Curriculum and Homefun

Week of 5/16/16

Curriculum Focus:   
Project based learning

Vocabulary:
Review

Homefun: 

As needed

Assessments: 
None :)

Friday -No weekly timed multiplication test.

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Week of 5/9/16

Curriculum Focus:   Equations

Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison, e.g., interpret 35 = 5 × 7 as a statement that 35 is 5 times as many as 7 and 7 times as many as 5. Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations.

   

Vocabulary:

equations, solutions, inverse operations

Homefun: 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
Wednesday - Equations Quiz

Friday -Equations Test, Weekly timed multiplication test through 12s

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Week of 5/1/16

No TNReady Testing This Week!

Curriculum Focus:   Equations

Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison, e.g., interpret 35 = 5 × 7 as a statement that 35 is 5 times as many as 7 and 7 times as many as 5. Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations.

   

Vocabulary:

equations, solutions, inverse operations

Homefun: 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
Tuesday  - Data, Graphs, and Line Plots Test

Friday - Equations Quiz, Weekly timed multiplication test through 12s

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Week of 4/25/16

Curriculum Focus: Data & Graphs
Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions by using information presented in line plots.

Vocabulary:
Line Plots

Equations

Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison, e.g., interpret 35 = 5 × 7 as a statement that 35 is 5 times as many as 7 and 7 times as many as 5. Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations.

   

Vocabulary:

equations, solutions, inverse operations

Homefun: 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
Tuesday  - Data, Graphs, and Line Plots Quiz
Thursday - Data, Graphs, and Line Plots Test
Friday - Equations Quiz, Weekly timed multiplication test through 12s

Week of 4/18/16

Curriculum Focus: Angle Measurement & Plane Figures

   

Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.

Vocabulary:

Acute angle, acute triangle, adjacent angle, angle, arc, collinear, complementary angles, degree, degree measure of an angle, diagonal, equilateral triangle, figure, interior of an angle, intersecting lines, isosceles triangle, length of an arc, line, line of symmetry, line segment, obtuse angle, obtuse triangle, parallel, perpendicular, point, protractor, ray, right angle, right triangle, scalene triangle, straight angle, supplementary angles, triangle, vertex, vertical angles

Homefun: 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
Tuesday - Angle Measurement & Plane Figures Quiz
Thursday  - Angle Measurement & Plane Figures Test
Friday - Weekly timed multiplication test through 12s.
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Week of 4/11/16

Curriculum Focus: 

• MAPS Testing 
• Wrap Up Measurement
• Continue Area and Perimeter Review
• Begin Angle Measurement & Plane Figures

     Measurement- Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table. For example, know that 1 ft is 12 times as long as 1 in. Express the length of a 4 ft snake as 48 in. Generate a conversion table for feet and inches listing the number pairs (1, 12), (2, 24), (3, 36), …

Area & Perimeter -Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems. For example, find the width of a rectangular room given the area of the flooring and the length, by viewing the area formula as a multiplication equation with an unknown factor    

      Angle Measurement & Plane Figures -

      Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.

Vocabulary:

Measurement - inch, foot, yard, mile, capacity, weight, ounce, pound, ton, millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter, kilometer, milliliter, liter, mass, gram, kilogram, convert, measure

Area & Perimeter -area, perimeter

Angle Measurement & Plane Figures -

Acute angle, acute triangle, adjacent angle, angle, arc, collinear, complementary angles, degree, degree measure of an angle, diagonal, equilateral triangle, figure, interior of an angle, intersecting lines, isosceles triangle, length of an arc, line, line of symmetry, line segment, obtuse angle, obtuse triangle, parallel, perpendicular, point, protractor, ray, right angle, right triangle, scalene triangle, straight angle, supplementary angles, triangle, vertex, vertical angles

Homefun: 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
Tuesday - Measurement Test
Thursday - Area and Perimeter Quiz
Friday - Weekly timed multiplication test through 12s.

