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Happy Halloween! We have been busy

this month! Academically, the students
continued their focus on our concept of
CAUSE/EFFECT through the lens of
World War II. We finished Number the
We took a break from factors and multiples to do a STEM challenge.
Stars, A Day for Vincent Chin & Me and Vive
After examining a number of cereal boxes students were asked to predict La Paris. Each novel related to World
and then determine which box had the greatest volume and surface area. War II from different viewpoints & time
Drawing from the knowledge gained over the course of our unit on
periods, which has allowed the students to
volume, teams were given one piece of poster board and challenged to
think about cause & effect in relation to
create a cereal box with the greatest volume. It has been exciting to
World War II from many different
watch teams creatively problem solve as they work through this task.
perspectives, as well. We are utilized the
text to make inferences, determine theme
Concepts Covered in the Factors and Multiples Unit:
and compare both characters & settings.
-Classifying numbers at prime or composite
In addition, we focused on summarizing
-Recognizing which situations call for common factors, common
non-fiction text & information. The books
multiples, the least common multiple, or the greatest common factor have also yielded some amazing
-Developing strategies for finding factors and multiples, least common
conversation about tough topics.
multiples and greatest common factors
-Recognizing and using the fact that every whole number can be written This month we also completed our quarter
in exactly one way as a product of prime numbers
one project for readingyou probably
-Using exponential notation to write repeated factors
heard the shout of relief from across town.
-Relating the prime factorization of two numbers to the least common
The students created their own online
presentation, which required lots of
multiple and greatest common factor of two numbers
-Recognizing that the distributive property relates the multiplicative and research on various topics found
throughout the novels. They then chose
additive structures of whole numbers
different pieces of music to represent their
-Using the properties of operations and numbers, including the
findings and answer essential questions
Distributive Property and the Order of Operations convention, to write
from the quarter. Though the projects
equivalent numerical expressions
were primarily managed & completed at
-Using factors and multiples to solve problems, and explain some
school, the students worked hard outside
numerical facts of everyday life
of school, as well, as we battled the
internet security at schooland won! The
will finish presenting their projects next
week and should be so proudthe results
thus far have been really powerful. I love
seeing how they express themselves
through music. Its really incredible.
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Fifth Grade students have been so busy! While covering the fifth grade
unit on volume weve also simultaneously been working on a sixth grade
unit on factors and multiples. This unit will lay the foundation for work
well be doing with fractions, decimals and percentages during quarter 2.

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