A Peek at this Week

 Look at this Week:

ELA:  

Writer's Workshop:  We will continue to discuss expository writing, and read expository essays or articles about different inventors.  We will also continue to work on our writing stamina.

Reading Skills: We will continue to work on summarizing texts, and fining the key details using text features.

Word Work: Students will continue to work with words that have short vowel sounds, some example words are: breath, weather, feather, or crush, numb, and bundle.

Essential Vocab: locomotives, chugged, gadgets, phonograph, incandescent, sputtered, flop, cylinder, patents.

Math: Students will continue to work on finding the volume of rectangular prisms, and solving word problems.

Science:  Students will continue to investigate and model how animals use food matter to grow. (They will be working on an online simulator.)

Social Studies:  Students will continue to read Chapter 4 in our textbooks, "Spain builds an Empire." We will be discussing the Columbian Exchange, and viewing Christopher Columbus's exhibitions to the Americas through the lens of the 5 themes of geography.

Important Days:

Tuesday- 6:00-7:15pm Teaching and Learning Night

Wednesday- Early Dismissal

Have a wonderful week!

A Peek at Next Week

Five Themes of Geography

  Look at Next Week:

ELA:  

Writer's Workshop:  We will introduce expository writing, and read expository essays or articles about different inventors.  We will also continue to work on our writing stamina.

Reading Skills: We will continue to practice finding the main or central idea of a text, and we will work on summarizing texts.

Word Work: Students will continue to work with words that have short vowel sounds, some example words are: breath, weather, feather, or crush, numb, and bundle.

Essential Vocab: locomotives, chugged, gadgets, phonograph, incandescent, sputtered, flop, cylinder, patents.

Math: Students will continue to review different multiplication strategies and will be calculating the volume of rectangular prisms.

Science:  Students will continue to investigate and model how animals use food matter to grow. (They will be working on an online simulator.)

Social Studies:  Students will continue to discuss the 5 themes of geography:  movement, human environment/interactions, region, location, and place.  

Important Days:

Friday- Movie Night

Have a wonderful weekend!

A Peek at Next Week

Food Chain Activity

Sharing our Stories

A Look at This Week:

ELA:  

Reading Skill: We will begin our unit "Inventors at Work."  We will review finding the main or central idea of a text.  

Spelling Pattern: Students will learn the spelling pattern for short vowel sounds, some example words are: breath, weather, feather, or crush, numb, bundle.

High Frequency Words: famous, chief, students, and yourself

Essential Vocab: locomotives, chugged, gadgets, phonograph, incandescent, sputtered, flop, cylinder, patents.

Math: Students will define and find prime and composite numbers; factors and multiples; and play our multiple game.  We will also learn two new multiplication strategies:  the over strategy and partial product.

Science:  Students will be investigating and modeling how animals use food matter to grow. (They will be working on an online simulator.)

Social Studies:  Students will learn about the 5 themes of geography:  movement, human environment/interactions, region, location, and place.  We will define these themes and look at different examples.

Important Days:

Monday- No School- Labor Day

Tuesday- Picture Day!

Have a wonderful weekend!