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HAUNT Week - October 19-24
This Week at a Glance
Happy Halloween Haunt Week!! I look forward to seeing you this weekend at the most Spooktacular Event of the Season!
Tuesday -Crazy Socks Day
Wednesday - Backwards/Inside Out Day, Music
Thursday- Sports Team Day; First Assignment Report Sent home; Pali Packing List Sent home
Friday- Wear your Haunt Shirt or Black and Orange Marching Band/Color Guard Performance
**Look for information about Pali-Packing, Departure, and Return this Thursday in your folders
Upcoming Events for you Calendar:
10/24 Halloween Haunt
10/26-10/30 Red Ribbon Week
10/30 Collaboration Day - Early Dismissal
11/2-11/6 Pali Mountain
Pali Mountain
District Medical Permission Information
Regardless of your choice, we must have one on file for your student.
If you choose 'no' you will need to sign and return it.
If you choose 'yes' you and your child`s doctor will need to sign and return.
You may electronically submit the form to them for their signature, have them sign, scan and return to me via email if that is easier.
I have attached a link to the document here.
Also, if you use google docs/google drive, there is a great app called DocHub that allows you to edit PDF documents and sign them.
Please return all Pali Forms by the 16th.
Currently I have recieved
Permission Slips from:
Mic
Xander
Audrey
Braden
Maddy
George
Ben
Alyssa
Enrique
David
Sydney
Angel
Ethan
Kelly
Rebecca
Jacob
Joe
Emma
Hanan
Sophia
Aidan
Cade
Dara
Nikila
Ryan
Alec
Alexa
Kendryek
Medical Forms:
Mic
Xander
Audrey
Braden
Ben
Alyssa
Enrique
Maddy
David
Sydney
Ethan
Angel
Kelly
Leo
Rebecca
Jacob
Hanan
Sophia
Aidan
Dara
Ryan
Alexa
Kendryek
Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns at kpatito@lcusd.net
PTA and the Halloween Haunt - Patito Homeroom
Thank you for all your support and for volunteering your time!
If you would like to check the time you signed up for, please check the PTA page on the classroom website.
Science
Biome Projects are Due Monday, October 26, 2015.
Chapter Two Test: Thursday, October 29th.
A chapter two study guide will be coming home Thursday for homework.
Mathematics
Students can find notes and homework on the classroom website under the Mathematics Tab.
There will be no tests or quizzes this week.
This week marks the beginning of our unit on the Division of Fractions
Topics we will be covering this week:
Interpreting and Computing Division of:
- Fractions by Whole Numbers/Visual Models
- Whole Numbers by Fractions /Visual Models
- Fractions by Fractions/Visual Models
- Division Stories - Real World Context
The unit will begin with looking at using working visual models to dividing fractions by whole numbers. While many of the students have a strong understanding of the process involved in division, we ask students to use visual models to continue to strengthen their ability to manipulate number and see numerals as representations of quantity as opposed to an abstract symbol.
Many students find themselves confused when seeing a fraction show up in a division problem. A goal of the visual modeling is to help students see the fraction as a quantity - just like a whole number is a quantity, and that the process is the same- we are simply working with part of a whole, instead of a whole number.
Real-World context word problems (which will be looked at later this week) help students work through what is happening in the problem and when looked at without number, will provide them with insight into how to solve the problem- for example, having students read the problem with no focus on the numbers themselves, just to identify what is happening in the problem and what they need to do will guide them in making sense of the problem.
From here they can add the quantity to the identified.
In these ways, students will strengthen their ability to compute and understand increasingly complex concepts mentally.