Battle of the Books Quiz Links

Click on the links below to take online comprehension quizzes for each BOB book! Let Mrs. Whitley know each time you take a quiz by recording the quiz and your score in your agenda and you will receive a ticket! Good luck, kids! Let's rock this Battle!!

The Watsons Go to Birmingham
http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/3396-the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963-quiz
http://www.gradesaver.com/the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963/study-guide/quiz1

Out of My Mind
http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/4824-out-of-my-mind
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3703311.html

Mission Unstoppable
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3423590.html
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/Kids/GamesAndContests/Quiz.aspx?GQId=4483823

Rules
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1426768.html
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-rules/free-quiz.html#gsc.tab=0

The Junction of Sunshine and Lucky
https://www.quia.com/quiz/5462480.html

Crash
https://www.quia.com/rr/837440.html
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-crash-jerry-spinelli/free-quiz.html#gsc.tab=0

When You Reach Me
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-when-you-reach-me/free-quiz.html#gsc.tab=0
http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/2347-when-you-reach-me

The Fairy Tale Detectives
http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/7435-the-fairy-tale-detectives
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3302657.html

Among the Hidden
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-among-the-hidden/free-quiz.html
http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/25396-among-the-hidden

Chasing the Falconers
http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/30607-chasing-the-falconers-1
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz30334722ba6f0.html

Week of November 7-11

Dates to Know

Nov. 8 ~ No School for Election Day

Nov. 10 ~ Book Fair Shopping @ 9:00am (Parents are welcome to join us.)

Nov. 16 ~ Early Release Day

 

Upcoming Quizzes

Wed, 11/9 ~ Native Americans

Fri, 11/11 ~ Exploration

 

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Have you signed up for your parent-teacher conference? If not, click the link below! It is important that I meet with each family so you can receive your child’s progress report.

http://signup.com/go/MKqsHH

 

Here’s what we’re learning this week!

Reading: Our focus for reading this week will be learning to q

Writing: This week we will continue to explore opinion writing and we will work on learning to build support for our opinions using a variety of interesting topics.

Word Study: This week we will continue to focus on the rules for pluralization as well as appropriate uses for the apostrophe.

Math: In math, the focus will continue to be decimal place value and operations. My group will be working on rounding, adding, and subtracting decimals.

Social Studies: We will have 2 quizzes this week. The first will be over Native Americans on Wednesday. The second will be on Friday and it will be over exploration.

 

Have a great week, and as always, don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns! J

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Age of Exploration ~ Technological Tools
https://www.tes.com/lessons/_5Nt1ciGaIqYFg/technology-in-the-age-of-exploration

Week of October 31-November 4

Report Card Video
Important! Please click here to view the report card explanation!


Welcome back and Happy Halloween!! We had a really fun day today! Ask your child about his/her opinion on the existence of the Loch Ness Monster!

 Upcoming Quizzes
Native American Quiz (11/9) and Exploration Quiz (11/11)
 

Coming soon…
An email with a link for conference sign ups will be coming soon. Please be sure to sign up as this is where you will receive your child’s report card.

• Book Fair next week! We will preview this Wednesday and our shopping day will be Thursday, 11/10.

Here’s what we’re learning this week…

7 Habits: This week we will focus on habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Reading:  Our focus for reading this week will be on learning how to quote accurately from a text when explaining what that text says. We will be reading some interesting material and using the strategy of state, cite, explain to continue building our abilities in this area as this is a lifelong skill.

Writing: For writing, our focus is opinion writing. Students will be given many opportunities this week to practice building an opinion through writing.

Word Study: In examining student writing, I've discovered a need for learning the appropriate use of the apostrophe and the pluralization rules. Therefore, we will begin learning the rules for apostrophe use and pluralization this week.

Math: During math, we will continue to build our understanding of decimals looking a comparing and then understanding how to order decimals in both ascending and descending order.

Social Studies:  We will be wrapping up our unit on exploration this week and next as we examine the history of European exploration, as well as its impact on geography, and economics.

Week of October 17-21

As a reminder, this week is Red Ribbon Week! Be sure to remind your child to dress in support of our themes! Please remember to speak with your child each day this week about the importance of saying no to drugs so we can reinforce the message both at home and at school.

Monday: Wear red

Tuesday: Wear a hat

Wednesday: Wear sunglasses

Thursday: Wear bright colors

Dates to Remember:

October 21-28: Fall Break

Here's what we're learning this week!

Reading: During reading this week, we will review how to find the theme of a story, how to locate important information in a passage, and how to use textual evidence to support our thinking after reading a passage.

Writing: During writing this week, we will do several "short writes" to continue practicing the skill of embedding different themes into our writing.

Word Study: After analyzing student writing, I've noticed a need for teaching of the word study rules for adding -ed and -ing to verbs. Thus, we began practicing last week and we will continue to practice these rules this week. The hope is that it will begin to carry over into student writing.

Math: We are starting a new unit this week on decimal place value and operations. We will begin this week by learning how to read and write decimals in various forms. Then we will study the relationships between place value positions (e.g., 0.01 is 1/10 of 0.1). Please look for your child's recent math test in the Tuesday folder, sign and return it to school. Thank you in advance. 

Social Studies: We will continue to learn about how Exploration began, the motives for exploration, the results of exploration, and the impact it had on Native Americans.

It's going to be a short week--only 4 days until Fall Break! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. 

Recent Learning Events

The following pictures will show you much of what has been happening in our classroom during social studies over the last couple of weeks. Enjoy!

 

These students are partnered up together with two Native American regions. They examined the picture and read the text to determine ways in which to depict the cultural characteristics of their assigned regions.

Every student was put into a group to make a mural on a Native American culture region.Using their graphic organizers they were able to illustrate that attributes of their culture region including shelter, environment, food, and artifacts.

For this activity, students were able to examine the 3  most common series of migration to the Americas. They analyzed actual evidence from site cards, a map, a globe, and background on the theories to determine whether they believed the original Native Americans came from across the Atlantic Ocean, along the coast down the Pacific Ocean, or across a land bridge during the Ice Age.  Students then had the opportunity to debate with one another about which theory they believe to be true, as well as the opportunity to piece together their own theory of migration. It was a really cool lesson! 

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For this lesson, students had an opportunity to put together a pic collage or a brochure depicting the Eastern Woodlands Native American tribal cultures.

 Finally, today the students had an opportunity to act out scenes from pictures showing the interactions between Native Americans and explorers . I then interviewed with kids as though they were actually living during that time. It was a lot of fun and it was interesting to hear them and for how the people in these images might have felt during their interactions.

 

 

Top Secret Problem 10-3

For those who would like to work on it at home, here is this week's top secret problem!