Personal Electronic Devices
This weekend I sent home a personal devices form. If your child will be using a personal electronic device for educational purposes here at school (research, reading, etc), please complete and return the form at your earliest convenience.
Parent Orientation
Don't forget to attend Parent Orientation next Tuesday at 7pm! Please try to attend. I will also have a volunteer sign up sheet available that evening.
Edmodo
Please let me know if your child does not have access to a computer at home. I will be introducing a very cool homework tool called Edmodo this week. Edmodo is a website for teacher and student use where kids can log on to have group discussions, complete homework assignments, gather research, and complete quizzes all from home!
Basic Math Facts
Starting now, please encourage your child to practice his/her basic math facts at home. It is very important to know basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts in 5th grade as much of our computational work is multi-step!
Agendas
Please sign your child's agenda each night including Fridays. I love the agenda because it is a fantastic communication tool so you can be aware of your child's homework each night, and so that we can write notes back and forth as needed. Keep an eye out for notes from me in your child's agenda. I'm very big on positive agenda notes!
Here is what we'll be learning about this week!
In math, we are kicking off a unit on number theory beginning with factors and products and moving into divisibility rules and prime and composite numbers. Please ask your child about the divisibility rules. These are incredibly helpful when solving division problems and identifying factors! You will also be able to find the divisibility rules below!
In social studies, we are beginning to explore geography. We started yesterday by identifying the continents and oceans and singing songs to help us remember them. We will continues learning about the continents and oceans as well as latitude, longitude, and more specific geographic terms.
For word study this week, I will be introducing our word wall. The kids are invited to suggest words for the word wall as well. On this bulletin board, we will display new or unfamiliar words as well as content words related to our learning.
Our first read aloud of the year is actually a book my 5th grade teacher read to me, called Hatchet. It's a very exciting story about a brave boy who has to survive on his own in the wilderness after his plane crashes in the for Canadian wilderness.
For writing this week, we will begin collecting in our writer's notebooks and learning how to persevere even when there are distractions.
Finally, this week's reading lessons will be about building stamina as a reader, selecting books, and we will have library orientation on Friday so the kids can begin checking out books!
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If the last digit is even, the number is divisible by 2.
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3
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If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, the number is also.
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4
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If the last two digits form a number divisible by 4, the number is also.
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5
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If the last digit is a 5 or a 0, the number is divisible by 5.
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If the number is divisible by both 3 and 2, it is also divisible by 6.
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If the sum of the digits is divisible by 9, the number is also.
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10
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If the number ends in 0, it is divisible by 10.
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