Happy Thursday Everyone! This week seems to flying by for some reason! I hope you are having a great week!
Mass- Just a reminder that the 5th graders will be doing the mass next week. You are more than welcome to come!!! I will assign them their parts on Friday. In the beginning of the year, they filled out a card for me with their first 3 mass job preferences. I am trying to stick to it, unless I just can't because more than one signed up for it. Hopefully, they will get to do that job at a later mass.
Reading- This week we read a story called Dangerous Crossing. It's an historical fiction story with John Adams and his son Johnny. They are on a boat ride to France. In our small group center time, we read an historical fiction story on the Boston Tea Party. While both stories are fiction, we had some great discussions on what life was like back for the adults and the kids. We are also focusing on cause and effect again. Our grammar lessons have been about subject pronouns and object pronouns and their antecedents.
Math- We have started the decimal chapter, but we are only two lessons in. We have covered discussing what decimals are and their places behind the decimal. We have talked about when we use decimals in real life-- money, when I am looking for a percentage, times being taken in a swim meet, track meet, or even racing cars. On Wednesday, they learned how to write the number in standard form, written form, and expanded form. The expanded form was different than the way I have taught it in the past, but I must admit!I really liked it better today! It gave them a better picture of what it actually means. 4.268= 4x1+ 2x(1/10)+ 6x (1/100) + 8 x (1/1000). The old way just consisted of us adding the decimals together 4+ 0.2 +0.06 + 0.008. That could be just as confusing because of all the zeros.
Book Reports- Will need to be picked up by Friday. Mrs. Sickels will let you or your child know when they can take the social studies project home.
Next week I don't plan on doing another reading story in 3 days. My plan is to do some work with grammar and some writing activities. The first round of the geography bee will be next Wednesday after mass.
I don't plan on blogging next week. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. If you are traveling, have a safe trip. Enjoy the break and time with your families. We will continue our prayers for the Frey family as the one year anniversary is the 30th.
I will be going to Mom's house for the weekend. I think we will be with my sister and her family and in-laws in Madison, SD on Thanksgiving.
I hope you have a great weekend! Hopefully, it will warm up! These January temps in November... I am not enjoying at all!!!
God Bless,
Miss Surma
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Happy Thursday Everyone!!!! I hope you are having a great week!
Book Reports- These are due on Friday!!!! They won't all share them on Friday. I am going to do a few a day so we can keep going with the other things we need to do.
Reading - This week they read a story called Cougars. This was another nonfiction story that shared information about cougars. I think we all found it pretty interesting. Our grammar this week dealt with quotation marks and where we place them in different situations. We did this together rather than assigning it because I think it can be a difficult task. On Friday's test, they will be given 4 sentences with quotations, commas, and interjection words. They will have to pick out the sentence that is written correctly. This is the final story in this unit. That means next week we will be using the week to do book reports and a unit test. There won't be any spelling next week.
Math-This week we worked on the standard algorithm in division again, but with double digit divisors. They also worked on story problems and figuring out what do you do with that remainder? They learned that the remainder can be written as a fraction in some situations. They also learned that sometimes that fraction causes you to add another number to your quotient, but it depends on what is leftover. For example, if I am dividing my kids up to go in cars and I have 2 kids left out..does that mean they don't get to go along? No, that means I need one more car so they can go along. We are nearing the end of this chapter. They could also be testing in this next week. Our next chapter deals with decimals--adding, subtracting, multiplying, and probably dividing decimals.
Religion- This week is Vocations Awareness . We did a couple of lessons on vocations and realizing what our gifts and talents are and how we can use them in our vocations. We now have a wall in the classroom that states what they consider to be their talents and gifts. I used that in our class meeting on Wednesday as well. They were to write down a talent or gift of each person. I will be making signs for us to have in the classroom with their descriptions.
Social Studies -Their Iowa History project and paper are due on Monday!!! They did a great job with their counties!!! The state of Iowa is now posted in the hallway. It looks awesome! It is fun to see all the kids in grades 3-5 stop and check it out.
Spaghetti Supper is Saturday!!! Civics Club will have games in the classrooms!
Book Fair-- It will be going on during conferences. Please check it out! I won't be sending home any book orders this month because we have the book fair.
Have a great weekend! God Bless, Miss Surma
Book Reports- These are due on Friday!!!! They won't all share them on Friday. I am going to do a few a day so we can keep going with the other things we need to do.
Reading - This week they read a story called Cougars. This was another nonfiction story that shared information about cougars. I think we all found it pretty interesting. Our grammar this week dealt with quotation marks and where we place them in different situations. We did this together rather than assigning it because I think it can be a difficult task. On Friday's test, they will be given 4 sentences with quotations, commas, and interjection words. They will have to pick out the sentence that is written correctly. This is the final story in this unit. That means next week we will be using the week to do book reports and a unit test. There won't be any spelling next week.
Math-This week we worked on the standard algorithm in division again, but with double digit divisors. They also worked on story problems and figuring out what do you do with that remainder? They learned that the remainder can be written as a fraction in some situations. They also learned that sometimes that fraction causes you to add another number to your quotient, but it depends on what is leftover. For example, if I am dividing my kids up to go in cars and I have 2 kids left out..does that mean they don't get to go along? No, that means I need one more car so they can go along. We are nearing the end of this chapter. They could also be testing in this next week. Our next chapter deals with decimals--adding, subtracting, multiplying, and probably dividing decimals.
Religion- This week is Vocations Awareness . We did a couple of lessons on vocations and realizing what our gifts and talents are and how we can use them in our vocations. We now have a wall in the classroom that states what they consider to be their talents and gifts. I used that in our class meeting on Wednesday as well. They were to write down a talent or gift of each person. I will be making signs for us to have in the classroom with their descriptions.
Social Studies -Their Iowa History project and paper are due on Monday!!! They did a great job with their counties!!! The state of Iowa is now posted in the hallway. It looks awesome! It is fun to see all the kids in grades 3-5 stop and check it out.
Spaghetti Supper is Saturday!!! Civics Club will have games in the classrooms!
Book Fair-- It will be going on during conferences. Please check it out! I won't be sending home any book orders this month because we have the book fair.
Have a great weekend! God Bless, Miss Surma
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