Updated Rubric for Social Studies

We have a new rubric for our short answer questions in Social Studies...

Brrrr....

Well it has been one chilly week! We have had lots going on this week as we prepare to have our Winter Break starting this Friday! The book reports have been great so far!  Everyone did a wonderful job presenting and really tried hard to look at the rest of the class and make eye contact while talking about their book. 

In math today, we took a short mini-quiz over Order of Operations.  On Friday our Math Interns will have another chance to save some lives in the "Mathospital" and work on earning the chance to become DOCTOR MATH!

Remember the following for Order of Operations:

                                            P parentheses

                                            E exponents

LEFT to RIGHT: depending on which comes first, multiply or divide

                                            M multiply

                                            D divide

 LEFT to RIGHT: depending on which comes first, add or subtract

                                            A add

                                            S subtract

We reviewed for our Social Studies test tomorrow by playing a Jeopardy game.  Make sure you use your study guide to help you review one last time.

Happy Chanukah!

We're Back!

We're Back from a short break....

I enjoyed seeing everyone at conferences and hope you all had a nice extra-long weekend.  This week we will have a very full week.  We are learning all about writing a Personal Narrative and what ingredients are needed to write an awesome piece.  We are also doing all sorts of various activities with Figurative Language.  We will be having a spelling test on Friday this week that will cover the -tion and the -sion suffixes.  My math class will have a test on Friday as well covering Unit 6 in its entirety.  We will also be finishing up our Chapter projects in Social Studies towards the end of the week. 

A reminder that next Wednesday, November 10th we won't have school!

I hope to see everyone on Thursday evening this week at Interactive Family Curriculum Night!

Social Studies Chapter 2 Project Links

Here are some links to help you with our project:

As more are found, we will add them to the list or you can add them by leaving a comment.

Trail of Tears Information                 FolkTales Link                                   Folktales byTribe      

Native American Chart                    Southeast Native Americans               Some General Info.

More Trail of Tears

Today!

I was so excited when I saw all of the State Projects come in this morning!  They all look great and I can tell how much thought and effort was put into them.  I can't wait to hear each student present them to the class.  We received our first few responses today from Alabama and North Carolina's Tourism offices; I can't wait for more to come. 

This week we have another full and busy week of school.  In Social Studies, we will be starting our projects on Chapter 2.  The students will have a choice of 5 options of a project to do some research and complete an activity on something specific relating to Native Americans.  This will be our last week in music, so you have all survived the quarter of the recorder.  We have technology next quarter with Mrs. Rosenkoff.  We will continue to work on writing better sentences and at the same time we will also be learning more about nouns, abbreviations and titles.  We are also working really hard this week in wrapping up with Rules and completing our projects on this.  This project will count as our book report for the first quarter. 

I hope to see you all at conferences next week!

Scholastic Book Club Ordering

REMINDER!
Today is the last day to place an order for books on the Scholastic website. 
Click on this link to take to you directly to the page where you sign in and place an order.  This is the same as the paper book orders from the past, but now it is much easier to place yoru order online.  There are much more choices online than in the paper fliers.  Our class activitation code is HFKBK.

Replying to a Short Answer Question!

Whenever there is a short answer question, this rubric will be used to grade the answers.

Point VALUE	Requirements
3 points	Answer is written in complete sentences. All sentences have a subject and a predicate. There are no run-ons.
3 points	The student answers the question and uses examples from the text to justify his or her answer.
2 points	The sentences begin with a capital letter.
2 points	The sentences have end punctuation.

State Tourism Info.

Please click the link below to find your address for addressing your envelope in class today!

It may also be a helpful place to check for information for your State Project!

Tourism Link

Math Review

Another great site to check out to help review division is:

Gamequarium

You can also find it under the site we like on the left hand side of the blog!

Back in the swing of things.....

So we are back in the swing of things as we are in the middle of our first full week of school in a quite a long time.  We are extremely busy and have lots going on!

