Archive for October, 2008

Fall Party Investigation

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Math Plans Changed due to the fall party and conferences this week.  We will continue working on our graphing from Chapter 5 and 6 next week.

 
Students worked on solving real-life problems involving plans for a Fall Party. After they finished work, they got into groups and each group planned a fall party choosing food, decorations, [...]

October 27-30

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Parent/Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday evenings this week with NO SCHOOL on Friday.  I sent conference reminders home with students.
MATH
This week we are finishing chapter 5. Students should be able to tell you the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data. We are also using graphs as a problem solving [...]

October 20-24

Monday, October 20th, 2008

MATH
We will begin Chapter 5 in Math. In this chapter, students will learn to gather data as well as display and analyze data using a variety of charts, tables, and graphs. 
Monday–the chapter was introduced and we talked about important vocabulary.
Tuesday-Wednesday–Complete lesson 5.1 and key vocabulary to set up a survey and collect data.
Thursday–In Lesson 5.2 [...]

October 15

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Math Chapter 4 Test, and the first Word Origin Vocabulary Test was given back to students today to take home.  As a team we had 35 A’s on the Math test and 23 A’s on the Vocab Test!!  Great Efforts!

October 13-17

Monday, October 13th, 2008

MATH
Students will be taking their Chapter 4 math test on Monday, the 13th.  On Tuesday, we will be working on the Acuity Test in Math covering the skills we have covered to this point. This test will give us data concerning our strengths for MAP and areas that we may need to re-visit for further insturction.  [...]

High Frequency (Core Words)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Here are links to PDF files of word lists you can download and print:
words1-100
corewords100-199
corewords200-299
corewords300-399