Week of 4/4/16

Curriculum Focus:  Continue Measurement, Begin Area and Perimeter Review

  Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table. For example, know that 1 ft is 12 times as long as 1 in. Express the length of a 4 ft snake as 48 in. Generate a conversion table for feet and inches listing the number pairs (1, 12), (2, 24), (3, 36), …

Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems. For example, find the width of a rectangular room given the area of the flooring and the length, by viewing the area formula as a multiplication equation with an unknown factor    

Vocabulary:

inch, foot, yard, mile, capacity, weight, ounce, pound, ton, millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter, kilometer, milliliter, liter, mass, gram, kilogram, convert, measure

area, perimeter

Homefun: 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
Thursday - Measurement Quiz
Friday - MAPS, Weekly timed multiplication test through 12s. (no weekly timed test due to MAPS testing.)

Week of 3/18/16

Curriculum Focus:  

 Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table. For example, know that 1 ft is 12 times as long as 1 in. Express the length of a 4 ft snake as 48 in. Generate a conversion table for feet and inches listing the number pairs (1, 12), (2, 24), (3, 36), …

Vocabulary:

inch, foot, yard, mile, capacity, weight, ounce, pound, ton, millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter, kilometer, milliliter, liter, mass, gram, kilogram, convert, measure

Homefun: 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
Friday - Weekly timed multiplication test through 12s.
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Week of 3/7/16

Curriculum Focus:  Patterns & Expressions

•   Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself. For example, given the rule "Add 3" and the starting number 1, generate terms in the resulting sequence and observe that the terms appear to alternate between odd and even numbers. Explain informally why the numbers will continue to alternate in this way.

Vocabulary:

variable, algebraic expression

Homefun: 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 

Wednesday through Friday - TN Ready Assessments
*No weekly timed multiplication test this week.

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Week of 2/29/16

Curriculum Focus: Wrap up and test Decimals, begin Patterns & Expressions

•   Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself. For example, given the rule "Add 3" and the starting number 1, generate terms in the resulting sequence and observe that the terms appear to alternate between odd and even numbers. Explain informally why the numbers will continue to alternate in this way.

Vocabulary:

variable, algebraic expression

Homefun: 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 

Tuesday - Decimals quiz(Cassidy and Caldwell)
Wednesday - Decimals Test (Faulkner and Caldwell)
Thursday - Decimals Test (Cassidy)
Friday- Mixed Multiplication facts quiz

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Week of 2/22/16

Curriculum Focus: Continue Decimals

•  Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100, and use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100.  For example, express 3/10 as 30/100, and add 3/10 + 4/100 = 34/100.
•   Use decimal notation for fractions with denominators 10 or 100. For example, rewrite 0.62 as 62/100; describe a length as 0.62 meters; locate 0.62 on a number line diagram.
•  Compare two decimals to hundredths by reasoning about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two decimals refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual model. 

Vocabulary:

tenths, hundredths, comparisons/compare, decimal, decimal point

Homefun: finish any unfinished classwork 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Friday- Mixed Multiplication facts quiz

Week of 2/15/16

Curriculum Focus:

•  Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100, and use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100.  For example, express 3/10 as 30/100, and add 3/10 + 4/100 = 34/100.
•   Use decimal notation for fractions with denominators 10 or 100. For example, rewrite 0.62 as 62/100; describe a length as 0.62 meters; locate 0.62 on a number line diagram.
•  Compare two decimals to hundredths by reasoning about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two decimals refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual model. 

Vocabulary:

tenths, hundredths, comparisons/compare, decimal, decimal point

Homefun: finish any unfinished classwork 

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Friday- Decimals Quiz, Mixed Multiplication facts quiz

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Week of 2/8/16

Curriculum Focus:

• Wrap up and Test Adding & Subtracting Fractions & Multiplying Fractions
• Begin Decimals

Vocabulary: review

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Wednesday - Adding and Subtracting Fractions Test (Caldwell & Faulkner)
Thursday - Adding and Subtracting Fractions Test (Cassidy)
Multiplying Fractions Test, Mixed Multiplication facts quiz

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Week of 2/1/16

Curriculum Focus:

• Adding & Subtracting Fractions & Multiplying Fractions

Vocabulary: review

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Friday - Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying Fractions Test, Mixed Multiplication facts quiz

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Week of 1/25/16

Curriculum Focus: 

• We will be completing the TNReady Practice Test (part II) this week.

