Happy Thanksgiving 5th grade!

Humanities

The fifth graders worked diligently today on their evidence-based reading responses to the book Wonder, including writing book reviews. They were also excited to brainstorm choices for their upcoming independent book projects. They have begun to study India and are selecting specific topics to focus on for individual work after we return from Thanksgiving.

Hebrew

During the past couple of weeks we have been focusing on family trees and family relations.

This week students learned how to add the concept of age in all forms (plural, singular, masculine, feminine) when talking or writing about someone.

In addition, students had listening comprehension activities on the material.

Math

During this short week, the fifth graders finished learning unit two (More Calculations with Whole Numbers) materials by finishing with dividing with a 2-digit quotient as well as dividing multiple digits with a 2-digit divisor.

Next week, we will review for the upcoming Unit Two test, which is scheduled for Thursday, November 30th – Friday, December 1st.

For your reference, Unit Two descriptions are written below.

Unit Two: More Calculations with Whole Numbers

Calculations with Parentheses
Understand the order of operations.
Represent an expression as a mathematical phrase with numbers and operation signs.
Compute expressions in parenthesis.
Use distributive property.
Methods for Mental Calculation
Use mental math strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.
Use mental math strategies to solve multiplication problems.
Word Problems
Understand word problems with bar models.
Solve word problems with bar models.
Multiplication by a 2-digit Whole Number
Multiply multi-digit numbers by a 2-digit number.
Division by a 2-digit Whole Number
Divide a whole number by tens.
Divide a 2-digit or 3-digit number by a 2-digit number when the quotient is 2 digits.
Divide a 2-digit or 3-digit number by a 2-digit number where the quotient is 1 digit.
Divide a 3-digit number by a 2-digit number where the quotient is 2-digits.
Divide a 4-digit number by a 2-digit whole number.