Homework Week of November 2 to 5

Dear Students and Parents,

Here is a breakdown of this week's homework and our class concepts:

Concepts for the Week: 

READING: We are reading both fiction and informational text practicing identifying the themes and summarizing. A take away is to support your ideas from specific information in the text.

WRITING:  We continue our discussion and practice of opinion writing, looking at pros and cons, considering the other side's point of view, and structuring/organizing how to write an opinion paragraph/essay.  Opinion writing will be our focus until Dec 4th.

SPELLING: We are studying more vocabulary words, this time focusing on the root "ped," meaning foot.

MATH: We are continuing our discussion of factors, factor pairs, prime, and composite numbers, and solving multiplicative comparisons problems. The core goals include: The students will know all the factor pairs for whole numbers 1-100, Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of its factors,  and Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison. For example, 35 = 5 x 7, meaning that 35 is 5 times as many as 7 and 7 times as many as 5. The students are learning strategies that help them to prove a multiple 2-100 is prime or composite including rules of divisibility. The students will learn how to solve multiplicative comparison problems with word problems and number line.

Homework for the Week (due by Friday this week):

Reading: 120 minutes & BOOK REPORT DUE (I will hang these in the hall for parent conferences)

Spelling: 3 Spelling Tic Tac Toe activities, test Friday
Spelling Words: you, your, you're, to, two, too, biped, pedal, peddler, impediment, millipede, pedestrian, pedicure, tripod, quadruped, centipede

Math: My Math Pages 489-490 (packet for the entire week sent home Tuesday)