Vocabulary: review

Homefun:

No homefun.

Assessments: *We did not test last week, due to MAPS testing

Thursday - Division Quiz (Faulkner and Caldwell)
Friday - Division Quiz (Cassidy)  Mixed Multiplication facts quiz

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Week of 1/18/16

Curriculum Focus: 

• Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers. *Due to MAPs testing last week, we will continue with this skill.

• Multiplying and Dividing With Quadrilaterals: Multiplication and Division Review.

Vocabulary: review

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Thursday - Fractions Quiz

Friday - Fractions Test, Mixed Multiplication facts quiz

Week of 1/11/16

Curriculum Focus: 

Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers. 

Vocabulary: review

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Friday -  Mixed Multiplication facts 

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Week of 1/5/16   (School Resumes Tuesday)

Curriculum Focus: 

• Students will compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators by creating commonalities or comparing to benchmark fractions.
• Explain why faction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n x a)/(n x b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.

Vocabulary: review

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Friday -  Mixed Multiplication facts - no quiz today due to CLUE field trip.

Week of 12/14/15

Curriculum Focus: 

Review of 1st Semester Skills

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Wednesday/Thursday - Test over Area and Perimeter

Week of 12/6/15

Curriculum Focus: 

• Students will draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
• Students will apply area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems.

Vocabulary: area, perimeter

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Tuesday - Test over Angles, Rays, Lines, etc. Students will bring home their journals Monday to study and return them Tuesday.
Friday -  Area and Perimeter Quiz, Multiplication facts quiz through 12s

Week of 11/30/15

Curriculum Focus: 

• Students will draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
• Students will compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators by creating commonalities or comparing to benchmark fractions.

Vocabulary:

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. No homework on Tuesday and Thursday this week.  :)

Assessments: 

Friday -  Multiplication facts quiz through 12s

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Week of 11/23/15 

***There is no school Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday due to the Thanksgiving Holiday break.  Have a wonderful break!***

Curriculum Focus: 

• Students will draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
• Students will compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators by creating commonalities or comparing to benchmark fractions.

Homefun:

No Homefun this week!

Assessments: 

No tests this week!

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Week of 11/16/15

Curriculum Focus: 

• Students will draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
• Students will compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators by creating commonalities or comparing to benchmark fractions.
• Explain why faction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n x a)/(n x b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.

Vocabulary:

area, perimeter 

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Tuesday - End of the Module Fractions Test

Friday -  Multiplication facts quiz through 12s

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Week of 11/2/15

Curriculum Focus: 

• Explain why faction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n x a)/(n x b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.
• Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators, e.g., by creating common denominators or numerators, or by comparing to a benchmark fraction such as 1/2.  Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole.  Record the results of comparisons with symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.

Vocabulary:

fraction, denominator, benchmark fractions, numerator, simplest form, equivalent fractions, mixed number, improper fractions

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Tuesday - Equivalent Fractions Quiz

Friday - Fractions Test, Multiplication facts quiz through 12s

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Week of 10/26/15

Curriculum Focus:

• Spiral Review of quarter 1 skills
• Explain why faction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n x a)/(n x b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.

Vocabulary:

fraction, denominator, benchmark fractions, numerator, simplest form, equivalent fractions, mixed number, improper fractions

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Friday, Multiplication/Division facts quiz through 12s
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Week of 9/28/15

Curriculum Focus: We will continue to practice this skill for accuracy.

• Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.

Vocabulary:

dividend, divisor, quotient, fact family, repeated subtraction, multiplicative comparison, additive comparison 

Homefun:

No Homefun this week!  Use this time to prepare and practice for your Native American Project presentations..... and (as always) your multiplication facts of course.  :)

Assessments: 

There will be no assessments this week.  We will be implementing the TN Ready practice test and wrapping up diagnostic testing and iReady assessments for math during class time this week.

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Week of 9/21/15

Curriculum Focus:

• Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.

