4-29-16

4-29-16

Thank You Ms. H!

Pajama and Stuffed Animal Day

Fingerprint Picture Frame the kids made for Ms.H

Good-bye Cookie Cake

One Day Without Shoes will be on May 10th this year.  If your child would like to participate in this one day event, I need you to fill out the permission slip that was sent home and return it to school.  I will forward an email with some resources that explain why we participate in this cause.  If your child doesn't want to go the whole day without wearing shoes, that is OK too.

WHEN

FRIDAY, MAY 13TH, 6PM

WHERE

10011 PORTAGE ROAD

PORTAGE, MI

MORE INFORMATION

Join us for a family-friendly 5k Run/Walk or 1 Mile Fun Run and support your local Portage community. Visit anchorrun5k.weebly.com for more information about registration for the event or opportunities to get your company involved as a sponsor for this great event!

Mileage Club: Are you interested in spending some time on the playground?  Mileage club is looking for volunteers.  Please consider signing up to cover a shift or two. Dates are Wednesday 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/1.  1st shift is from 10:20 - 11:50 and 2nd shift is 11:35 - 1:15. Please contact Angie at adlayne28@gmail.com 

Show your school spirit by ordering a stylish new Lake Center Elementary t-shirt or sweatshirt.  Shirts and sweatshirt come in both adult and youth sizes and are available in different colors and styles.  Spring Spirit Wear forms must be returned, either to your child’s teacher or the office, no later than Friday, May 6th.  Orders will be delivered to your child’s teacher by Friday, May 27th.  Please feel free to contact Nicole Gutshall, PTO Spirit Wear Chair, by email at woodcole@hotmail.com with any questions or concerns.

Next week is the last Box Top competition for the year.  Send in any box tops you have around the house sometime next week.

This week we found out how astronauts explore new places in the informational text Working in Space. We pondered outer space further when we read Space Poems. Children also explored the question “What can you learn from headings and captions?”

Target Vocabulary: astronomy, force, orbit, repair, explored, future, space, float 

Phonics Skills: Words with vowel diphthongs ow (cow), ou (pound) 

Vocabulary Strategy: Classify/categorize 

Comprehension Skill: Text and graphic features—tell how words go with photos 

Comprehension Strategy: Analyze/ evaluate—tell how you feel about the text and why

Lesson 9 

Objective: Solve word problems involving different combinations of coins with the same total value.

Lesson 10 

Objective: Use the fewest number of coins to make a given value.

Lesson 11 

Objective: Use different strategies to make $1 or make change from $1.

Lesson 12 

Objective: Solve word problems involving different ways to make change from $1.

Richie has 24 cents. How much more money does he need to make $1?

Shay buys a balloon for 57 cents. She hands the cashier 1 dollar. How much change will she receive?

Coming Soon.......

4-22-16

4-22-16

Love That Dog!

We went to the Civic Theatre today to see Love That Dog based on the book of poetry by Sharon Creech.  It was very entertaining and the performance really brought all the poems to life with the great visual aides, special effects, and acting.  I was pleasantly surprised by the performance but maybe that is because I don't understand poetry and the performance made it all make sense for me.  So hopefully it made it click for all the students as well.  Maybe we'll read Hate That Cat too.

This week we explored the question “How do you know if something is a fact or an opinion?” We began by reading the biography The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs. Can you guess what the surprising discovery might be in this story? Then we read an informational text called La Brea Tar Pits, where there were more surprising discoveries for us to find!

Target Vocabulary: discovered, guard, remove, souvenirs, amazed, explained, exact, growled 

Phonics Skills: Words with vowel diphthong oo (book); possessives, singular and plural 

Vocabulary Strategy: Synonyms 

Comprehension Skill: Fact and opinion—tell if an idea can be proved or is a feeling 

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

Lesson 6

Objective: Recognize the value of coins and count up to find their total value.

Lesson 7 

Objective: Solve word problems involving the total value of a group of coins.

