Mr. Wozniak’s Classroom Blog

There is no homework tonight, but I would like the surveys I sent home about our Greenfield Village trip returned as soon as possible.  It is important because we need to pay well in advance and arrange transportation and chaperones.

I also am in need of drivers and chaperones for our Rouge River water testing field trip.  As of right now I have two chaperones which means only half the class would go.  Please let me know if you can drive and chaperone for this field trip on April 30.

Each fifth grader was given a form to sign up for middle school elective classes, and I am still waiting for many students to return those.

I am also waiting for O.L. Smith t-shirt order forms to be returned, our very generous PTA buys a shirt for all our graduates.

The 5th grade baby picture contest will be under way soon.  Please send in a baby picture of your child for the contest.

Ms. Popovski’s last day is Friday, we will have a celebration in the afternoon.  I have asked all students to voluntarily bring in $2 to help toward her gift from the class.

Students with missing assignments need to work each night to catch up.  This cardmarking ends April 4, with a week off for vacation, so time is running out.

Homework is Study Link 5.4 on equivalent fractions.  To find equivalent fractions multiply both the numerator and denominator by the same number or divide both the numerator and denominator by the same number.

The mathematical rational for this is:

3/4 x (3/3) = 9/12   3/4 is equivalent to 9/12 .   This is mathematically correct because you have taken the number 3/4 and multiplied it by 1  (3/3 = 1).  Any number times 1 always equals the original number.  It is the same when dividing by one.

Homework tonight is to complete Study Links 5.1 and 5.2 and to also be ready for a test tomorrow in division. Most students have mastered division and won’t need any additional studying for the test.

Students were given the list of spelling words for our first Spelling Bee to be held on January 11. The ten top students will advance to a second spelling bee at Long where a Long School champion will be crowned. Our champion will advance to a Wayne County district spelling bee on March 1. From there a single student will represent The Detroit News at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. For more information you can go to
the website www.detnews.com/spellingbee

Please practice division over the break. We will have our test the week we get back. Students may take AR tests from home for December.

Have a great holiday break!!!!!!!

Breaking News - Tuesday, December 18 will be the last school day before vacation due to the Muslim holiday beginning on the 19th.

Homework tonight is to complete the reading packet for the story Beyond the Horizon that we started in class.   Also, students must complete the spelling packet for the week.

In honor of Miss Zigman’s last day, we will have a celebration at 2:00 tomorrow afternoon.  Students may bring in a board game to play if they wish.

Homework tonight is to complete page 102 in the Math Journal.

Our Book-It winners enjoyed lunch at Pizza Hut today.  10 kids have gone each month.  Everyone is capable of earning the trip, it’s just a matter of who is self motivated.

Homework tonight is a division review worksheet. The sheet is to help students review for the division quiz tomorrow. Study this weeks spelling words for the test tomorrow. Also, book orders are due tomorrow.

Homework is to complete pages 108 and 112 in Math Journal #1.

Permission slips went home for Meals on Wheels caroling, scheduled for Tuesday, December 11.  Our Book-It winners will also be going to Pizza Hut that day so I can use the same drivers and permission slip.  Kids not going to Pizza Hut may want to bring lunch to school because we are not guaranteed to be back by lunch time.

Homework tonight is to complete the Spelling/Grammar pack if it was not completed in school. Students also need to complete Study Links 4.1 and 4.2.
Today we started a new math unit on division. We start with the strategy called partial products. Students divide part of the problem at a time, using nice round numbers, gradually narrowing in on the answer.

Example: 471/3

start by using 100, 3 x 100 = 300

471 - 300 = 171 left still to divide

now try 50, 3 x 50 = 150

171 - 150 = 21 left still to divide

now try 7, 3 x 7 = 21 and there is now nothing left to divide.

The answer is the sum of the partial quotients 100 + 50 + 7 = 157