5-12-17
I hope everyone enjoys their special day and thank you for all that you do.
It's that time again! We are having another Box Tops collection contest next week, May 15-19. If you have any at home, send them in with your student! If you can send them in already clipped and in plastic bags, that would be even better!
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We continued with our unit on surprises as
we read two new selections this week. Two
of Everything is a folktale from China. A
farmer finds an unusual brass pot that doubles
everything put inside it. But is that always a
good thing? In the traditional tale of Stone
Soup, we read about a clever man who figures
out how to make soup from a stone. With both
stories, we explored the question “What clues
help you understand a story character?”
Target Vocabulary: contained, grateful,
startled, odd, search, leaned, tossed,
village
Phonics Skills: Reading longer words;
vowel diphthongs oi (boil), oy (toy)
Vocabulary Strategy: Antonyms
Comprehension Skill: Understanding
characters—tell more about characters
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize—
stop to tell important events as you read
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?
We should just about be done with our economics unit by the time our caterpillars arrive on Wednesday. Our focus this week was on natural resources. Basically anything that we use from nature that helps us produce the goods that we buy. Some examples of natural resources would be : the sun, air, plants, oil, coal, fossil fuels, sand, water, animals, etc...
We also discussed capital and human resources this week. Human resources are the people that build the goods or provide the service. Capital resources are the tools used to make the goods or help people provide a service.
Anchor Run 5K - 5/19
Half Day of school - 5/26
Student Council Spirit Day (Wacky Hair) - 5/26
Memorial Day - No School - 5/29
School Picnic - 6/1
PTO Meeting - 6/5
Ice Cream Social and Scholastic Book Fair - 6/8
Student Council Spirit Day (LCE Spirit Wear & Sunglasses) - 6/9
5th Grade Farewell at Airway Lanes - 6/14
5th Grade Graduation/Last Day of School/Half Day - 6/15
