February 16-20

ELAR (Ms. Dagger)

This week, we will continue our deep dive into informational texts by reading Great Discoveries and Amazing Adventures. We will analyze how authors build their message by making and confirming predictions, and using specific details to uncover an implied central idea. Also, we will analyze the author's descriptions to understand the purpose behind the writing.

In grammar, we will focus on writing titles correctly.

In writing, we will continue perfecting our ECR, as well as work on our Open House writing project.

Remember to set a time to read each night at home. Reading at home increases comprehension skills, as well as vocabulary. 

As your child is reading books at home, talk about the author's attitude towards the subject (tone) and the feeling the reader gets from the text (mood). 

• What specific words or phrases contribute to the tone and mood?

• What does the tone and mood of the text suggest about the author?

Math (Ms. Lee)

The students are working on Unit 8 called Data Analysis.  The students learn how to collect, organize, display, and interpret data for frequency tables, dot plots, stem and leaf plots, and scatterplots. The students will take a test over Unit 8 on Tuesday, February 17.

Homework

The students will need to complete 30 minutes in i-Ready this week along with 3 fluencies.

Your children did amazing on our Math Interim!! I am very proud of all of them.  Each child has their own interim plan to work on skills for mastery. They have time in class to work on some of the interim plan but will need at times to work on it at home.

  If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me at anne.hurstlee@gcisd.net

Questions to Ask Your Child:

1. How do you multiply a decimal by a whole number?

2. How do you multiply a three digit number times a two digit number?

3. How do you divide by a two digit divisor?

4. How do you divide with a decimal in a dividend?

5. What are key words to look for in word problems for a multiplication problem?

6. What are key words to look for in word problems for a division problem?

7. How do you identify a prime and composite number?

8. How do add or subtract a fraction with an unlike denominator?

9. How do you multiply a fraction by a whole number?

10. How do you divide a unit fraction and a whole number?

11. How do you use PEMDAS or Order of Operations to solve a number expression?

12. Where is the origin, x-axis, and y-axis located on a coordinate grid?

13. What is an ordered pair?

Science/SS (Ms. Whelan)

We will be spending the first few days this week reviewing several science concepts we will see on our next unit test (this Wednesday!) This includes lessons we had before Christmas break, so we will be reaching WAY back in our memories! The students will be working on a review and we will be practicing in class at the beginning of the week.

 Feel free to use the reviews to study at home!

This week I will also begin pulling specialized groups in science, according to their STAAR science interim results. We will be reviewing concepts that were missed, as well as reviewing how we could have improved on our short constructed response question.

In social studies we wrapped up Unit 5 last week with our test,  and will be starting a new unit over the Civil War and Reconstruction. This is usually an inte