News Flash from 101 Week of December 10, 2018 Ms. Gitler Spirt Night: Five Guys Hamburgers and Barnes and Noble Dress Down Day: Dec. 14th. Support the Media and Digital Arts Program HOLIDAY CLASS PARTY: December 21st We will have a simple gift exchange, refreshments, a movie and/or outside play. If you are the parent helpers for this month, please contact me regarding the plans. s Math i-Ready Lesson 29 Understanding Area and Perimeter Language Arts i-Ready - Lesson 10 Text Features – Cont. Author’s Point of View Lesson 11 Social Studies Where We Are In Place and Time- The interconnectedness of individuals and civilizations, from local and global perspectives Science Possible science project for landform study OBJECTIVE: Recognize area as an attributes of a plane figures and understand concepts of area and perimeter measurements. VOCABULARY: Area, perimeter, square units Assessment: Math Project: Still in Progress Fraction # Line Multiplication Multiplication time test for the 9-12facts, continues. GROUP PRACTICE: Multiplication facts practice 9Xs facts for the next two weeks. Practice fact cards 7s, 8s, 9s. I-Ready HOME Practice RED FOLDERS Please initial folders weekly. I only received 3 folders on Friday. Please send in red folders even though students have not completed the lessons for the week. Use text features and search tools (e.g., keywords, side bars , hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic. Distinguish your own point of view from that of the author’s point of view. Text features, side bars, headings, key words, search tools, hyperlinks Point of View Topic Grammar: Understanding multisyllabic words continue review or prefixes Grammar: Sufixes and prdfixes-Conti. Learning new words and their meanings by adding suffixes and prefixes to base words. SPELLING: Social Studies landform vocabulary Assessment: FSQ test on Friday Writing Skills: Understanding opinion writings and continuing learning to paraphrase Objective: Geography has affected where and how people have chosen to live in history and today. Vocabulary: plateau, cliff, forest, mountains, peninsula, rivers, oceans, bays, marsh, swamp, waterfalls, valley, cannon, caves, mesa, glacier, delta fjord, hills deposition, topography, Geography, Geologist PROJECTS: Students will be engaged in an American Indian Project to be completed at school. The project compares various Indian tribes and how landforms influenced their way of life. HOME PROJECT: Information was sent home on Friday Dec. 7th Objective: Project: Student planet projects turned out awesome and is on display. ALL PROJECTS and grades are in for this unit. Experimenting (Not this week) On going science in the classroom Experimenting with H2O and its characteristics How heat (the sun) affects water and earth Continuing the study of The Scientific Method Conference is anytime you would like to meet: gitler.terry@franklin-academy.org Please email me with your preferred date and time: Tuesdays-Thursday 3:15-4:30 Weebly for Parents: https://fa-gitler.weebly.com/ Determine the meaning of words and phrases as theyare used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language