I added a couple of links to online typing programs. They are to the right of this post under Links. One is called Dance Mat Typing, and the other says Free Typing Game.
We have a VERY exciting field trip coming up in December. Walden Media has invited the fifth grade to come visit them in their Burlington office. Walden Media is responsible for such movies as Journey to the Center of the Earth, Prince Caspian, and Bridge to Terabithia. At the office, students will compare and contrast a scene from one of their films with the same scene from the book the movie was based upon. They will also work in small groups to create a trailer using Power Point about the first chapter of a new book that the company has published with Penguin. Look for a permission slip early next week. If you would like to explore Walden’s web site, follow the link.
Spelling words
nonprofit
nonfat
nondairy
nonhuman
nonsense
nonfiction
nontoxic
nonverbal
inspire
inject
inhale
invite
inspect
inflate
include
instruct
addition
subtraction
multiplication
division
Here is a list of this week’s spelling/vocabulary words.
exceed
exclude
expand
eject
exhale
emit
erupt
extinguish
Look under the Homework tab for an assignment about European explorers. This assignment is due on Friday, October 17th.
ALEKS is now available to the students. The children were reminded of their log in names and passwords. Once they were given the information, it was requested that they write the information on the math page in the back of their assignment book. Times well be checked every Monday, and children will be held accountable for their time on task and progress toward their goal. Please encourage your child do their work on ALEKS and monitor them to make certain they are staying on task. Each Monday, I will have the write the amount of time they worked on ALEKS for the previous week. Please initial next to the list to let me know that you have reviewed the information with your child. If you have any questios, just drop me a line or give me a call.
Long division is the format for division that most of the parents of our 5th grade students learned when they were in school. We are hoping that through students developing an understanding of how we (parents and other adults) learned to do division, the students will grow to have an appreciation of how hard we worked when we were students. It has also been determined that the majority of school districts, other than Marblehead, do not use the lattice method of multiplication or partial product division. We need to make certain that our children are prepared to be successful as they grow and move from our school.
If you will be out on Thursday for Yom Kippur, please look at Ancient Maps under the Global Studies tab. Notice how the maps change from year to year. Also, when you complete the packet I gave you, you will not have all of the information you need to fill out the chart of explorers. I am aware that not all of the explorers are in the packet. We will complete the rest of the chart next week.
We have added a math page (see the top). Visit and play.