Happy New Year and welcome back!

 

This week will be diving into Chapter 5, Algebraic Expressions and Properties will be creating a foundation for Chapter 6. 

 

We will start each day with a review of skills to ensure that students have all the math skills in order to be successful. 

 

On Thursday, we will continue our Thinking Classroom activities with Mrs. Cundari.  This is definitely a highlight for the students and us!  It is incredible to see the students using their math skills to answer open ended questions and communicate their logic for solving the problem. 

Monday the students will finish up their Chapter 4, percents, fractions and decimals assessment and take the Chapter 5, Algebraic expressions pretest.

We will have a review week and take the Math MAPS assessment on Wednesday.  

 

This week we will focus on wrapping up and reviewing before Winter Break. 

This week in math we will review Chapter 4 content today and then take the Chapter 4 Assessment on Tuesday.  We are going to change our Thinking Classroom activity to Wednesday this week as we will be taking the Reading MAPS assessment on Thursday and the Math MAPS assessment on Friday. 

 

Next week we will dive into Chapter 5, Algebraic Expressions and Properties 

This week we will start Chapter 4, Percents and Fractions. 

We will focus on vocabulary words and strategies on how to change percents to fractions and fractions into percents. 

 

Thursday will be a thinking classroom day where we have been working on Chapter 10 content.  The students have been doing an incredible job of explaining their math thinking. 

Last week we finished Chapter 3, Rates and Ratios.

 

This week we are going to review math skills from Chapter 1 - 3 and complete any unfinished work.  After Thanksgiving break we will start Chapter 4, percents and decimals. 

 

Thursday we will have our Thinking Classroom lesson. 

This week we will finish Chapter 3, Rate and Ratios.

 

3.5 - Unit Rates

3.6 - Customary Measurement 

We will then review the Chapter 3 material and complete the assessment.

 

We will not have the Thinking Classroom this week due to it being a short week.  

This week we will continue working in Chapter 3, Monday through Wednesday:

3.4 - Graphing Ratio Relationships

3.5 - Rates and Unit Rates

3.6 - Converting Measurements

 

Thursday we will having our Thinking Classroom lesson with Mrs. Cundari. 

Friday will be a day to catch up, reteach, and complete any assignments that may have been missed. 

This week we will continue working in Chapter 3, Monday through Wednesday:

3.4 - Graphing Ratio Relationships

3.5 - Rates and Unit Rates

3.6 - Converting Measurements

 

Thursday we will having our Thinking Classroom lesson with Mrs. Cundari. 

Friday will be a day to catch up, reteach, and complete any assignments that may have been missed. 

This week in Math we will be starting Chapter 3, Rates and Ratios. 

 

We are going to move to a whole classroom instructions model as I believe this will better fit the needs of the students. 

 

We will be looking at ratios, tape diagrams, and ratio tables this week. 

 

Thursday Mrs. Cundari will be coming in to help guide the students with the Thinking Classroom model. Last week we looked at Chapter 10 content using a stem and leaf table. 

 

On Friday, this will be dedicated to making up material from Chapter 2 for the students who didn't complete Chapter 2 while using our small group model.

We will have math class on Thursday and Friday of this week, due to outdoor education. 

 

Thursday and Friday we will get back into our small group instruction for Chapter 2 and 3 based on the needs of the students. We will revisit expectations for classroom procedures. 

Math this week we will be finishing up with Chapter 2 in all groups, and then the students will take a Benchmark test which consists of math skills from Chapter 1 and 2.  All of the groups will then move into Chapter 3, Rates and Ratios. 

 

Thursday Mrs. Cundari will be coming in for the math Thinking Classroom. 

In Math this week we will be finish working with Chapter 2, Fractions and Decimals. We are multiplying and dividing fractions, adding, subtracting, and dividing decimals.  If you have real life problems with any of these math skills, quiz your child and have them complete the problem. 

 

On Thursday, we will be having Thinking Classroom with Mrs. Cundari.  The students love this day and enjoy exploring math concepts and talking about their thinking. 

This week we will continue to dive into Chapter 2, fractions and decimals. 

The students will learn to multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers.  If you are using a recipe, have your child make equivalent fractions by doubling the ingredients.  

 

Mrs. Cundari will again be coming in on Thursday to do Thinking Classroom.  I love seeing the students work together and have conversations about math skills and share their thinking on how they got to their answer. 

This week in math we will be focusing on Chapter 2 vocabulary words and then work on multiplying and dividing fractions.  Chapter 2 is packed with many skills.  If you are looking for something for your child to work on have your child, get onto Skills Trainer on Big Ideas. 

 

Once again on Thursday Mrs. Cundari will be coming in for Math workshop.  It has been amazing to see how the students collaboration is occurring while thinking about a specific math concept and then explaining their thinking. 

Some small groups in math have completed the Chapter 1 math skills, Numerical Expressions and factors, and are moving on to Chapter 2, Fractions and Decimals.  Students are all able to log into Big Ideas and they can practice using skills trainer.  If you need help what the username is for your child, please reach out to me. 

 

Thursday, Mrs. Cundari will come into work on another Math workshop.  Ask your child what the banner questions was from last week.