Tuesday February 25, 2014

Nick started off our day on the right foot with a nice little story about strawberry cake with grandma and snowball fights with his mother.  He made some great connections to the character counts wall and students asked great vocabulary questions to him.

My Brother Sam is Dead continued into chapter 4 where we found Tim in an interesting predicament as his parents (Loyalists) were taken captive by the Patriots.  Tim made a rash decision to steal the Brown Bess from his sleeping brother's arms... What will happen next?  How will Sam react to the Bess missing?  Will Tim save his parents?

In math we continued to talk about customary units of measure and how to convert between them.  REMEMBER:

Basic Conversion Rule:
To convert from a LARGER unit to a SMALLER unit...MULTIPLY

To convert from a SMALLER unit to a LARGER unit...DIVIDE
 

Reading the question carefully, knowing what it is asking, and using all conversion charts available.  Slowing one's self down is vital to success!  Take your time, show your work.

In reading we continued to read 5th grade texts and answer multiple choice questions about them.  Today's focus was on 3 separate texts about eagles.  Questions were answered using text evidence and number proofing.  Also, we answered questions based on what we learned about all three texts and even answered some two choice questions and two part questions.  The rigor has been increased!  Tomorrow we will write a response to all 3 texts on the similar topic of eagles.

Tonight’s Homework

Math
- length and weight conversion word problems

Reading
- Read 30 minutes
- NewsELA on Fence Music in Mexico is due March 4th- (Blue and Purple- 980, Pink-830 , Green-690 )
- Wild Weather reading (annotate, number proof, slash the trash, provide text evidence!)
Vocabulary and Spelling
­- “scrib/script”; PWYK on Friday

Other
- Planner signed
- Study Island (optional due Friday Feb. 28th)
     PACCS Math: divide decimals AND compare decimals
     PACCS Reading: compare/contrast AND context clues