The latest BUZZ from The Hive! This week's learning goals!

In Reading we will be reading various texts and evaluating the text to compare and contrast characters, events and settings in literary selections.  When you are reading at home think about the characters and question yourself on how they are similar and in what ways are they different.  You can even compare characters from other similar texts to one another.  This also goes for the events and settings in different texts.  Create a graphic organizer that will help you organize what you are comparing and contrasting.  By doing this, you will be able to understand the text and comprehend much better.  Make those connections!

Here is some practice passages you can read online! 

Compare/Contrast Online Practice!

Non-Fiction Compare/Contrast Online Practice!

Even more practice!

Key Reading Vocabulary for the week:

Compare:  finding what is similar (alike) between two or more objects or ideas

Contrast:  finding what is different between two or more objects or ideas

Events: the important events in the plot of the story

Characters:  the people/animals that are critical to the story

Settings:  the location or locations where the story takes place (can be more than one per story)

This week in Math, we will use our understanding of numbers to compose and decompose whole numbers using factors and multiples.  What is that? I knew you would ask that!  Think about what I ask you before we go into the classroom every morning, “What are the factors of 21?”  You need to know what numbers you can multiply together to get 21 right?  Well those are the FACTORS!  By understanding what makes a number, you can use that knowledge to start multiplying and dividing numbers much more efficiently.  When you “skip count” you are listing multiples of the number you are skip counting by.  So when I say skip count by 6 you would say: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42…and so on.  We will also be learning how to find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) and the Least Common Multiple (LCM) of two numbers! Oh the fun we are going to have!  Practice at home!

Here is a fun game to play online that will help you practice and review factors and multiples! 

Factors and Multiples Online Practice!

Here's some more! Click here for a LOT of fun activiities!

Key Math Vocabulary for the week:

Compose: put together (in this week’s learning goal it refers to what numbers are made of)

Decompose: take apart (in what ways can you break apart numbers)

Whole numbers: values that are whole and not in fractions or decimals

Factors: the numbers you multiply together to get a product

Product: the result of 2 numbers multiplied together (the answer to a multiplication problem

Multiples: the product is the multiple of both factors multiplied together (what you say when you skip count by that given number)

Greatest Common Factor: when finding the factors of two numbers you find the factor that is COMMON (the same) and the GREATEST( the highest value) and there you have the GCF

Least Common Multiple: when you are listing the multiples of two numbers, you find the LEAST (lowest value) multiple that is COMMON (the same) in both lists.

In Writing, we will continue to work on how to develop a comprehensive and detailed plan. We will all be using a 5 paragraph plan format and focus on our transitions to help build SENTENCE FLUENCY.  Remember: the more time you spend on your plan, the less time you have to spend figuring out how to write your rough draft.  Revisit your plan and add or delete ideas as you go.  Your plan is a work in progress and it is there to help you stay on topic and focus on the main idea of your writing piece.  You will continue to work on your "free choice" writing that you started last week and again you should be referring back to your plan as you write.  

In Social Studies, we will continue to be looking at our new materials and as we read the Non-Fiction textbooks, you will use our Fact/Question/Response graphic organizers as you read.  Remember:  reading Non-Fiction text is going to prepare you for all those textbooks and articles you will be reading in high school and in COLLEGE!  That will get you ready to get those jobs you wrote and illustrated in your Success Trackers!  You need to be PREPARED!  What better way than by learning about our great state of Arizona and understanding the history through texts and articles!  

Let's have another great week in The Hive!!!  We have a lot to BUZZ about!