Janice Raper

Hurley Elementary School, AIG

Grades 4 - 5, Reading and Math

Grade 3, Enrichment

Welcome Back to School

Dream - Believe - Dare - Do!!

Concept for the year:  Relationships

November 2 - 6

Our theme for this year is Dream, Believe, Dare, Do - the Disney Way!  Walt Disney lived his life by setting goals, believing in himself, and accomplishing great things. 

Fifth Grade Reading/Language Arts: This is our last week of Nature's Fury.  We will read selections on Volcanoes and have several activities to complete.  Fifth graders will have 5 Centers to complete this week - two centers on Thursday and 3 on Friday.  We will have the COW both days for our research!  Students will also finish their mini Earthquake foldable, their poetry from last week, and one group work assignment.  Fifth graders will also begin vocabulary unit 4 - man, manu, metr, meter, multi-, and ped.

Fourth Grade Reading/Language Arts: Fourth grade will finish Theme 2 this week reading a great selection - A Very Important Day.  Our work this week will be in reading comprehension, dictionary skills, multiple meaning words, possessive nouns, and apostrophes. Spelling this week will focus on The final silent E rule. Our Spelling test and Centers will be on Thursday.  A guest speaker, Andrew's mom, will speak to us on Wednesday about her Very Important Day - becoming a US citizen!  Students will have this week to finish their book reports, poems, and one group activity.

Next Socratic Seminar - Friday, November 6!!  Topic - And Still the Turtle Watched.  Everyone will receive discussion questions on Monday to help guide their preparation for the Seminar.  

Singapore Math this week will begin a new concept - Model Drawing to solve problems.  We will have one problem a day to solve.  This will be guided as a group activity this week.

Math 4: We hope to finish multiplication this week. Singapore Math Daily problems and Model Drawing will take place each day.  On Friday, we will review with our EOG booklets.

Math 5: Singapore Math and Math Stars VIII will be worked on this week.  Singapore Math Daily problems and Model drawing will take place each day.  We will continue with 2 digit divisors this week.

I am always available to parents.  Please email me with any questions or concerns.  I post our week's activities by Monday morning of each week, and I post all homework assignments daily. Please check the box on this page to be notified to any change on this website.

Homework Assignments:

Reading 4:  Prepare for Friday's Seminar!  WB#161,162,163,164,165 - due Friday;WB # 170.  Spelling WS # 29.  Centers from LAST week only.  

Reading 5:  Prepare for Friday's Seminar!  Centers from LAST week and Earthquake foldable.

Vocabulary 5:

Math 4: pp. 156-157 (1,4,5,6,7,8)

Math 5: WB # 35-36;  Math Stars VIII - due Friday