Update for Sept. 3

          Dear Parents,

          We are well into our school year already!  Your students did a fantastic job researching their Turn of the Century topic (Inventions, Immigration, Cattle Trails, Growing Cities, or Building the Panama Canal/Spanish American War) and creating impressive power point presentations in partners.  Now we have begun our exploration of Electricity in Science and will be doing our Immigration Simulation this Wednesday, 9/5 from 7:45 to 9:15.

          In Writing, we have been creating anchor charts of Narrative writing techniques and reading other writer's writing to learn how they use the techniques effectively.  The students came up with ideas for several seed stories and now are focused on one narrative story which they will work on through next week, improving their craft daily by trying to integrate the techniques we discuss in our mini-lesson at the beginning of class.

      In ROAR, we are creating t-charts of quotes from the text and inferences we are making, showing evidence for our inferences from the dialogue, actions, inner thoughts of the characters, and descriptions in the text.

    In 5.1 math, we are finishing up Order of Operations (PEMDAS) and are working on multi-digit multiplication using both the box and traditional method.  Students in 6.1 math are finishing up the factors and multiples section of Unit 1 and are working on multi-digit division. Below are our current math standards and some math review links for our math groups...  :)

     Thank you for all of your support!!

     Jenny M-G

Standards:

5.1
MGSE.5.NBT.5 Fluently multiply multidigit whole numbers using the standard algorithm (or other strategies demonstrating understanding of multiplication) up to a 3 digit by 2 digit factor

6.1

MGSE6.NS.2 Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm. MGSE6.NS.3 Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.

5.1 Math Practice

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/pre-algebra-arith-prop/pre-algebra-order-of-operations/v/more-complicated-order-of-operations-example

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-review-multiply-divide/arith-review-multi-digit-mult/v/multiplying-2-digit-numbers

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-review-multiply-divide/arith-review-multi-digit-mult/e/multiplication_3

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-review-multiply-divide/arith-review-multi-digit-mult/v/multiplication-6-multiple-digit-numbers

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-review-multiply-divide/arith-review-multi-digit-mult/e/multiplication_4

6.1 Math Practice
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic-home/multiply-divide/mult-digit-div-2/v/level-4-division

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic-home/multiply-divide/mult-digit-div-2/v/dividing-2-digits-no-remainder

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic-home/multiply-divide/mult-digit-div-2/e/division_3