The Jones Journal
Updates from The Flock // October 2015
Contact Mr. Jones
Email: scott_jones@hboe.org
Website: theflockjwr.com
Location: J W Reason Elementary School, Cemetery Road, Hilliard, OH, United States
Phone: 614-921-5900
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Flock-Mr-Jones-Fifth-Grade/381396881879509
Twitter: @TheFlockJWR
Important Dates
Portfolio Presentations (student-led conferences)
This meeting will be a student-led conference, which is NOT a traditional parent/teacher conference. Your child will lead the first part of the conference to present his or her accomplishments and goals. That means your child WILL attend his/her conference since he/she is leading it!
See below for more details about student-led conferences.
More information about signing up for your child's presentation will be sent in the coming days.
Monday, Nov 16, 2015, 03:30 PM
J W Reason Elementary School, Cemetery Road, Hilliard, OH, United States
***** Notes From Mr. Jones *****
Parent Teacher Conferences
I've very excited to meet with you in November for your child's PORTFOLIO PRESENTATION.
This "portfolio presentation" is NOT a traditional parent/teacher conference. Your child will lead the first part of the conference to present his or her accomplishments and goals. After your child’s presentation, parents and teachers may use the remaining time to discuss strengths, concerns, issues, and academics. This format provides an opportunity for your child to…
- Share samples of work
- Learn self-evaluation
- Be accountable for his/her work
- Communicate with you about his/her progress and goals.
Reading At Home
Get To Know Mr. Jones
A Quick Video to Ponder
What Are We Learning?
Reading
We have just started discussing characters in our books. For example, we're spending our reading time looking at how readers use character's thoughts and the story as a whole to deepen their understanding of the text. This year, students will study relationships, friendships, struggles of book characters. The journeys that characters experience, both externally and internally, in a book. Plus, how to at first live as a character and later step out of that character’s shoes to grow big ideas about the character. Here are some questions you can ask your child as he/she is reading at home:
- “Do you like or relate to one character more than you do to another? In what ways?”
- “Why did the character do that? Why did other characters react in different ways?”
- “How come the character is feeling that way? Do other characters feel differently?”
- “Do you think he (or she) did the right thing?”
** I strongly encourage students to read about 3 hours at home per week.
Our current read aloud novel is Fish In A Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt.
Writing
STUDENTS WOULD LOVE COMMENTS FROM SOMEONE OTHER THAN THEIR CLASSMATES. CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW TO COMMENT ON ANY OF THE BLOG POSTS!
** Ask your child the difference between a "dead-end comment" vs. a "highway comment."
Math
Our current math unit focuses on multiplying & dividing fractions. Your child will be exploring their previous understandings of multiplication and division (of whole numbers) to multiply and divide fractions. Students will understand:
- Understand that a fraction represents the division of one whole number by another whole number
- Represent a fraction as division using visual models
- Explain how fractions represent division and write a remainder as a fraction
- Understand that an equation such as ¼ x 8 is said as one-fourth of eight or interpreted as ¼ of 8 pies
- Multiply a fraction by a whole number
- Multiply a fraction by a fraction
- Solve problems involving division of fractions
- Understand that multiplication and division are inverse operations
Social Studies
Here are some of what students are learning:
- Latitude and longitude can be used to make observations about location and generalizations about climate.
- Regions can be determined using various criteria (e.g. landform, climate, population, cultural or economic).
- Variations among physical environments within the Western Hemisphere influence human activities. Human activities also alter the physical environment.