Week of October 1, 2018

                 
 

Happy Monday Everyone,

     It was a great weekend for football!! The Jags, The Tide, and my Rattlers won!! Wohoo!!

     This week in math we will take our Module 2 Test. The test will cover all of the work we have done with measurement systems. There will be questions for the metric system and the customary system. Students will be able to use their reference sheet for conversions. Please make sure your child brings their math journal to school on Wednesday.
     We will begin Module 3 this week after our measurement test. In Module 3 we will begin with a review of factors, products, and arrays. We will learn how to use the associative property to find factors of a number. With the associative property you start with a multiplication fact that you know and continue breaking the numbers apart into multiplication facts that equals numbers in the facts before it. For example you can find the factors of 72 using the method below:
72 = 6 x 12                                     Factors of 72 
        6 x (2 x 6)                               6, 12
        (6 x 6) x 2                               2, 36
         6 x (3 x 4)
        (6 x 4) x 3                                3, 24
        (6 x 3) x 4                                4, 18
        (2 x 3) x (3 x 4)
        (3 x 3) x (2 x 4)                       9, 8
                                                        1, 72 Every number has 1 and itself as a factor
     We will also be discussing if a one number is a factor of a number then all of that's numbers factors are also factors of that number. Using 72 from the example above, since 6 is a factor of 72 then 2 and 3 will also be factors of 72 since 2 x 3 = 6. 
      Students will also learn about prime and composite numbers. A prime number is a number that only has two factors, 1 and itself.  Fun fact: 2 is the only even prime number. A composite number is a number that has more than two factors. Another fun fact: both odd and even numbers can be composite. Fun fact #3: 1 is neither prime nor composite.
     We will take our final timed quiz of the nine weeks this Friday. The last quiz of the quarter counts as a quiz grade instead of as a classwork grade. This will also be the last one that the students will have three minutes. In two weeks, when we take the first one of the second nine weeks students will have 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

     In science this week we will continue to learn about matter. This week we will learn about the Law of Conservation of Mass. This law states that the mass of the an object is equal to the sum of it's parts. 

     In social studies this week we will continue learning about the early people that lived in Florida. Students should chapter 2 lesson 2 and complete the worksheet that goes with the lesson. 
     

Have a WONDERFUL week,
Aesha Johnson