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!
