Welcome to Room 18 (This site is updated frequently!)
Our class is a learning community in which students are encouraged to be supportive of one another and share knowledge, ideas, questions, and concerns. The academic content is based on the California standards.
Computer lab assignments
Homework Challenge projects
4th grade online resources (Links to state standards in left column)
5th grade online resources (Links to state standards in left column)
Donations and volunteers (includes field trip dates and links for requirements for driving on a field trip and for chaperoning the overnight trips!)
Some of the things we are working on: (revised Nov. 15)
- Division (4th graders do long division by a one digit- number and 5th by two-digit numbers and with decimals)
- Writing summaries and other expository (nonfiction) essays with a clear introduction, body, and conclusion
- Metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, symbolism, imagery
- Cause and effect (4th)
- Negative numbers ( on number lines and in patterns, in word problems such as involving temperature, owing and elevation, simple addition and subtraction)
- Learning about genres such as fable, fantasy, myth, legend, fairytale, science fiction, historical fiction, realistic fiction
Upcoming:
- Coodinate grids
- Rocks and minerals, our changing Earth (erosion, plate tectonics etc.) (4th)
- Earth's water and water cycle and weather (5th)
- Fact, opinion, and inference
Websites supporting some of the district curriculum
Math (Games and complete Student Reference Book online - email teacher for password)
Science (complete textbook online - email teacher for password)
Social studies
PE
Supplemental materials
About our class:
Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction?
Double-bar graph of favorite outdoor games of rooms 17 and 18
Double-bar graph of would you rather be . . . for rooms 17 and 18
Please email me if you have questions.
-- Ms. Betty Buginas bbuginas@hotmail.com |
