Researching Natural Disasters
A Look at this Week:
This week we will begin PARCC testing. Please remember to send your student to school with a charged Chromebook and earbuds!
Social Studies- Students will be reviewing Chapter 5. They will participate in a Trade Fair on Friday. Students should bring homemade items to trade at their "booth." Students will be learning about supply and demand, and how colonists bartered for goods.
Social Studies- Students will be reviewing Chapter 5. They will participate in a Trade Fair on Friday. Students should bring homemade items to trade at their "booth." Students will be learning about supply and demand, and how colonists bartered for goods.
ELA
Reading- Students will be reading about their specific storms. They will be paraphrasing their research in their Writing notebooks.
Language Arts- Students will be writing three articles, each in a different text structure, based on their research. The different text structures they may choose from are: compare and contrast, cause and effect, sequencing events, problem and solution, or description.
Students will be working on their final project for Unit 2. Students will be researching a natural disaster (for example Hurricane Katrina), and will create a digital magazine about this storm. Their magazine will have three articles, one picture with a caption, and a map with a caption, along with a list of sources.
Language Arts- Students will be writing three articles, each in a different text structure, based on their research. The different text structures they may choose from are: compare and contrast, cause and effect, sequencing events, problem and solution, or description.
Word Work- Students will be working on using scientific vocabulary in their articles.
Have a great week!
Math- Students will be studying Unit 4, Module 2, on different multiplication and division strategies.
Important Dates
Important Dates
Monday- PARCC- Math 1
Tuesday- PARCC- Math 2
Wednesday- PARCC- Math 3
Thursday- PARCC- Math 4
Friday- PARCC- ELA 1
Tuesday- PARCC- Math 2
Wednesday- PARCC- Math 3
Thursday- PARCC- Math 4
Friday- PARCC- ELA 1
