A Peek at this Week

Math: Building Volume Villages

Look at this Week:

ELA:  

Writer's Workshop:  We will continue researching an inventor that we will eventually be writing about in an expository essay.  

Reading Skills: We will continue to look at different text structures for non-fiction texts.  We will finish up our discussions about "Wheelchair Sports" and begin reading "Captain Arsenio: (Mis)Adventures in Flight."

Word Work: Students will be working with words with either a long a or long e vowel sound such as: praise, stray, release, exceed, or thief.  (Lists are in the back of students' reading notebooks).

Essential Vocab: maneuver, elite, traditional, observe, and specialized (back of students' reading notebook)

Math: Students will finish creating their spooky volume village, and will begin Unit 2 on Fractions.

Science:  Students will continue investigating where all the energy in an ecosystem originates.

Social Studies:  Students will be sharing their Chapter 4 choice-board activities.

Important Days:

Monday- Parent Teacher Conferences

Tuesday- Parent Teacher Conferences

Have a wonderful week!

A Peek at Next Week

 Look at next Week:

ELA:  

Writer's Workshop:  We will begin to research an inventor that we will eventually be writing an expository essay about.  We will be in the pre-writing stages next week, where we will be gathering information.

Reading Skills: We will continue to look at different text structures for non-fiction texts.  We will read "Wheelchair Sports" and pull out the central idea, and discuss how the text is organized. 

Word Work: Students will be working with words with either a long a or long e vowel sound such as: praise, stray, release, exceed, or thief.  (Lists are in the back of student's reading notebooks).

Essential Vocab: maneuver, elite, traditional, observe, and specialized (back of student's reading notebook)

Math: Students will take their Unit 1 test on Tuesday.  They will also continue to create their spooky volume village.

Science:  Students will be investigating where all the energy in an ecosystem originates.

Social Studies:  Students will be working on their Chapter 4 choice board activity.  Some students will be building dioramas, creating dramatic scenes, writing postcards from New Spain to old Spain, creating a slideshow to explain the Columbian Exchange, or creating a fact file on one of our explorers.

Important Days:

Friday- 6:00-8:00pm Trunk or Treat

Have a wonderful weekend!