Every Day Counts Element Organizer

Every Day Counts® Element Organizer

Name of Element______Measurement ______Grade ____5_____ Months Concepts and Skills Materials Notes August/Septem NONE ber

October NONE

November NONE

December NONE

January Integrate measurement with TR 3 (1 copy) 1 copy to Think in inches and feet, fractions write inches as feet, cut and tape three strips. visualize fraction parts of a foot. P 79 – 80 mixed numbers, and Color construction paper, And a Referent in the classroom. fractional parts. self sticky notes, ruler, one copy of TR 20.

February Markings for fractions of an 2 copies of TR 21, one P 91 helpful hints, perimeter inch between 0 and 1, copy TR 20, modeling concepts many activities using P 92-98 integrate measurement and clay plastic milk measurement through out these fractions, equivalence among container, one pan pgs refer to 98 for end of the 16ths 8ths 4ths and halves… balance, copy of TR 20, month… to write ounces as fractions TR 3, plastic knife. of a pound, record with mixed numbers, write cups as fractions of quarts and gallons, mixed numbers and fractions cups pints quarts gallons March Construct and measure See p 106 angles, use of a protractor, See helpful hints p 109 P 106 – 109 recognize angles, acute, right, obtuse and reflex angles, a circle is 360 degrees, geometric terminology. April Convert milliliters to liters, See p 118 See helpful hint p 120 use decimals to express milli P 118 – 120 as parts of the whole, add decimals to the thousandth place. May/June None