Week at a Glance 10/21 and 10/28

Math-We will go back to multiplication this week, focusing more on the factors of 6, 7, 8, and 9.  These are harder to memorize.  Please have your students practicing their skip counting (6, 12, 18, 24, etc.), Xtra Math, and multiplication flash cards.  We will be going deeper with the commutative and distributive property of multiplication.  See chart.

Science- Students will focus on the properties of matter this week.  The will use their senses to observe size, shape, color, hardness, and texture of given objects.

Week at a Glance 10/14

Math- This week our focus is on reviewing addition and subtraction with regrouping, as well as subtracting across zeroes. Students will add with sums up to 1,000 and subtract with a minuend (top number) up to 1,000.

Science- We are starting our unit on matter.  Students will focus on the properties of matter this week.  The will use their senses to observe size, shape, color, hardness, and texture of given objects.

Week at a Glance 10/7

Math- This week we will start our new standard of rounding to the nearest tens and hundreds.  I will have the students draw a vertical number line with endpoints as the two nearest tens or two nearest hundreds.  They will determine the midpoint of the number line and plot the number they are rounding on the number line.  Any number in the "round up zone" (5 ones/5 tens or above) rounds up, anything below rounds down.  See the example below.

Science- We are starting our unit on matter.  Students will focus on the properties of matter this week.  The will use their senses to observe size, shape, color, hardness, and texture of given objects.