Vocabulary:

dividend, divisor, quotient, fact family, repeated subtraction, multiplicative comparison, additive comparison 

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. 

Assessments: 

Tuesday, Dividing With One-Digit Divisors Quiz

Friday, Multiplication/Division facts quiz through 12s, Dividing With One-Digit Divisors Test

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Week of 9/14/15

**Please read information regarding turning in homefun for this week.

Curriculum Focus:

• Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.

• Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

• Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison. 

Vocabulary:

dividend, divisor, quotient, fact family, repeated subtraction, multiplicative comparison, additive comparison 

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily. **There is no school on Friday this week.  Students may turn in their homefun on Monday.  Homefun for the following week will go home on Monday, 9/21.

Assessments: 

Thursday, Multiplication/Division facts quiz through 12s

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Week of 9/7/15

Curriculum Focus:

•  Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Vocabulary:

Distributive Property of Multiplication, array,

product, factor, multiples, Commutative

Property, breaking apart

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 

Friday, Multiplication/Division facts quiz through 12s, Lesson Test over Multiplication

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Week of 8/31/15

Curriculum Focus:

• Interpret a multiplication comparison as, e.g., interpret 35=5x7 is 5 times as many as 7and 7 times as many as 5.  Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations.
•  Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Vocabulary:

Distributive Property of Multiplication, array,

product, factor, multiples, Commutative

Property, breaking apart

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 

Monday, Lesson 2 test, Multiplication/Division facts quiz through 12s (We will test on Monday due to our field trip Friday.)   :) 

Friday, Mid-Lesson Quiz over Multiplication and facts quiz though 12s.

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Week of 8/24/15

Curriculum Focus:

• Fluently subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm. 

• Solve multi-step word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding. 

Vocabulary:

Commutative Property of Addition, Associative Property of Addition, Identity Property of Addition, breaking apart, counting on, inverse operations, compensation

Homefun:

Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 

Friday, Lesson 2 test, Multiplication/Division facts quiz through 12s (We will test on Monday due to our field trip Friday.)   :)

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Week of 8/17/15

Curriculum Focus:

• Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.

• Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm. 

• Solve multi-step word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding. 

Vocabulary:
Commutative Property of Addition, Associative Property of Addition, Identity Property of Addition, breaking apart, counting on, inverse operations, compensation

Homefun:
Students will write assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 

Monday, (Cassidy ONLY) 
Lesson 1 Assessment (Students will bring their math journals home to study Friday night.  They must bring them back the following day to use as a classroom instructional aid.) 

Friday, Lesson 2 quiz, Multiplication/Division facts quiz through 12s

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Week of 8/10/15

Curriculum Focus:

• Compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place using >, =, and< symbols to record the results of comparisons. 
• Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.

Vocabulary:
tenth
hundredth

Homefun:
Students will write their assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
Tuesday, Lesson 1 mid-lesson quiz

***UPDATE***
Friday, (Caldwell & Faulkner ONLY) 
Lesson 1 Assessment (Students will bring their math journals home to study Thursday night.  They must bring them back the following day to use as a classroom instructional aid.) 

Friday, Multiplication/Division facts quiz through 12s (all classes)

Monday, (Cassidy ONLY) 
Lesson 1 Assessment (Students will bring their math journals home to study Friday night.  They must bring them back the following day to use as a classroom instructional aid.) 

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Week of 8/3/15

Curriculum Focus:

• Read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place using >, =, and< symbols to record the results of comparisons. 
• Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.

Vocabulary:
expanded form
word form
tenth
hundred

Homefun:
Students will write their assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
Lesson 1 quiz, Multiplication facts quiz through 12s

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Week of 7/27/15

Curriculum Focus:

• Establishing a positive classroom culture.
• Teamwork and community building.
• Accepting responsibility for learning and goal setting.
• Benchmark Pretest
• Recognize that in a multi digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents to its right. 

Vocabulary:
decimal
decimal place
decimal point
period

Homefun:
Students will write their assignments in their planners.  Please check them daily.

Assessments: 
No assessments this week.