September 30, 2013

Math: Watch the following video.

4 digit times 1 digit example:

Reading: Read 20 minutes.

Social Studies: Finish lesson 2 worksheet if you did not do so in class.

Have a great night!

September 26, 2013

Math: Watch the video below. Practice multiplication facts. STILL VERY IMPORTANT!

Reading: Read 20 minutes.


NO SCHOOL TOMORROW
GRANT'S FARM NIGHT TONIGHT FROM 5-8.

Monday is Music so please bring your recorder.

Have a great weekend!

September 25, 2013

Math: Unit 2 test tomorrow over mean, median, and mode. Also, bar graphs, line graphs, histograms, line plots, frequency tables, and circle graphs. Use your math books and math journals.

Science: Test tomorrow. Use this link to help you study.
http://sciencespot.net/Media/scimethodconvar.pdf

Reading: Read 20 minutes. Finish Time For Kids if you did not do so in class.
DLR quiz tomorrow (review Monday-Wednesday)

No school Friday. Have a great night!

September 24, 2013

Math: Finish M&M graph if you did not do so in class (see picture below for what it should look like). Complete Unit 2 study guide. Use the examples to help guide you on the left and you can use the book pages for help. We will review tomorrow and test on Thursday.



Reading: Read 20 minutes.

Science: Test Thursday. Use the following link to help you study.
http://sciencespot.net/Media/scimethodconvar.pdf

TOMORROW IS SCHOOL PICTURE DAY! PLEASE BE HERE!!!

Have a great evening!

September 23, 2013

Math: Please go through the following activity on choosing a graph.
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/math/data-analysis/correct-graph.htm

Reading: Read 20 minutes.

Science: Finish scientific method quiz

Have a great evening!

September 20, 2013

Math: Please watch the following videos.





We will tentatively plan on testing in math over unit 2 on Thursday, September 27th.

Reading: Read 20 minutes. We are finished using Dork in Disguise for modeling purposes in class. Feel free to finish it and return it to Mr. Schmitz next week when you are done.

Have a great weekend!

Free Enterprise Project

We learned about the free enterprise system in America which gives people the economic freedom to create a product or start a business of their own. In this project, the students played the roles of entrepreneurs by creating their own product or business idea. They came up with a catchy name, made a model or drawing (drawing if it was a business), picked their target audience, developed a marketing strategy and a way to advertise, and presented everything to their classmates. We saw kids create all kinds of services like babysitting and lawn-mowing companies. We also saw creative products that their classmates could actually buy and use like bookmarks, special soccer and basketballs, and duct-tape pens. It was a great success!

September 19, 2013

Math: No video tonight, will review in class. Practice multiplication facts and be sure you know mean, median, and mode.

Reading: Read chapter 13 of Dork in Disguise.
Green and Blue groups should finish their spelling Tic-Tac-Toes.

DON'T FORGET TO TURN IN YOUR MONKEY COUPONS FOR THE GREAT AMERICAN FUNDRAISER TOMORROW! Have a great evening!

Smarties Graphing Project

Today we used packages of smarties to help us get data to create graphs. We created tally charts, bar graphs, circle graphs, and line plots. Check out the pictures below.

September 18, 2013

Reading: Read chapter 12 of Dork in Disguise.

Red group be ready for spelling test tomorrow (have your tic-tac-toe finished).

Math: Please watch the following video.




Have a great evening!

Buddy Day!

September 17, 2013

Math: Practice multiplication facts. No video.

Reading: Read 20 minutes. Read chapter 11 of Dork in Disguise.

Science: Please watch the following short videos.







Don't forget tomorrow is EARLY DISMISSAL. Students will be dismissed at 11:40. Have a great night!

Summarizing in Reading

We have been working hard at writing summaries. We have been thinking like an Oreo when summarizing fiction because they have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Today we shared some of our summaries we wrote about chapter 10 of Dork in Disguise with our partners and analyzed whether they covered the beginning, middle, and of of the chapter.

September 16, 2013

Math: Continuing mean, median and mode. (same videos from this weekend).

Reading: Read chapter 10 of Dork in Disguise. Write a summary of the chapter in your readers response journal (6 sentence minimum).

Social Studies: Presenting Free Enterprise again tomorrow.

DON'T FORGET TO TURN IN YOUR MONKEY COUPONS TOMORROW FOR THE GREAT AMERICAN FUNDRAISER!!! Have a great night!