Example:

Danny has 2 dimes, 1 quarter, 3 nickels, and 5 pennies. a. What is the total value of Danny’s coins? b. Show two different ways that Danny might add to find the total. 

Lesson 8 

Objective: Solve word problems involving the total value of a group of bills.

Part 1: Solve a put together with total unknown type problem. 

Alyssa has 5 five-dollar bills, 12 one-dollar bills, and 3 ten-dollar bills in her wallet. How much money is in her wallet? 

Part 2: Solve a take from with result unknown type problem. 

Silas uses 2 twenty-dollar bills, 3 five-dollar bills, and 4 one-dollar bills on a gift for his aunt. He is going to save the rest. If Silas started with $80, how much will he save?

Part 3: Solve a compare with smaller unknown type problem.

Deste has 4 ten-dollar bills and 6 five-dollar bills. She has $25 more than Kirsten. How much money does Kirsten have?

End of the Year Dates

4/26 - 2:15 5th grade Farewell Concert for school and 6:30 PM for families

4/28 - Interns last day

5/2- 5/ 6 - Teacher Appreciation Week!

5/4 - Bike and Walk to School Day; 3rd Grade M-STEP Math  PT - 12:30-2:30

5/ 6- Wacky Hair Day!  And ½ day dismissal at 11:40 am w/ PD in the PM

5/13 - Anchor Run 5k & Fun Run 6:00

5/30 - No School!

6/10 - 5th Grade Celebration 9:15 am; Meet your teacher 10:45 am; 11:40 dismissal - Wave the students off!  

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4-15-16

We are going to the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre to see "Love that Dog" next Friday, April 22nd.  We will be leaving around 9:15 and returning around 12.  Please make sure everyone packs a lunch that day because we will be eating in the classroom.

We finished Part 1 of Module 7 in math.  Part 1 focused on interpreting graphs and data.  We will be moving on to money next week.  We spent a few days reviewing all the coins and their values this week because our math program jumps right into counting different coin combinations within a $1.  IXL is probably the best resource besides Zearn for counting money.  

Lesson 1 

Objective: Sort and record data into a table using up to four categories; use category counts to solve word problems.

Lesson 2 

Objective: Draw and label a picture graph to represent data with up to four categories.

Lesson 3 

Objective: Draw and label a bar graph to represent data; relate the count scale to the number line.

Lesson 4 

Objective: Draw a bar graph to represent a given data set.

Lesson 5 

Objective: Solve word problems using data presented in a bar graph.

During the next few weeks, we will be exploring the theme What a Surprise! We will read about all kinds of surprises. As we read, we will explore the Big Idea “A surprise can change your life.” We will begin with a fantasy story about a big birthday surprise, The Mysterious Tadpole. We will also learn about real tadpoles in the informational text From Eggs to Frogs. Throughout this first week, we will talk about this question: “Why is it helpful to know the setting of a story?”

Target Vocabulary: confused, ordinary, control, sensible, suspiciously, training, cage, upset 

Phonics Skills: Vowel diphthongs oo (shoot), ew (dew), ue (true), ou (you) 

Vocabulary Strategy: Multiple-meaning words 

Comprehension Skill: Story structure— tell the setting, character, and plot in a story 

Comprehension Strategy: Infer/ predict—use clues to figure out more about story parts

We are getting close to wrapping up our unit on economics in the classroom.  We will do a few activities to help review all of the important vocabulary words that we have learned throughout the unit.

Needs - things that you need to live (water, air, food, clothes, shelter).

Wants - things that you would like but don't necessarily need to live.

Producer - someone who makes or grows a good.  A producer can also provide a service.

Consumer - someone who buys a good or service.

Goods - something you buy that you can touch.

Services - something someone does for you.

Natural Resources - come from the Earth and are used to make a good or service.

Capital Resources - is a good we use over and over again to help produce other goods and services.  Examples:  tools, equipment, factory, road, machines

Human Resources - a person who uses his or her skills to produce a good or a service.