Friday, Feb. 19. Yearbooks are $11.66 each. Please make your check payable to PORTAGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS!

No late paper order forms will be accepted. No exceptions! Order online now through March 11 at www.balfour.com. After March 11, the only way to receive a yearbook is to purchase one in the front office when they arrive in April. First come, first serve.

Tuesday, February 16th                           Thursday, February 18th

4:30-4:45  Jimenez                                    4:30-4:45  Open

4:45-5:00  Robinson                                  4:45-5:00  Cassiday

5:00-5:15  Open                                         5:00-5:15  Cheatham

5:15-5:30  Underwood                              5:15-5:30  Open

5:30-5:45  Rozankovich                             5:30-5:45  Trzybinski

5:45-6:00  Greenwood                              5:45-6:00  Open

6:00-6:15  Mayfield                                   6:00-6:15  Reeves

6:15-6:30  Johnson                                    6:15-6:30  Open

6:30-6:45  Vandersloot                             6:30-6:45  Open

6:45-7:00  Brannen                                    6:45-7:00  Schoder

7:00-7:15  Tangeman                                 7:00-7:15  Riggleman

7:15-7:30  Open                                          7:15-7:30  Proctor

7:30-7:45  Davis

This week we pondered the question “What can you learn from signs in your community?” In the humorous fiction story, The Signmaker’s Assistant, a town’s residents learn that they can’t always believe what they read. We also read the play The Trouble with Signs.

Target Vocabulary: assistant, agreed, polite, failed, tearing, wisdom, trouble, cleared 

Phonics Skills: Words with r-controlled vowels ar (car) 

Vocabulary Strategy: Synonyms 

Comprehension Skill: Text and graphic features—tell how words work with art 

Comprehension Strategy: Question— ask questions about what you are reading 

We completed our Mid-Module 5 Assessment last week which was pretty much all on adding 3-digit numbers using number bonds, arrow way, and composing or the vertical way.  This week we have been focusing on decomposing 3-digit numbers.  We will probably take the End of Module 5 assessment towards the end of next week.

Lesson 14 &15 

Objective: Use math drawings to represent subtraction with up to two decompositions, relate drawings to the algorithm, and use addition to explain why the subtraction method works.

Lesson  16 & 17 

Objective: Subtract from multiples of 100 and from numbers with zero in the tens place.

We will start our unit on continents and oceans next week.  There is now a 5th ocean that surrounds Antarctica called the Southern Ocean.  

2-5-16

2-5-16

Who: Sponsored by Lake Center’s Student Council and Captain’s Crew

What is needed: CASES OF BOTTLED WATER

When: February 8th – 18th

Where: Lake Center *Drop off in front of display case between the steps

All donations will be delivered to Portage drop-off location (Art Van)

Jump rope for heart will be during our P.E. time next Tuesday at 12:10.  

Thank you for the quick returns on the conference slips. I have just a few conferences that I need to reschedule. I will contact you next week through email to set up a day and time. Conferences are on Tuesday, February 16th and Thursday, February 18th.

Report Cards will be sent home on Monday, February 8th.  Please bring any questions you have with you to conferences or if you need to talk sooner, please let me know.

This week we explored the question “What words show the order of events in a story?” As we read the realistic fiction selection Luke Goes to Bat, we found out about a boy who learned an important lesson with the help of his grandmother and the legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson. In the informational text, Jackie Robinson, we will learn more about this special American hero.

Target Vocabulary: practice, hurried, position, roared, extra, curb, cheered, final 

Phonics Skills: Words with long i (igh, ie, y) such as sigh, tie, by 

Vocabulary Strategy: Antonyms 

Comprehension Skill: Sequence of events—tell the order in which things happen 

Comprehension Strategy: Visualize— picture what is happening as you read

Lesson 6 

Objective: Use the associative property to subtract from three-digit numbers and verify solutions with addition.

Lesson 7 

Objective: Share and critique solution strategies for varied addition and subtraction problems within 1,000. 

Lesson 8 & 9 

Objective: Relate manipulative representations to the addition algorithm.

Lesson 10 & 11

Objective: Use math drawings to represent additions with up to two compositions and relate drawings to the addition algorithm.