5C News              

December 16

We are learning about:

• Three ways to utilize a remainder: ignore, report as a fraction, round up
• Dividing with zeros
• two digit divisors
• Language used in different text structures to help identify the text structure being read
• Taking notes from complex text and recording on computer documents
• Researching Roanoke, Jamestown and Plimoth
• Discerning implicit main ideas
• How morphology can help with specialized vocabulary

Some activities we did:

• Began a 5th grade MARs project where we research and design a school on Mars
• Got our scooter licences
• Read about animal defenses and found text structure of each chapter
• Worked on our Movie Math project

Notes and Reminders:

• MARS project 12/21 1:30
• Vacation 12/26-1/3