Almost finished with the California maps. It’s fair to say that students have learned a LOT about important geographical features of our state. Some of you noticed the pre-assessment during conferences – three Los Angeles, Las Vegas in the NE corner of the state, Golden Gate Bridge near Sacramento. We’ve come a long way!
SSR this week will focus on choosing just-right books at our guided reading levels and making inferences.

Tuesday Homework

Families: lots of room to volunteer for our field trips to Chinatown and Sonoma Mission. Please follow the link from the email last week and join us!

Math:

  • 4th grade factor bingo
  • 5th grade twenty minutes of Khan Academy. Please add Mike as a coach as specified in the email. Please also focus on the skills highlighted in the assessment you got back today. If you struggled with prime factorization, pratice that!

Reading: 20+ minutes. Five inferences with evidence due Friday. We did the first one in class today as an example. Remember, inferences are ideas the author communicates without saying them. You have to “read between the lines” to infer.

Spelling: Write your 8 hardest words four times each in your packet. Write five sentences using the words from your sort.

Wednesday Homework

Students did skits this morning on logical consequences: loss of privilege, you break it you fix it, and take a break.
Rehearsing for Friday’s opera

Math

  • 4th: factor bingo, and 40 min. Khan by Friday
  • 5th: Khan, 20 minutes

Wordly Wise: 20 minutes or 3 pages

Reading: 20+ minutes and 5 inferences in your reader’s notebook by Friday.

Thursday Homework

Super engaging lesson on Native American stereotyping today.
Students enthralled and horrified by short clip from Disney’s Peter Pan film on the “Red Man.”

No Math (Opera tomorrow will take the place of math class)

Spell: Quizlet – practice your spelling words. I have assigned all the sorts to our class, so search for your sort number! Remember to log in to Google first, then go to the Quizlet site and click on Sign in with Google.

CS: Go on Google Classroom and respond to my question about stereotyping!

Read: 20+ minutes and finish your five inferences for the week