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!