Mean, Median, and Mode

Today we worked on how to find the mean, median, and mode in a data set. Ask your child how to calculate each one tonight.   

September 13, 2013

Math: Watch the following videos:





Science: Textbook p. 25 #9, 10 p. 26 and 27 #12 p. 40-41 chapter review if you didn't finish it in class.

Social Studies: Free Enterprise project due Monday Sept. 16.

Reading: Read chapter 9 of Dork in Disguise.

Have a great weekend!

Writing Informational Pieces

Today we wrote informational pieces on a topic of our choosing. The students were given an iPad and 45 minutes to draft, revise, edit, and publish their piece. This was a cold writing prompt so the students were not given any guidance. We will look back at these pieces later in the year to see how much we have grown as writers!

September 12, 2013

Math: Please watch the following video and look through the powerpoint afterwards.

Frequency tables and line plots

Reading: Read chapter 8 of Dork in Disguise. Come up with two connections from the chapter (text to self, text to text, text to world) and one prediction about something you think will happen later in the book.

Writing: Go over DLR for tomorrow's quiz.

Have a great night!

September 11, 2013

PAJAMA DAY TOMORROW! Please bring in $1 for a donation to the Gapsch fund.

Reading: Read 20 minutes. Finish Time for Kids.

Math: Review chapters 1-4 for tomorrow's test. The end of the chapter reviews and extra practice are a great resource. 

Social Studies: Free Enterprise project due Monday, Sept. 16.

Don't forget to bring in a dollar and wear your pajamas tomorrow! Have a great night!

Research in Our Library

Today Mrs. Czaicki introduced our class to a variety of research resources available for elementary students. We can use these resources throughout the school year. 

September 10, 2013

Reading: Read chapter 7 of Dork in Disguise. Find one word in the chapter that might have been confusing to the reader or important to the story. On a sticky note or a separate sheet of paper, write down the word, page number, and a definition of the word based on the context clues in the sentence.

Math: We reviewed chapters 1 and 2 today (place value, decimals, expanded form, word form, comparing and ordering numbers). We will review chapters 3 and 4 tomorrow.

Social Studies: We will continue working on our free enterprise projects Thursday and Friday. Projects are due Monday, September 16th.

Have a great night!

September 9, 2013

Reading: Read 20 minutes.

Math: Test Thursday, September 12th over place value, adding and subtracting, estimation, writing numbers in expanded, word, and standard form, writing and solving expressions & equations using variables, and the properties of addition. We will review until we take the test in class.

Social Studies: Free Enterprise project due Monday, September 16th. We will have this week to work on it in class and you may bring it home to work on it as well.

Science: Please watch the following video and have a great evening!

Happy birthday Andrea!

Today was Andrea's birthday and she shared some delicious cake with us to celebrate! Happy birthday Andrea! 

September 6, 2013

Reading: Read 20 minutes.

Math: Complete the lesson quizzes that were sent home for 3.4 - 4.3 (all on the same sheet) about 16 problems total. We will be preparing next week for our first test which will be either Wednesday or Thursday.

Please "like" our class photo on the Sappington Physical Education page!!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153206588475564&set=pb.436926065563.-2207520000.1378502070.&type=3&theater

Have a great evening!

September 5, 2013

Math: watch the following video.




Science: No homework (your child may have left school today thinking there was a video to watch for science, there is not.)

Social Studies: Finish your chapter 1 paragraph at the end of your journal.

Reading: Read 20 minutes. Read chapter 6 of Dork in Disguise and come up with three open ended questions that can help generate discussion. For example: "How did you feel when...?" "Were you surprised when...?" "What is another way the character could have handled this situation?..."

Have a great evening!

September 4, 2013

Reading: Read 20 minutes and read chapter 5 of Dork in Disguise if you haven't done so already (no new chapter to read tonight.)

Math: Please go through the short presentation below.

Solving One Step Equations


Have a great night!

September 3rd, 2013

Reading: Read chapter 5 of Dork in Disguise. (Read 20 at least 20 minutes)

Math: Watch the following two videos. The first one discusses what a variable is and the second is about expressions.

What is a variable?: Understanding that a variable is just a symbol that can represent different values
Example: evaluating an expression: Variables and Expressions 1



Social Studies: We introduced our Free Enterprise project today. More information to follow, tomorrow.

Please bring in a dollar and wear your favorite hat tomorrow as a fund raiser for Maci and Mia Gapsch.
Also, please wear Rams/football gear this Friday for Back to Football Friday! 
Have a great evening!