Week of Nov. 4th

Science:
Project presentation are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Unit exam is Tuesday Nov 12th. Study sheets for themes 6 and 7 are due Monday Nov. 4th.
Focus day: Students should consult their marks in Power School and work on any missed study sheets. It also is possible to work ahead and built study sheet for the new unit. Student should also review and prepare for their unit exam (Pushed back to Tuesday!)

FLA:
This week we start book talks!  Don't forget to finish reading your independent novels and refer to the questions given to you last week in order to prepare yourself for this discussion.  While I am taking each of you aside one by one for your book talks, you will be working on the French festival research project that was introduced to you!
Focus Day:
-Complete any out-standing work.
-Read your novel or prepare the answers to your book talk questions if you haven't presented already.  (Anyone with today as their presentation date will be discussing their book with me) 

-Work on your French festival project.  You will also have Tuesday and Wednesday of next week to work on this.  You will present to the class on Thursday!

Math:
For focus day. Complete any outstanding home work on unit 3 Fractions. Complete work from Wednesday page 110 # 7 - 11. Continue homework assigned on Thursday (Nov 7) page 112-113 # 1 -4. Complete Friday's math work, read page 114-115 and work on # 1 -8 from pages 115 - 116.

If all this is complete, do the unit review on page 120- 122 of your text book in preparation for the unit test next week which will take place on Wednesday Nov 13. Students are expected to study all the concepts from our fractions,decimal and percent unit.   

This week in Math we explored how to divided decimals using base ten blocks. We learned how to visually represent a division with decimals using base ten blocks. The class also practiced their long division and how to apply it to decimals. Work we did in the text book...page 106 # 1-8. page 107 # 9-13. We also started to look at the order of operations with decimals Pages 108 and 109. 

**A friendly reminder of classroom expectation: students that are absent for any reason are responsible and expected to verify with the teacher on work and class instructions they may have missed and to catch up on all the work and assessments ( quiz / test) they missed.