This Week in Room 8 (10/16- 10/20)

ELA:
This week we will continue to learn about families. We will make connections and learn from others in our class.

Skills that we will be working on this week include the following:

• Continued work with common and proper nouns
• Introduction to pronouns
• Possessive nouns ('s to show ownership)
• Adding -ing with and without spelling changes (one vowel followed by two consonants add -ing and one vowel followed by one consonant- double the consonant and add -ing)
• Capitalizing dates (days of the week and months)
• Including transition words (First, Next, Then, and Last) to signal event order
• Special titles (Mr., Mrs., Ms., and Dr.)
• Short e

Word Wall Words:

think   let   going   again   may

Rooted Mind:
This week we introduced -struc and -struct which means to build.

Roots we have learned so far include the following:
uni- means one
tri- means three
form- means to shape
vaca/vac- means empty

Math:

• This week we will be learning how to solve word problems and show our strategies. 
• We will also learn how to solve word problems where we add three numbers together.
• Commutative Property (identifying that 3 +2 = 5 is the same as 2 + 3 = 5 and 3 x 2 = 6 is the same as 2 x 3 = 6).
• Associative Property (To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second  two  numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12).
• Identify Property for addition- The sum of any number plus zero equals the original number.
• Identify Property for multiplication- The product of any number multiplied by 1 is the original number.

Science:

We will use what we know about plants to synergize as a team to design and construct a plant in the SMART lab that will be able to stand without human support.

Leader in Me:
We will be introducing our own plus/deltas (plus- something we do well, delta- something we want to change) as we set personal goals for the classroom.