Monday, October 5, 2015

Skills We Are Learning!

Hi,

Please see the following for a list of topics that were discussed or will be explored!

  • Asking and answering questions while reading literary text 
  • Determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text
  • Describe characters in a story (e.g. their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
  • Identify how to punctuate dialogue 
  • Discuss how we can revise our writing 
  • Solve two-step word problems using addition and subtraction
  • Identify arithmetic patterns and explain them using properties of operations (such as an odd number + odd number = even number or 2 times a number is always even). Examples of patterns are 17, 22, 27, ___, ___, ___;  ___, 18, 27, 36, ___, ___; 72, 68, ____, 60, ___
  • Add and subtract fluently within 1000
  • Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 × 7.
  • Use multiplication within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem