Author: kotoole

Hammond Headlines
Monday, September 10, 2012

Language Arts:
Target Skill: Determine Author’s Purpose
Comprehension Strategy: Determine Important Information
Theme Question: How do we achieve common ground?
Focus Question: What do we share across cultures?
Genre: Informational text
Math:
We are beginning our Prime Time Unit. This unit focuses on factors and multiples.
This Week’s Learning Targets:
Understand relationships among factors, multiples, divisors, and products.
Use rectangles to represent the factor pairs of numbers
Develop strategies for finding factors and multiples, least common multiples, and greatest common factors.
Science: We will begin our first science rotation this week! Our class will be learning about the Wetlands with Mrs. Kester.

Social Studies:
Chapter 9: Life in Colonial Williamsburg: Learning about daily life in the colonial Virginia capitol.
This Week’s Learning Targets:
Identify important sites in Williamsburg
Describe government, religion, education, social life, trades, and slave life

Spelling Words
Repeat, feast, release, praise, disease, awake, display, beneath, ashamed, sleeve, scale, sheepish, stray, remain, strain, waist, crush, vanish, can’t there’s

Specials:
Monday: Day 2-PE
Tuesday: Day 3 -
Spanish/Music
Wednesday: Day 4 -
Computer
Thursday: Day 5 -
Spanish/Music
Friday: Day 1
Art

News & Notes:
*Tuesday, September 11th is Early Dismissal
*Wednesday, September 12th is Picture Day!
*We are continuing to write our personal Memoirs! All pictures and items will be returned home next week! Thank you for allowing your child to use these items to help with writing.