Assignment notebooks
Just a friendly reminder to ask for it. J
Online Grade Glitch
The glitch is gone. Grades are updated through December 1st.
Successnet
Successnet is the online component to the math series we use. I have put in a request to have the math coach sign me up for it. After she does that, I can input the students' names, and they can access the entire math book from home using the Internet. A parent letter will come home with the instructions and passwords. However, this will not happen until the math coach signs me up. So I will let you know when that happens.
Upcoming Dates
The Geography Bee will be @ 8:35 on Tuesday, December 7th in the Gym. Parents are welcome to attend. Collin, Ana, and Henry are the students who will represent our class. The students were chosen after they took a pretty tough geography quiz taken that all the 5th and 6th graders at Poly Drive were given. Students from the other classes will be participating as well.
The General Music Holiday Program will be Thursday, December 16th @ 2:15. The Band and Orchestra Holiday Program will be Tuesday, December 21st @ 2:15.
Student Council Holiday Projects
The student council at Poly Drive is sponsoring two holiday projects. One is to benefit hospital patients at Billings Clinic. They are asking for UNWRAPPED new Christmas tree ornaments. The ornaments will be delivered to the patients with their dinner on Christmas Day.
The second one benefits the Montana Rescue Mission. They are looking for donations, again, UNWRAPPED, of diaper wipes, gift cards, pizza coupons, city bus passes, shaving cream, toothpaste, stocking caps, winter gloves, and socks.
Beginning November 29th (Monday) students can bring the gifts and place them under the Christmas tree in the gym hallway. The gifts will be delivered Friday, December 17th.
Reading
We are going to take some reading time and hit social studies and science hard. It will be another week before we get new novels.
Language
We are continuing with our expository writing. We are done for the moment with verb quizzes. Latin Word Root retake quizzes were given and were a HUGE success. Grades were much improved!
NEW: Featured Latin Word Root Drawing—by Sidney!
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Math
Chapter 2: Mostly a review of multiplication for 5th graders and addition and subtraction for 4th graders.
Chapter 2 for 5th grade: Most of the new concepts are multiplying by decimals and multiplying using the Distributive Property.
Chapter 2 for 4th grade: Introducing variables in equations and how to represent them is the new lesson for 4th graders. They are also doing some problem solving and sneaking in a little multiplication of decimals (by multiples of 10) occasionally (as the 5th graders get their lesson).
Science
Our room will soon be a sea of atomic mobiles. Most students have finished building their nucleus and are on to the electron shells. They have had a short introductory lesson on electron configuration (s, p, d, f orbitals) and can write the configuration for their atom.
Social Studies
This has suffered. We are going to hit it hard on Thursday, Friday, and next Monday. Atoms just seem to be more interesting!
5th graders have begun Chapter 2 Native Americans and their Land.
4th graders are working in Chapter 2 learning about basic types of maps (rainfall, population density, elevation maps, regional maps) and doing activities with them.
Spelling
Personal spelling words were taped in to the assignment notebooks on Monday, November 29th.
4th grade spelling words Unit 14 Dec 6th-10th Words ending in –ed or –ing
BASIC: rising, traced, dancing, striped, handled, dared, raced, escaped, stripped, slammed, winning, snapping, bragging, dripped, begged, skipped, hitting, spotted, dimmed, spinning
CHALLENGE: urged, striving, whipped, breathing, quizzed
REAL-WORLD VOCABULARY Fables
advise, boastful, compete, crow, rival, conduct, attention, moral
5th grade spelling words Unit 14 December 6th-10th VCV pattern
BASIC: exact, credit, vivid, modern, panic, cousin, menu, novel, human, award, behave, basic, evil, nation, robot, select, item, police, prefer, deserve
CHALLENGE: autumn, nuisance, logic, column, laser
REAL-WORLD VOCABULARY: The Balance of Nature
ecosystem, impact, detrimental, consequences, organism, nourish, beneficial, recovery
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