Important Dates:
Day 1
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Monday, November 9th
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Boys Basketball Starts
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Day 2
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Tuesday, November 10th
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Book Order due (Online Code:
P8RNQ)
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Day 1
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Wednesday, November 11th
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Veterans Day Assembly @ 10:15
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Day 2
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Thursday, November 12th
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LV Shining Stars 2/MandiTori @ Meyer
Theater 7PM
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Day 1
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Friday, November 13th
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5th Grade POPS Concert @ BP
1-2:50pm
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Day 2
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Monday, November 16th
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Parent Club Mtg 6:30 PM @
BV
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Day 1
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Tuesday, November 17th
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LV/BV Orchestra concert
7PM BP PAC
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Day 2
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Friday, November 20th
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Family Fun Night 5-8 PM
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Update: Mrs. Sharman will be out on maternity leave as of November 19th. She will be taking 12 weeks off to be home with her baby boy and Mrs. Thieme will be taking her place and is eager to join the Clubhouse! She will be shadowing Mrs. Sharman on Monday and Tuesday to help with the transition. At any time if you have questions or concerns while Mrs. Sharman is gone, please forward them to lisathie@hssd.k12.wi.us.
Lessons:
Advanced Math –
During this week, students will continue to
dive into surface area of polygonal prisms and pyramids. When working with your child at home, please
remind them to use their notes and then to find the smaller areas before
finding the larger surface area. I need students
to remember that they are required to complete 60 minutes of Khan Academy per
week. Please be on the lookout this week for our Chapter 2 Test.
Science -
This week, students will be starting a new chapter
– Ecosystems and Biomes. The first section
that we will be working on is Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
We will be discussing three main points:
1) What energy roles do organisms play in an ecosystem?
2) How does energy move through an ecosystem?
1) What energy roles do organisms play in an ecosystem?
2) How does energy move through an ecosystem?
3) How much energy is available at each level of an
energy pyramid?
We will begin discussing how organisms get their energy and
talking about producers, consumers, and decomposers. After we discuss this we will move into food
chain and food webs.
Achieve 3000 –
This week we are continuing to work on critical thinking cause and effect and building vocabulary. Students will do this with the articles “Making the Great Lakes Greater” and “There’s Still Oil in the Gulf.” Both articles students will work on identifying vocabulary through the use of context clues, predicting what the article is about and thinking critically while responding to thought questions.
This week we are continuing to work on critical thinking cause and effect and building vocabulary. Students will do this with the articles “Making the Great Lakes Greater” and “There’s Still Oil in the Gulf.” Both articles students will work on identifying vocabulary through the use of context clues, predicting what the article is about and thinking critically while responding to thought questions.
Second Hour Math:
We will finish our “take 2” on the chapter 2 test on decimals and will begin unit 3 on multiplying and dividing fractions.
Resource Language Arts:
This week we will focus on the skill of summarizing a story by looking at the plot. Our story this week is called, “A Chair for My Mother.” In addition, we will work on the skill of being able to determine the main idea and provide details to support it through evidence from the text. Just a friendly reminder that students should be reviewing their vocabulary and spelling words nightly. Also, several students did not turn in their spelling sort that they were to do on Thursday night with a parent. Please make sure to ask your child about this when Thursday rolls around.
This week we will focus on the skill of summarizing a story by looking at the plot. Our story this week is called, “A Chair for My Mother.” In addition, we will work on the skill of being able to determine the main idea and provide details to support it through evidence from the text. Just a friendly reminder that students should be reviewing their vocabulary and spelling words nightly. Also, several students did not turn in their spelling sort that they were to do on Thursday night with a parent. Please make sure to ask your child about this when Thursday rolls around.
| Rapper "Komp" working on onomatopoeia. |
Resource Writing:
Students will continue working on their stories by using sensory details. Rapper “Komp” visited us on Friday to teach us about onomatopoeia. The students were very excited to come up with a list of words to add to their composition notebook. We will finish our drafts on a food of their choosing this week.
Students will continue working on their stories by using sensory details. Rapper “Komp” visited us on Friday to teach us about onomatopoeia. The students were very excited to come up with a list of words to add to their composition notebook. We will finish our drafts on a food of their choosing this week.
Language Arts
Our focus skill this week will be a new standard which asks students to compare and
contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or info in two or more texts. We will work to identify text structure such as chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution. Students will finish their book club book as well as the final
post due Friday. A MobyMax stories lesson is due by Friday as well.
Writing
We are starting the final “bend” of the Lucy Caukins narrative writing program this
week. Students will start on new narrative ideas. In Session 13 & 14 students will learn that one way writers make writing powerful is by emulating narrative writing they admire. We will use examples of great writing they picked from their book clubs books
last week as well as connections to picture books, read alouds, and independent reading books to guide new writing pieces. We will take our writing to the “workbench” to try new things and set new writing goals.
Social Studies
Our focus question this week will be on early English settlements. In the end, we
want students to be able to describe the cooperation and conflict that existed between the colonists and Native Americans at Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth. We will use various resources to study each settlement to identify important leaders, motivations for colonization, and their successes and failures. Students will keep notes on a graphic organizer throughout the unit.
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