*  This week we will have a Vocab. test on Unit 3 and have also just opened our Cavern of Words in the classroom.
*  My math class will have a test on Thursday covering division.  Please continue to practice your math facts daily!!
*  We have our next current event assignment due on Friday, October 15th -- please let me know if you need any help.
*  We started learning about the early people who lived in our country 10,000 years ago today.  We will not have a formal test on Chapter 2 in Social Studies.  Instead, we will be working in class on a project over several days as an assessment.  Your child will have a choice as to which they will choose to complete.
*  Yesterday, we began our Rules project.  We made our flip book in class and will be completing 2/5 parts of it this week as part of our centers.

Reminders for Wednesday!

Please don't forget that your Current Events are due today!!

I can't wait for you to each present them to the class!  Also, we will have a short quiz over predicates.

I hope to see everyone Wednesday morning to share in the Simchat Torah celebration as we unroll the torah.

It was great seeing so many of you at lunch today and I am so glad the weather held up for our round 2 of lunch in the sukkah.

The Tuesday Telegram

First we had class meeting, in which we took a CARS test. In our first period, Hebrew, Mora Gila’s Hebrew class sang songs and wrote them in their notebooks. In Mora Karen’s Hebrew class, they took a Hebrew reading test. Then in math we took a multiplication test. In L.A. we looked at Mrs. Salmenson’s blog and watched a video which represented Subjects and Predicates. Then we had reading groups and Studied vocabulary. We also worked on our menus. We went to music and practiced playing on our recorders; we will have a pass off tomorrow! It was fun to have a yummy lunch in the Sukkah, with our parents. We also had a birthday book celebration in the library. We went to the computer lab, and went on a vocab site.  We also worked on finding information for our states project.  We are off to P.E.!

then tomorrow we hope to see everyone at the Simchat Torah celebration at 8:20am in the gym!

Emily and Joelle

Predicate Review Video

Sukkot Trivia!

I would like to wish everyone a Happy Sukkot!  

 And now for some trivia...Please post responses as comments on our blog! 

1.  Can you name the four species in the above picture? 

2.  Can you tell me what you do with them?

3.  How are you supposed to hold the yellow thing?

4.  How many days does Sukkot last?

BONUS:  What does Jewish law or halacha call the roof covering for a sukkah?

We hope to see you all at lunch on Tuesday at 12:45 in the Sukkah at Davis!

Tomorrow!!

Just a quick reminder (in case you forgot), tomorrow we have a spelling test on commonly misspelled words. Spelling City is a great site to go to to practice a bit more. Also, we have our Social Studies test on Lessons 4-5 in Chapter 1. You can also go to the Quizlet link in the previous posting for more practice for Social Studies.

I have also added a copy of our schedule at the bottom of our blog...

This Week

Here are some upcoming notes/dates:

This is another short week...

On Wednesday we will be having a Social Studies Test on Lessons 4 and 5 in Chapter 1.  Please review the study guide and vocabulary for this test.  Some good ways to study are making fake tests, making flash cards, being quizzed, teaching the information to a parent or even a dog (stuffed animals adn toys work well too)!  You can also go to quizlet by following this link:  Quizlet for Lessons 4-5 Vocabulary.

We are working on our multiplication facts in my math class right now.  Feel free to play games on the internet or use flashcards to study/review math facts through 12.  Click here to play some games Multiplication Practice.

Current Events are due on September 29th.

Our RULES projects will be done in class, there won't be any work to follow up at home with.

States Project is due on October 18th. 

Please join us for lunch in the Sukkah on Monday, September 27th at 12:45pm.

Welcome!

So I just want to take a quick minute to welcome you to our class blog.  I will be updating this often and there will even be some assignments having to do with our blog.  Please do check this regularly and become a "follower."  We will have many adventures throughout the year and I hope that you are with us to follow all of them!