Keith, McGriff, & McCoy
Weekly Newsletter
September 28 – October 2, 2015
Math
Language Arts
We will cover the following standards this
week: 4.NBT.5 4 by 1 multiplication and 2 by 2
Stories: The Tale of Despereaux and
“The Boston Molasses Flood of 1919”
multiplication
HOMEWORK:
Monday-Thursday
Study the math vocabulary &
continue to work on your number
project.
*We will have a first nine weeks
math vocabulary test on Thursday,
October 1st. These words can be
found on the back of the
newsletter.
* Also, please continue to work on
your “My Favorite Number”
project that is due Friday, October
2nd!
Science
Chapter 1: Organisms
Graded assignments- Wed- AR test
on The Tale of Despereaux,
Characters of Despereaux quiz
The words for this chapter are: respond,
grow, energy, reproduce, organism,
development, life cycle, life span,
metamorphosis, complete metamorphosis,
incomplete metamorphosis, adaptations,
structures, camouflage, mimicry
Homework:
Chapter 1 Science Vocabulary Test:
Mon.- Reading comprehension on EB
White, reading log
Tues. – “The Case of the Stinky
Dragon” worksheet, reading log
Wed. –Reading log
Thurs.-preposition worksheet, reading
log
THURSDAY
Social Studies
How A Bill Becomes A Law- an in
class grade will be taken Friday
Word Analysis: Greek Root Word- vis/vid- to see or to look
Vocabulary will be introduced on Thursday- cargo, debris, epidemic, explosives, grim, prejudice, shoddily, unconscious,
unleashing
News to Know…
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Chocolate money & the $25 Workbook Fee is past due!
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Please join the PTSO for $5 and purchase a Pirate Pride T-shirt for $10.
Students may wear this shirt every Friday with uniform pants!
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Signed papers come home every Monday. Please look over, discuss with your child,
and sign to return on Tuesdays. Don’t forget to remove all notes and our
newsletter!
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Please save the following and send to school: Box Tops, and empty printer ink cartridges
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Websites are updated every Friday, and Active Parent is updated once a week.
As of August 24 - Your child has been asked to read 90 minutes a week. You are asked to sign their
reading log to verify that they have read. If your child has read their 90 minutes each week by the
end of the 9 weeks, they will receive a PIRATE PRIDE Stick.
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Math First Nine Weeks
Vocabulary Words
(This Test will be Thursday, Oct. 1st)
1. Standard form: A way to write a number that uses only digits.
Example: 4,587,986
2. Expanded form: A number written as the sum of the values of
its digits. Example: 476 = 400 + 70 + 6
Math First Nine Weeks
Vocabulary Words
(continued – test is Thursday, Oct. 1st)
14. Associative Property of Multiplication: Factors can be
regrouped and the product remains the same.
Example: (4 x 1) x 3 = 4 x (1 x 3)
3. Period: In a number, a group of three digits, separated by
commas, starting from the right Example: 4,567
15. Inverse Operations: Operations that undo each other.
Examples: adding is the inverse of subtraction, and multiplication is
the inverse of division
4. Word form: A number written in words.
Example: 4,632 = four thousand, six hundred thirty-two
16. Commutative Property of Addition: Addends can be added in
any order and the sum remains the same. Example: 4 + 8 = 8 + 4
5. Addends: The numbers that are added together to find a sum.
Example: 2 + 7 = 9
addends
6. Factors: The numbers multiplied together to find a product.
Example: 2 x 7 = 14
factors
7. Product: The answer to a multiplication problem.
Example: 2 x 7 = 14
product
8. Array: A set of objects, pictures, or numbers displayed in rows
and columns.
Example:
9. Multiple: The product of any two whole numbers.
10. Commutative Property of Multiplication: Factors can be
multiplied in any order and the product remains the same.
Example: 4 x 5 = 5 x 4
11. Zero Property of Multiplication: The product of any number
and zero is zero. Example: 5 x 0 = 0
12. Identity Property of Multiplication: The product of any
number and one is that number. Example: 4 x 1 = 4
13. Distributive Property of Multiplication: Breaking part
problems into two simpler problems.
Example: 3 x 21 = (3 x 20) + (3 x 1)
17. Identity Property of Addition: The sum of any number and
zero is that number. Example: 7 + 0 = 7
18. Associative Property of Addition: Addends can be regrouped
and the sum remains the same. Example: (8 + 1) + 2 = 8 + (1 + 2)
19. Skip counting: Counting by the multiples of a given number.
Example: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14…
20. Difference: The answer to a subtraction problem.
Example: 7 - 2 = 5
difference
21. Sum: The answer to an addition problem. Example: 7 + 2 = 9
sum
22. Operations of mathematics: Addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division are the four operations of mathematics.
23. Area model: A model showing how to use the distributive
property to find the partial products of a multiplication problem.
Example: 39 x 15