Welcome to Week 13! It's Thanksgiving week and one of my favorite holidays. Please remember that Wednesday is a half day.
In math this week students will be working through two sections. The first will look at dividing by multiples of 10. The second sections will be dividing with two digit divisors and getting one digit quotients. Each of these sections will require a good amount of practice and use of math facts. Please take a look at your students math this week to see how they are doing.
Speaking of math facts....the kids (and parents practicing with their kids) have done an extraordinary job getting their math facts down. At the beginning of the year we were very nervous about how low our students were testing in math facts. So nervous, in fact, that we created a number of incentives to motivate the kids to continue working on their facts. As a result of their great efforts, the classes averages have risen to great levels. They went from 22 to 26 in addition, 16 to 23 in subtraction, 13 to 21 in multiplication, and 10 to 18 division problems correct in one minute. As you probably remember, 25 correct in a minute is the end of the year 5th grade standard. Amazing! As a result, we have scheduled some rewards for the kids. These are: a free recess either this Tuesday or next Tuesday. A movie this Wednesday. And a Spirit Day (PJ day) and our half day of reading is on Dec. 1st. Nice work kids and parents!
In reading this week, most groups will finish their novels if they haven't already. When the groups are finished, they will be completing a project to go along with their book. These projects will be due the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. The only group who will not be doing a project is Walk Two Moons. That group will be finishing their book and their packet over the Thanksgiving weekend. Their packet will be due Dec. 1st.
In social studies we have completed our brief study of explorers. We are going to be moving into our investigation of the settlement of America. Our essential questions are: Why do people move? Why did people move to America?
In the coming weeks in writing, we will be starting to write personal narratives. Look for more information to be coming home regarding writing after the Thanksgiving Break.
That's it for now. We hope everyone is able to have a fantastic Thanksgiving Holiday!
-Allyn and Alaina
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