IXL ” EXTRA Math Practice “
Dear Parents,
Below I have listed a great website that students have been using during W.R.A.P.S. time a few days out of the week. The practice problems reenforce the skills students have been learning throughout the year.
Website # 1: IXL (click the link below)
*Before starting make sure your child types in their username and password (it is located at the top right corner of the page)
Students usernames and passwords:
username: first initial of first name + last name + 739
password: password
It should look like this:
username: blinn739
password: password
I have listed the following skills your children can practice at home.
Place values
B.3 Value of a digit
B.4 Identify the digit with a particular place value
B.7 Convert from expanded form
B.8 Convert between standard and expanded form
Money
N.1 Count coins and bills – up to $5 bill
N.3 Purchases – do you have enough money – up to $10
N.4 Making change
Time
O.1 Read clocks and write times
O.2 Elapsed time I
O.4 Read a calendar
Graphs
Numbers and comparing
- A.1 Write Numbers in Words
- A.6 Skip Counting Puzzles
- A.7 Number Sequences
- A.9 Which Number is greatest/least?
- A.12 Multi-step inequalities
Estimation and rounding
- L.1 Rounding
- L.2 Round money amounts
- L.3 Rounding puzzles
- L.4 Solve inequalities using estimation
- L.5 Estimate sums
Logical reasoning– Extra Challenge
- M.1 Guess the number
- M.2 Largest/smallest number possible
- M.3 Find the order
- M.4 Age puzzles
HAVE FUN!
Classroom Update
Storytown
Lesson 10- Readers’ Theater- Mystery
“The Case of the Three Bears Breakfast”
Comprehension Review
- Fact and Opinion
- Main Idea and Details
- Monitor Comprehension: Reread
Robust Vocabulary
- investigate
- expert
- laboratory
- various
- suspect
- confess
- perplexed
- inquisitive
- inviting
- amusing
Students performed a Readers’ Theater. Readers’Theater is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form. The students read from a “script” and read parts that are divided among the students. The focus of Readers’ Theater is to read the text with an expressive tone, making comprehending the text meaningful and fun for the student!
The students did a wonderful job performing their specific parts! I wanted the students to be able to reflect on their performance, so I videotaped each group using the Ipad. On Monday, the students will watch their skit and write a self- reflection. This gives the students the opportunity to observe both the positives of their part and things they want to improve on in the future. For example: tone, expression, clarity, and volume. I look forward to reading the student’s self-critiques.
Math
We just finished Chapter 5: Money and Time. This week we are beginning Chapter 6: Data. In this chapter, the students will learn how to collect and organize data using different tables, graph data, and read various graphs.
Types of Graphs
- Bar Graph
- Pictograph
- Line Plot
- Line Graph
Writing
The students learned about the meaning of making a resolution and wrote their own New Year’s Resolutions for 2012. The students wrote one to two resolutions based on the following categories; school, home, self, and the world. The student’s New Year’s Resolutions are being displayed in the hallway outside our classroom!
Science
In science students reviewed Chapter on the plant system. Beginning Monday, students will do a guided inquiry on germination rates of 4 different plants. In addition, they will watch the growth of an amaryllis bulb.
