Ms. Whittaker’s Blog

Math
Current Unit of Study/Topic
Chapter 5/ Fractions and Decimals
Mon- Holiday
Tues- Think Link Test #2
Wed- Lesson 5-4 Least Common Multiple
Thu- Lesson 5-5 comparing and ordering fractions
Fri- Lesson 5-6 Writing Decimals as Fractions

Enriched Math
Current Unit of Study /Topic
Chapter 7/ Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Course 1 book

Mon- Holiday
Tues- Think Link Test #2
Wed- Lesson 7-1 & 7-2 Estimating Products
Thu- Lesson 7-3 Multiplying Mixed numbers
Fri- Quiz over lessons 7-1 thru 7-3

Social Studies:
Tuesday: TLW create a pop-up book based on three Chinese Dynasties.
Wednesday: TLW complete a Spanish lesson. *Chap. 5 vocab.
Thursday: Garcia-Guidance
Friday: TLW show master of chapter 5 vocabulary*Chapter 5 vocab. test

Week of Oct 29th

Math
Current Unit of Study/Topic
Ch 4: Multiplying and Dividing Decimals

Mon- lesson 4-4 Dividing by decimals
Tues- lesson 4-4b Determining Reasonable Answers
Wed- lesson 4-5 Perimeter
Thu- Review ch 4 skills
Fri- Test over ch 4 skills

Enriched Math
Current Unit of Study /Topic
Chapter 6: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Course 1 book

Mon- lesson 6-2 Estimating Sums and Differences
Tues- lesson 6-2B Problem solving
Wed- lesson 6-3 Add & Subtract- Like Denominators
Thu- Mid- Chapter 6 test
Fri- lesson 6-4 Add and subtract – unlike Denominators

Week of Oct 22nd

Math
Current Unit of Study/Topic
Ch. 4 Multiplying and Dividing Decimals

Mon- Review ch 3 skills
Tues- Test over all of ch 3 and Spiral quiz
Wed- Lesson 4-2 Multiplying Decimals
Thu- Lesson 4-3 Dividing Decimals by whole Numbers
Fri- Lesson 4-4 Dividing Decimals by Decimals

Enriched Math
Current Unit of Study /Topic
Ch. 5 Fractions and Decimals
Course 1 book

Mon- Lesson 5-6 Write Decimals as fractions
Tues- Lesson 5-7 Writing fractions as Decimals
Wed- Review ch 5 skills
Thu- Test over all of ch 5 skills and Spiral quiz
Fri- Begin ch 6 (adding and subtracting fractions)

Social Studies:
Monday: Spanish TLW be Introduced to Egyptian Newspapers
Tuesday: TLW Work on Egyptian News papers
Wednesday: TLW Review for test tomorrow. TLW Work on Egyptian Newspapers
Thursday: TLW show master of Vocab./comprehension for chapter 3. Test on Chapter 3
Friday:TLW present Egyptian Newspapers OR begin Chap. 4 voc

Agenda week of October 15th

Math
Current Unit of Study/Topic
Chapter 3: Decimals

Mon- lesson 3-3 Rounding decimals
Tues- Quiz over mid chapter 3
Wed- lesson 3-4 Estimating Sums and differences
Thu- lesson 3-5 Adding and subtracting decimals
Fri- lesson 3-5B Choose the method of computation

Enriched Math
Current Unit of Study /Topic
Chapter 5: Fractions and Decimals
Using Course 1 Book

Mon- lesson 5-3 Mixed numbers and improper fractions
Tues- Quiz over mid ch 5
Wed- lesson 5-4a Make and organized list
Thu- lesson 5-4 Least common Multiple
Fri- lesson 5-5 Comparing and ordering Fractions

Social Studies:
Monday: TLW create matchbook vocab. SPI #6.2.4
Tuesday: TLW analyze Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt (Chapter 3 lesson 2)
SPI # 6.5.11
Wednesday: TLW analyze the importance of Rosetta Stone in understanding Heirogliphics
(worksheet) SPI # 6.1.7
Thursday: TLW Analyze the social pyramid of Ancient Egypt (pg. 116) SPI #6.4.4
TLW Read and discuss Chapter 3 lesson 4
Friday: TLW observe the correct way to creat Egyptian Newspaper

Agenda week of October 8th

Math
Current Unit of Study/Topic
Chapter 3: Decimals

Mon- Fall Break
Tues- Fall Break
Wed- Review of math skills
Thu- lesson 3-3 Rounding decimals
Fri- Quiz over mid chapter 3

Enriched Math
Current Unit of Study /Topic
Chapter 5: Fractions and Decimals
Using Course 1 Book

Mon- Fall Break
Tues- Fall Break
Wed- Review of math skills
Thu- lesson 5-3 Mixed numbers and improper fractions
Fri- Quiz over mid ch 5

Social Studies:
Monday: Fall Break
Tuesday: Fall Break
Wednesday: Spanish-Chapter 3 vocab.
Thursday: Chapter 3 lesson 1
Friday: Chapter 3 lesson 2

Week of October 1st

Math
Current Unit of Study/Topic
Chapter 2 and 3: Statistics and Graphs, and Decimals

Mon- Co-ordinate grids
Tues- Review of ch 2 skills
Wed- Test over all of ch 2
Thu- lesson 3-1 representing decimals
Fri- lesson 3-2 comparing and ordering decimals

Enriched Math
Current Unit of Study /Topic
Ch 3 Statistics: Analyzing Data, and
Begin ch 5, Fractions and Decimals
Course 2 book on Monday and Course 1 book remainder of the week

Mon- Review of ch 3 skills
Tues- test over ch 3 skill
Wed- review of prime factorization
Thu- lesson 5-1 Greatest Common Factor
Fri- lesson 5-2 Simplifying Fractions

Math
Current Unit of Study/Topic
Chapter 3: Statistics and Graphs

Mon- lesson 2-5 Stem and Leaf Plot
Tues- lesson 2-6 Mean
Wed- lesson 2-7 Median, Mode, Range
Thu- lesson 2-8 Analyzing Graphs
Fri- Co-ordinate Grids

Enriched Math
Current Unit of Study /Topic
Ch 3 Statistics:Analyzing Data
Course 2 book

Mon- lesson 3-2a Use a graph
Tues- lesson 3-3 Making Predictions
Wed- Lesson 3-4 Mean, Median, Mode
Thu- lesson 3-5 Stem and Leaf Plots
Fri- lesson 3-7 Misleading statistics

Come out and support our Lady Stallions Volleyball team…Our next Scheduled game is this Friday, (Sept. 21st) at 4:30. We are competing against Collierville Middle School, and we are playing at the D.A.C. (formerly known as the Community Center..located on Powell Road)

Essay Contest- “Why is music important to our community?”

The best written essay received from one elementary, middle and high school student will receive a 6 month scholarship to Bartlett Music Academy.

For more information and a printable registration form, please visit http://www.bartlettmusicacademy.com .

Math
Current Unit of Study/Topic
Ch 2 - Statistics and Graphs

Mon- lesson 2-2 Bar Graphs and Line Graphs
Tues- Work on Project (Bring Colored pencils/crayons)
Wed- Lesson 2-3 Circle Graphs (Projects Due at beginning of class)
Thu- lesson 2-4 Making predictions
Fri- Mid-Chapter 2 Test

Enriched Math
Current Unit of Study /Topic
Ch 2- Applying Decimals

Mon- lesson 2-5 & 2-6 Powers of 10 and Dividing Decimals
Tues- lesson 2-7 Decimals and Fractions
Wed- Review of ch. 2 skills
Thu- Test over ch 2 skills
Fri- Begin ch 3