A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will begin a small research project on the Columbian Exchange.  Students will create a compare and contrast presentation of one of the products that was sent to and from Spain during the Columbian Exchange.  We will come up with a class rubric, research on Chromebooks and begin creating the presentations this week.
Essential Questions:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will do a close read from the book Teammates about the challenges Jackie Robinson faced. We will also read an article written by Jackie Robinson's daughter about her father's career, and we will be comparing the challenges in Teammates to the challenges in the poem "Mother to Son."

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 6, and will take a test on Friday.  

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks.  We will continue to find the subjects and predicates in our sentences, and to make sure all of our sentences are complete sentences.

Science- Students will continue to work on their Energy Pyramids, and their open-note assessment on Lesson 5.2 had been pushed back to Wednesday.  
Essential Questions: How do plants produce food?  and How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

Math-  Students will begin Chapter 5, "Adding and Subtracting Decimals."  We will begin with rounding decimals and then move on to adding decimals by re-grouping.

Important Days:

Tuesday - Final Magazine Drive Turn-in Day 

Friday - Movie Night

Have a great weekend!

A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will wrap up Chapter 4 and take a the unit test on Thursday.  
Essential Questions:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will be reading the book Teammates, about Jackie Robinson's baseball career.  We will be relating his problems and how he dealt with them to our essential questions for this unit.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 4, and will take a test on Friday.  

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks.  We will also be finding the subjects and predicates in our sentences.

Science- Students will read and take notes on Lesson 5.2 on ecosystems.  They will take their Lesson 5.2 open-note assessment on Friday.  
Essential Questions: How do plants produce food?  and How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

Math-  Students will finish Chapter 1 and take the unit test on Wednesday.
Essential Questions:  

Important Days:

Monday -  Bear Down!
Tuesday - Magazine Drive Turn-in Day #1
Thursday - Magazine Drive Turn-in Day#2

Have a great weekend!

Community Day

Come eat a hot dog and Dippin Dots while you get your face painted, and take your picture in the photo booth.  There is something for everyone this Saturday for Community Day.  There will be a Touch a Truck area where you can explore a fire truck, police truck, sheriff's car, and ambulance.  There will also be a bouncy house for younger children and an inflatable obstacle course for the older ones.  For the active person there will be a 5K run/walk in the morning, and a 3 on 3 student basketball tournament in the Prairieview gym in the afternoon.  I hope to see you all there!

Event Schedule

8:30am  Registration for the 5K run/walk  

9:15am  Warm up for 5K by MFC Sports Performance

9:30am  5K run/walk

10:00am  Community Day Begins

11:30am  Matt Wilhelm Pro Bikes Show (40 minute show)

1:00pm  Celebrity Dance Salsa/Rumba Dance Lessons

1:30pm  3 on 3 Basketball Tournament Finals 

2:00pm  Community Day Ends

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish Chapter 4 in our Social Studies text.  We will read and take notes on Lesson 3.  We will focus on sequencing events, and making a concept map to retell the "story" of the chapter.
Essential Questions:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will be starting our Challenge Unit.  To kick off the unit we will be doing a close read of Langston Hughes' s poem, "Mother and Son."  We will discuss the different challenges the speaker faced and the advice she is trying to pass on to her son.   

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 3, and will take a test on Friday.  

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks.  We will be writing about challenges we face daily, weekly, and long-term.  Students will also be finding prepositional phrases in their writing, and making sure they are using a variety of sentences. 

Science- Students will finish reading and taking notes on Lesson 5.1 on plants, and will begin to read Lesson 5.2 on ecosystems.  
Essential Questions: How do plants produce food?  and How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

Math-  Students will take a quiz on Lessons 1.1-1.4 on Tuesday.  They will also be comparing and sorting decimals (Lessons 1.5-1.8).

Important Days:

Saturday - Community Day
Tuesday - Magazine Drive Kick-off Assembly

Have a great weekend!

MAPS Testing

Next week we will have our first round of MAPS testing.  We will take our Math test on Tuesday, and our Reading test on Wednesday.  Please help your student by making sure he or she gets a good night's sleep, and eats breakfast in the morning.  Students are also encouraged to bring in healthy snacks.

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will begin Chapter 4 in our Social Studies text.  We will be reading Lessons 1 and 2, and taking notes as a class.  The essential questions that we will be focusing on in this unit are:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue to practice finding key details and summarizing (finding the gist.)  We will also be reviewing figurative language, building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers. 

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 2, and will take a test on Friday.  

Language Arts- We are working on their writing stamina in their Writer's Notebooks.  We will be looking at prepositional phrases, and making sure we write in complete sentences. 

Science- Students will continue to discuss what scientists look like.  They will then begin Chapter 5 on Energy and Ecosystems.  

Math-  Students will begin Unit 1 on Place Value.  They will be comparing whole numbers and decimals.

Important Days:

Sunday- Bears play!
Friday- Spelling Test
Saturday (13th)- Community Day

Have a great weekend!