Eureka Math Tip Sheets and General Information for Families

Dear Families, 

Please fine below the links to the Roadmap for Eureka for 5th Grade and the "Parent Tip Sheets" for current Unit. 

Parent Roadmap to Eureka

Parent Tip Sheets for Eureka Math Unit 1

Earth as an Orange - Peeled

Hi Families,

We have some samples of our Earth as an Orange Dissection...Here's the first....

Remy's !

Awesome, eh? 

Reidar prepping for dissection. 

Good try, Colin!

 Andrew M's - The butterfly

Madelyn's Good & Glossy

Snack time, Reidar!

Precise work, Maysa!

Orange Toad, Nice Will!

Great Map, Marika!

Nice idea, Ben M!

Orange Cardiogram - Intricate layout idea - Isiah's

Orange as the Earth Project

Students learned new vocabulary of geography and maps and refreshed old concepts in drawing the 2 dimensional map of the earth on the 3D Orange Globe Model.  I've asked the students to dissect the orange at home, peeling the peel from fruit flesh and laying the peel onto a flat surface to see how closely their maps came out.  This is definitely an experiment, but they can see if the orange is edible and refresh their day's learning as they try this orange dissection.  Then they can ingeniously bring their orange peel maps back to class on a presentation material of their choice to class on Wednesday or email me images of the finished product.  This takes the place of Tuesday's Math HW as well. 

A note on homework

Note, in order to develop student responsibility and organizational skills, that the primary mode of homework communication will be via the student planner and students have the responsibility to complete and use these. 

Additionally, I will provide occasional homework information to aid in clarifications, to support student projects,  and to give suggestions on how homework support could look like at home through, for example, the Connections section of the outlook newsletters. 

Please note however, there are not current plans for daily homework specifics to be posted online. 

HIVE5 Connection - Week of September 12

Posts for the week will be organized by these sections: 

I. Calendar, II. Content & III. Connections.

*Please look for updates on this same page throughout the week* 

 

    Monday :  

Ballroom Dancing Begins! - and will be on Mondays and Thursdays from 12:55 - 1:40.

Bring an orange to school for class tomorrow. Mr, Hagstrom and others will bring in extra oranges for anybody who doesn't have time to run out for an orange. Feel free to bring along an extra to be shared. Thank you! 

Homework Packets were sent home for the week.  There are two pages of math homework on Monday. For an electronic copy of the packet, please click here. 

Tuesday:  Earth modeled on an Orange. See related post on Tuesday.

Wednesday:  Began our non-fiction science and conservation reading.  Students brought in flattened orange peel representations of the earth or had sent in images of their dissection at home.  See the Peel Post.  Tuesday and Wednesday nights' math homework was assigned to be completed for Thursday's class. 

Thursday:  The Reader's Response link has been updated for week 3'(this week). 
Thursday's math homework has been cancelled.   In substitution there is a homework letter writing assignment for Dancing Classroom's.   That homework is to be given to Ms. Chantel next Thursday, and collected by me by Tuesday, but my suggestion is that they finish it tonight if possible.  Here are Dancing Letter.

Thursday:  Curriculum night. 

II.  Content

In math we are working on linear measurement in the metric system from millimeters to kilometers, including examples for each unit of measurement.  ( A pinky finger for a centimeter...) Then we are making conversions in metric units and writing expressions of this with exponents. 

In reading we began the science non-fiction reader's workshop unit.  We will be reading about wildlife and habitat studies and conservation efforts for various organisms.  Some reading areas we will focus on are annotations, asking "thick questions", note-taking, and vocabulary. 

We are also continuing with the reading aloud of Wonder and students will be reading their social science texts.

In social studies we will continue to explore basic geography focusing on the finding locations with longitude and latitude, as well as basic map features: compass rose, equator, prime meridian, the poles, continents, and oceans. Our orange as a globe explored the relationship between the 3D earth and a two-dimensional earth relating land forms to the hemispheres.  

At present moment, writing is being integrated into the reading unit through written responses to read alouds and thinking on paper about our community building topics (getting to know each other).

III. Connections

Ask your student about their thoughts of the read aloud, Wonder, and "The Bee Sting" or "Optimist, Pessimist, Contortionist";  how  they felt they were leaning about the first dance steps; and questions that involve knowledge or practice in identifying or measuring linear metric distance:  how many kilometers is it to Seattle? How many centimeters is your foot? your bed? What fruit in your house is about the size of a decimeter? (quite possibly an orange). 

With the Earth as an Orange project, ask questions about the 4 oceans and 7 continents, the Prime Meridian and equator.  Does your child remember the approximate latitude of Washington?  How is latitude part of the information that a G.P.S. provides? 

Come to Thursday's  IVE Curriculum Night Thu, Sep 15, 2016,5:30 PM to 7:45 PM

This week we will begin organizing the Art Docents for our class; and I will be providing a way to sign up for 
volunteering in class/ school...more to follow. 

Thank you