The Week: 11/25 - 11/27

READ!

30 minutes every night!

Wanted

Mrs. Creasey

Her rein of reading log terror must stop!

The Schneider Reading Posse must outread those pesky third-graders!

REWARD:

One full-size candy bar will be awarded to a randomly-drawn reading log each day the first week in December.  Read thirty minutes or more every night and have an adult sign your reading log.  Put your completed reading logs in the envelope!

Edmodo...
I'm experimenting with a new website called Edmodo.  If you'd like to take a look and participate in the learning process with me, join my group.  Just click on this link and look around:  https://edmo.do/j/2dqi9h
If you're leery about the link, you can go to edmodo.com and enter this code:  z6wbhc

Christmas Plays:
Here are the parts for the Christmas plays.  Everybody will have an assigned role, either as a main actor or an understudy.  In addition to speaking parts, everybody will need to help with backgrounds, costumes, and props.  Parents, I would love to have some volunteers to help with the nuts and bolts of putting this together.  We will present to 1-2 classes at a time in our classroom.  This, of course, will require some interesting remodeling in our room!

Need a script?  Click here!

Runaway Toys:
Teddy Bear:  A4 / Vincent
Toy Soldier:  Ruslan / Clifford
Toy Duck:  Miguel / Peter
Jumping Jack:  Alex / Jordan
Santa Claus:  Luis / Jesse
Twinkle:  Lexi / Henry
Winkle:  Jordan / Mateo
Crinkle:  Justin / Henry
French Doll:  Clifford / Henry
Rag Doll:  Fernando / Britney
Dutch Doll:  Jonatan / Dillan
Japanese Doll:  Britney / Milca
Jimmy Marshall:  Charles / Ruslan
Janie Evans:  BTrina / Emily

Rudolph's Blinker's on the Blink:
Matilda the Witch:  Emily / Victoria
Hairy the Cat:  Henry / A4
Sweepy the Broom:  Jaqueline / Julian
Santa:  Ashton / Reyna
Clumsy:  Mateo / Symmone
Bouncy:  Peter / Jonatan
Bumpy:  Jesse / Derek
Rudolph:  Jalen / Miguel
Dr. Diagnosis:  Khloe / Alex

The Case of the Missing Munchies:
Rachel:  Victoria / BTrina
Maria:  Symmone / Tabatha
Denny:  Derek / Luis
Melody:  Layla / Lexi
Ray:  Dillan / Mykel
Mr. Kramer:  Vincent / Ashton
Parent 1:  Tabatha / Jazmin
Parent 2:  Mykel / Charles

Vocabulary:  Here's a screen shot of the white board.  We are going to practice these words next week and take a vocabulary quiz the following Monday.  Most of these words are review words, so you already have the meanings somewhere!

The Week: 11/18 - 11/22

Yearbook Cover:
Click on this link to take the yearbook cover survey.  Choose the cover you want to see on your fifth-grade yearbook!
http://tinyurl.com/l5ztuwt

Christmas Plays

We are going to present three Christmas plays the last week of school in December.  This will take a lot of planning and participation from everyone.

The plays:

• Rudolph's Blinker's on the Blink
• The Runaway Toys
• The Case of the Missing Munchies

To sign up for a part, complete the form by following this link.

Learning Targets:

Reading:  We will understand and find examples of figurative language in our reading, including:

• similes
• metaphors

Reading:  We will understand and find examples of literary devices in our reading, including:

• alliteration:
  One fat hen
  and a couple of ducks
  three baby brown bears
  four rapid running hares
  five fat, fidgety foxes
  six Simple Simons selling salt in Siam
  seven slimy sailors selling stuff
  eight elongated elephants being elevated on an escalator
  nine nasty-nosed nematoids nibbling on nine nasty-nosed gnats
  ten two-ton, two-tone trucks traveling transcontinental from Tallahassee to Texas, from Tucson to Tennessee
  (Or you could use this version instead...)
  (Or you could Google "one fat hen" and see what else is out there...)
• onomatopoeia
• irony
• oxymoron

Math:  Apply the order of operations in mathematical calculations.
Here's the video we watched in class.

Video #1: Order of Operations

Video #2:  Order of Operations (Same idea, different presentation.)


Math:  Divide expressions with a two-digit divisor.
Video:  Dividing with 2-digit divisors

MYBH

Let's try something new.  I'm going to post the MYBH problems here so you can work on them at home.

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Vocabulary:
You must look at this list at least once a day.  You will be quizzed on these words on Monday!

• Concrete:  Something you can feel or touch.
• Literal:  "for real".  A phrase that describes exactly what is says.  "It's raining cats and dogs" means that animals are actually falling from the sky.
• Literally:  Told in a way that is real.
• Abstract:  Not concrete.  Something that is in your mind.
• Figurative:  Not real.  It can be an idiom or exaggeration.  "It's raining cats and dogs" is figurative language for raining a lot.
• Figuratively:  Told in a way that is exaggerating.
• Simile:  A comparison between two unlike ideas using "like" or "as".
• Operator:  A math symbol that tells you what to do.  (+, x, -, ÷)
• Alliteration:  Using the same initial sound repeatedly.  ("Big bad boppy bumped the baby.")
• Sum: +
• Difference: -
• Product: x
• Quotient: ÷

The Week: 11/4 - 11/8

Grades are online and ready for your viewing pleasure!  Passwords will go home on Monday!

I will be out on Monday to have my hardware inspected.  I've prepared the substitute with a full plate of activities for you!

Update:  It sounds like there were a couple of tough days with the substitutes.  Prepare yourself for some structured learning.  Plan on coming to school to be academic!

Christmas Play:
Let's try to organize a class play to present to the younger classes before Christmas break.  I'll give you this week and next week to look at three scripts that I have chosen.  To make this work, we'll have to continue our regular class work and work towards completing a play-- a monumentous task.  The plays are on the class web page in the resources section.  They are:

• Rudolph's Blinker's on the Blink
• The Runaway Toys
• The Case of the Missing Munchies

If you want to participate in a play, you'll need to audition for a part.  To audition for a part, you need to memorize and present a short scene from the play.

Wednesday Homework:
Language:  Get an adult to complete a letter of recommendation for you using the business letter format that we learned.
Science:  Make sure you have finished Big Idea 2-2.
Social Studies:  Make sure you have finished Geography 8.
Math:  Division Masters through #8

MATH LESSONS:
I will start posting videos of math lessons.  As I get ahead, you will be able to watch the lesson before I teach it to the class.  In fact, your homework could be to watch the lesson and your classwork could be to do the assignment!

Here are a few to get you started:

Wednesday:  Three ways to show division:


Thursday:  Long Division


Last Week:  Double-digit multiplication


You can see all of the lessons that I've created on my Educreations site.

Vocabulary:
I'm going to start including review words in our vocabulary quizzes, so don't forget these words once the week has gone by.  Keep all of your study guides until you're old and wrinkled, and then pass them on to your grandchildren.

• amphitheater

  

  Amphitheater

• border- the edge or margin of a place (like a state or country).
• continent
• predator
• prey
• food chain
• savanna
• competition
• food web
• invertebrates
• divisor
• dividend
• quotient
• operator
• equation