Literacy
Today we discussed a VERY IMPORTANT during reading strategy, CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING. It is one that you should use often. Depending on the difficulty of the text, you stop and ask yourself two questions (fiction text):
Who was it about?
What happened?
When you are doing this, you are SUMMARIZING the text using YOUR OWN WORDS. A summary is a short account of the most important things that happened in a story. If you are able to check for understanding effectively, summarizing will be easy.

Tomorrow you will be given a book to take home to practice reading FLUENTLY and CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING. On Wednesday, you will be reading your books in groups to practice reading and checking for understanding. 

I modeled check for understanding using a pretty remarkable true story. Summarize "Miracle on Main Street" for a parent.  

Math

Today we continued with expressing a number either as tens OR hundreds OR thousands OR ten thousands (grade 5). If you had one type of base-ten block, could you show a specific number? 

The yellow pages in your duotang are to help you review the big idea of the lesson. The white pages are the questions. Today you had the same question repeated 3 or 4 times.

Make sure you create a table in your notebook. Fill it in for the numbers you choose from the list. Then answer the questions. Help is available using MathUP on-line. Go back to the weekend post to get our class access code. Tomorrow a game will come home to practice.

Tomorrow we will the decomposing numbers into places using a place value chart. This is probably more familiar to you. Once we know where to put a number on a place value chart, we can represent it many different ways including:

• base-ten blocks
• expanded form words
• expanded form numbers
• standard form

Sound familiar? I hope so!

Science

Today we began our unit on "Habitats". What are the five things that a plant or animal need to survive?

Think about what your interested in researching about habitats.......

Weather permitting, tomorrow we will go out and explore the different habitats near our school. 

If you have not finished the following assignments, you must stay in at lunch recess. Most of you are almost done.

• All About Me poster
• Dice
• Stretchy Sentences
• Hand art

Physical Education

It was hot today, but you persevered and ran beautifully. Go Team Hollis!

Reminders:

• Family BBQ on Wednesday after school
• Pink Emergency Information forms
• Blue Parent form
• $10.00 for agenda