A brand new week brings brand new goals. The kids and I had a great time learning about figurative language last week. We will continue reviewing our past learning goals by applying the use of figurative language in our writing and identifying them in our reading.
This week in Reading:
We will be reading various texts like fables, folktales, fairytales, and legends to identify the moral of a literary selection.
Vocabulary
- moral-the lesson of a story
- example: Slow and steady wins the race. The lesson learned from this moral, found in The Tortoise and the Hare, is that just because you are fast, doesn't always mean you will win. Take your time.
We will also be looking at mythology to determine the meanings of words and phrases as they are used to refer to characters in those texts.
- examples: When someone says, "He has Herculean strength!" refers to the mythological character of Hercules. Hercules was known for his strength.
In order to understand what these mean, we will be looking at different myths and their characters and how we often use the character's traits to describe things in our every day lives.
Here is a site that can help you practice this week's learning goals at home:
This week in Math:
Whose property is it anyway?
In order to solve multiplication and division problems, we need to understand some mathematical properties. This week we will be defining and understanding the Associative and Distributive properties. Last week, we used several different strategies to solve multiplication. This week, we will break down those strategies and really understand how and why they work. We will begin by creating conjectures (rules) to prove and disprove each property.
Examples:
- Associative Property of Addition and Multiplication
- No matter which numbers you associate (group) together in an addition or multiplication problem, you will achieve the same sum or product.
- (6 + 3) + 2 = 6 + (3+2)---if you notice that in the first half of the equation, the 6 and the 3 are associated and in the second half of the equation, the 3 and the 2 are associated you till get the sum of 11 when you add each side of the equation
- This also works for multiplication: (5 x 2) x 5 = 5 x (2 x 5)
- you still get the same product of 50 when you multiply each side of the equation
- Distributive Property of Multiplication
- When using the distributive property, you can decompose (take apart) numbers by place value and then "distribute" those numbers to the rest of the problem
- Example: You can have a problem like 23 x 19
- Decompose the 19 into a 10 and a 9 and then you multiply the 10 and the 9 by 23
- 23 x 19 = (23 x 10) + (23 x 9)
In Writing, we will continue to focus on sentence fluency by using all of the different types of sentences (delcarative, exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative) in our writing. We will also be learning about simple, complex, and compound sentences. This will help our writing become more appealing to our audiences.
Stay tuned: kids are working on Simile stories!
Social Studies will continue to be incorporated on a daily basis into our Literacy block. By reading more non-fiction text, we continue to prepare ourselves for middle school, high school, and college.
Science: We get to start learning about Magnetism and Electricity this week! We will begin with an investigation into magnetism! I'm sure you will hear all about it! Keep checking in to see the Scientists in room 31 investigating!!
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