During session 2, Mr. Blocker reviewed the profit model: revenue - expenses = profit. He also discussed the three types of resources (natural, capital, and human) and the concept of supply and demand. We look forward to Wednesday when Mr. Blocker will share about production.
Fall Conferences
Thank you to the homeroom parents who have already signed up for conferences. If you have not scheduled a conference yet, you will receive a reminder email from me with the link to Sign Up Genius. Please remember that each family should sign up for one slot.
Subject Update:
ELA (English/Language Arts)
- Spelling - The Lesson 9 pretest will be given on Monday. The students will be assigned homework during the week to practice their words, and a final test will be given Friday. *Starting the week of October 20th, students will only be able to print 15 words "just in case" their cursive still needs work. Keep practicing correct letter formation at home!
- English - We will continue our unit on capitalization and punctuation. Students will learn how to write titles correctly. A quick quiz over correcting sentences, proper nouns and adjectives, abbreviations, and titles is scheduled for Wednesday. Then we will explore the many uses of commas.
- Reading - The students will continue to work with the story, A Boy Called Slow. As we read this text again, students will identify character traits of Slow at various stages of his life, and cite evidence from the text as proof of each trait. Students will also develop their own Native American names in the tradition of the Lakota Sioux. "A Boy Called Slow Vocabulary Quiz" is scheduled for Tuesday!
Science - Ask your child how we connected various food chains to form a classroom food web. Next week, we will discover how only 10% of energy is passed from one organism to the next one in a food chain using a pyramid-shaped model.
Social Studies - The students will learn about the Battle of the Spanish Armada. Then we will read about Jamestown, the first successful English colony in North America. Why was Jamestown successful whereas Roanoke Island was a failed attempt to establish a colony? We will compare/contrast these colonies to answer this question.
Mrs. Strong's Math Class - There is a homework review scheduled for Monday over multiplication patterns, estimation, and various methods of multiplying whole numbers. Then we will multiply decimals, work more with exponents, and express really large numbers in scientific notation.
Mark Your Calendar:
Oct. 22 - Junior Achievement (Session #3)
Oct. 23 - Bus Driver Appreciation
Oct. 27 - 31 - Fall Conference Week
