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May 15-19, 2023 Important Links Video Announcements Class Podcast Class Website Weekly Schedule Work Page Stocks Game Parent Portal School Calendar Bell Schedule PTA Volunteer Need to Know The kids will be working on their All-APAAS project (Project Convention open to parents Tuesday May 23rd) District Honors Art Show May 19-20 at Portola HS 5th Grade Pool Party Fri Jun 2 Information, Permission Slip Flag Deck (Parents can watch) Every Friday at 8:10 on the blacktop Final Chit Chat Speeches of the Year will Take Place the Week of May 15 Talent Show May 18 5:30p Reader's Workshop We will continue our unit on Fantasy Books unit. The kids will continue reading their fantasy novels. I am not sure yet what I'll be teaching. It will be based on how much state testing we still have to do. We may discuss the complicated nature of fantasy characters and/or symbols in fantasy novels. Read Aloud The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis serving to connect with our study of Fantasy novels. Writer's Workshop The kids will keep working on their Fantasy Stories. The kids will publish their stories, review them with their writing partner and with me, will use Open AI's DALL-E 2 to make a cover for their fantasy novel. Maths We will move onto our next unit Shapes on the Coordinate Plane depending on our testing schedule. We will explore and review the coordinate grid and plot points and shapes. Social Studies We will continue to work on a project called, Fortunately, Unfortunately where the students are writing a book with a partner recapping the important parts of the American Revolution following the structure of the book Fortunately by Remy Charlip. Read Aloud The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Young Reader's Edition Read Aloud by Brad Meltzer Science The kids will, of course, see Ms. DeMarco for Science Lab. Vocabulary Nothing this week.
In this reflection I reconcile the old with the new for the sake of forward motion. Supporting themes: Geometry; Leadership; Growth; Interviewing; and Spirituality (not religion). Text Referenced: Matthew 9:16; Luke 5:37; and 1 Corinthians 13:11. Typology: Ni and Te.
May 8-12 2023 Need to Know The kids will be working on their All-APAAS project (Project Convention open to parents Tuesday May 23rd) State Testing: May 1-4, and May 9- No Devices. Bring colored pencils, books to read. District Honors Art Show May 19-20 at Portola HS 5th Grade Pool Party Fri Jun 2 9:00-pickup from pool at 1:44 Flag Deck (Parents can watch) Every Friday at 8:10 on the blacktop Final Chit Chat Speeches of the Year will Take Place the Week of May 15 Talent Show May 18 5:30p Reader's Workshop We will continue our unit on Fantasy Books unit. The kids will continue reading their fantasy novels. I am not sure yet what I'll be teaching. It will be based on how much state testing we still have to do. We may discuss the complicated nature of fantasy characters and/or symbols in fantasy novels. Read Aloud The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis serving to connect with our study of Fantasy novels. Writer's Workshop The kids will keep working on their Fantasy Stories. The kids will add to their fantasy story by writing 2 more sections. The first will be twists and turns leading up the final showdown with the villain and the second will be the climax and conclusion where the protagonist faces off against the villain in a final battle and the story concludes. Maths We may do some decimal review or move onto our next unit: Shapes on the Coordinate Plane depending on our testing schedule. Social Studies We will continue to work on a project called, Fortunately, Unfortunately where the students are writing a book with a partner recapping the important parts of the American Revolution following the structure of the book Fortunately by Remy Charlip. The kids will study the capitals and take the capitals test on Friday, May 12. Read Aloud The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Young Reader's Edition Read Aloud by Brad Meltzer Science The kids will review forces, watch a demonstration about Earth's gravity, complete a close reading, write a scientific argument and observe a video and of course see Ms. DeMarco for Science Lab. Vocabulary Nothing this week.
May 1-5 2023 Need to Know The kids will be working on their All-APAAS project (Project Convention open to parents Tuesday May 23rd) State Testing: May 1-4, and May 9- No Devices. Bring colored pencils, books to read. Flag Deck (Parents can watch) Every Friday at 8:10 on the blacktop Final Chit Chat Speeches of the Year will Take Place the Week of May 15 Talent Show May 18 5:30p Reader's Workshop We will continue our unit on Fantasy Books. Next week the kids will learn about readers learning real life lessons from fantastical characters, how quests can be internal as well as external, and comparing themes in fantasy and history. I am reading out loud the book: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe to help connect our learning with a real example. Writer's Workshop The kids will start our last unit of the year writing Fantasy stories. The kids will add to their fantasy story by writing 2 more sections. The first will be rising action where the protagonist faces yet more obstacles and the second will be the turning point where the main character fully steps into the role of hero and the final showdown is just over the horizon. Maths We may do some decimal review or move onto our next unit: Shapes on the Coordinate Plane depending on our testing schedule. Social Studies We will continue our unit on the important battles of the Revolutionary War. The kids will study Yorktown and the end of the war. They will turn in their digital battle map and also work on a project called, Fortunately, Unfortunately. The kids will study the capitals and take the capitals test on Friday, May 12. The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Young Reader's Edition Read Aloud Science The kids will start continue the unit: “Galactic Guidebook” by studying an interactive of constellations as they appear in the sky at different times, then reading an article about how stars have helped farmers. Students review what they've learned about why stars seem to move and how people can use stars to track time and of course see Ms. DeMarco for Science Lab. Vocabulary Nothing this week.
Figures, Coordinate Plane, Brynn, Little things, initials, and elite line play!
044_10.7 Circles in the Coordinate Plane
Circles in the Coordinate Plane
Talking about lesson 10.7
A friend of mine told me that she can walk a mile south, a mile east, a mile north and end up back home. I first thought she lived at the north pole, but she laughed and told me that, since there was no land there, she would be unable to make the walk. She asked me to try again, so I thought for a few minutes before finally saying that I knew how to get within a few minutes of her house, but couldn’t give her an exact location. // Where does she live? // Spiciness: * out of ****
Jackie and Maddie. This podcast explains coordinate planes and how to graph them.
Episode 29. This is the debut of sixth grader, Joey. Joey gives us a quick look at the four Quadrants in the Coordinate Plane. This is part of the Mathtrain.com and Mathtrain.TV Project, from Mr. Marcos and his students at Lincoln Middle School, in Santa Monica, CA.