"What's Going On In Our World"
Mrs. Sadler's 5th grade class
October 19, 2017
Mathematician's Corner
As mathematicians we have began our Chapter on Multiplication. As 5th graders, students will need to be able to multiply 2 and 3 digit numbers. Chapter 5 started with prime factorization, and exponents. This week we will work on patterns in multiplication, solving word problems by drawing a table, and using partial products and the distributive property to multiply numbers. Please make sure that students are studying their multiplication facts daily.
Here are some math websites that students can practice and use at home. Usernames and Passwords should be written down inside of agendas.
https://student.frontrowed.com/#login
https://xtramath.org/#/home/index
Question to ask Students during Discussions about Math
- What strategies can be used to multiply whole numbers?
Chapter 5 Math Quiz on Thursday, October 26.
Scientist's Corner
Our time spent with our resident scientist, Mrs. Umberger was incredible. Students were able to investigate watersheds in different areas. As scientists they made predictions, recorded data, and conducted investigations. We also started to discuss the features of the ocean floor. Through investigating the features of the ocean floor, we realized that the same landforms that exist on land also exist on the ocean floor. This week we will continue our discussion on the features of the ocean floor, and begin to brainstorm ways we can model the ocean floor.
Questions to Ask Students During Discussions about Science
- What are the features of the ocean floor?
- How do continental landforms compare to oceanic landforms?
Science Standards
- Indicator:5.E.3A.2 Develop and use models to describe and compare the characteristics and locations of the landforms on continents with those on the ocean floor (including the continental shelf and slope, the mid-ocean ridge, the rift zone, the trench, and the abyssal plain).
- Indicator:5.E.3B.2 Develop and use models to explain the effect of the movement of ocean water (including waves, currents, and tides) on the ocean shore zone (including beaches, barrier islands, estuaries, and inlets).
Historian's Corner
This week we continued our Westward Expansion Unit of Study. A highlight of our week was studying WestWard Expansion songs in order to gain different perspectives from the WestWard Expansion Era. We also discussed ways that the geography of the land influenced how individuals traveled and settled on land. This week we will discuss the conflict and cooperation that existed between ethnic groups of the West.
- 5-2.1 Analyze the geographic and economic factors that influenced westward expansion and the ways that these factors affected travel and settlement, including physical features of the land; the climate and natural resources; and land ownership and other economic opportunities.
- 5-2.2 Summarize how technologies (such as railroads, the steel plow and barbed wire), federal policies (such as subsidies for the railroads and the Homestead Act), and access to natural resources affected the development of the West.
- 5-2.3 Identify examples of conflict and cooperation between occupational and ethnic groups in the West, including miners, farmers, ranchers, cowboys, Mexican and African Americans, and European and Asian immigrants.
- 5-2.4 Explain the social and economic effects of westward expansion on Native Americans; including opposing views on land ownership, Native American displacement, the impact of the railroad on the culture of the Plains Indians, armed conflict, and changes in federal policy.