A Peek at This Week

Social Studies

 A Peek at this Week:

ELA:  

Writing:  We will be performing our podcasts live in class this week.  Students wrote an opinion essay last week and will be answering the question: Would you rather be a parrot or an octopus?

Reading Skills: We will continue to read our informational text, "Let's Dance Around the World."  We will be looking at text structure, and graphics.  

Essential Question:  How far can your talents take you?

Word Work: Vocab- rhythmic, distinctive, highlight, horizontal

Math: We are going to finish Unit 4.  We will be going over measurement and time.  Students will be converting meters to kilometers, milliliters to liters, grams, to kilograms, and will be covering elapsed time. 

Science: We started our Unit, "Using Energy."  Students are learning about different types of energy, and energy transfer.

Social Studies:  We will begin our study of the West.

Important Days this Week:

Wednesday- Early Dismissal

Thursday- Panther Progress 4-7pm

A Peek at this Week

 

Building our Roller Coasters

A Peek at this Week:

ELA:  

Writing:  We will be taking our IAR tests this week.

Reading Skills: We will continue to discuss our latest story, "The Beatles are Fab."

Essential Question:  How far can your talents take you?

Word Work: Vocab- inspiration, expressive, creativity, sculptures, dignified, polished, hilarious, flattered, stunned, regretted, observant, trampled

Math: Students will practice for their IAR testing and will finish their geometric classroom designs. 

Science: We will begin building our model airplanes; one that is the fastest, one that goes the farthest, and one that has the softest landing.

Social Studies:  We will continue to learn about cacti and the Southwest.

Important Days this Week:

Tuesday- 8:30-10:00 ELA IAR Testing

Wednesday- 8:30-10:00 ELA IAR Testing

Thursday- 8:30-10:00 ELA IAR Testing

A Peek at this Week

STEM: Building a Soccer Ball

A Peek at this Week:

ELA:  

Writing:  We will continue to build our writing stamina in our Writing notebooks.  We have also typed our rough draft of our narratives.  This week we will work on revising our writing.

Reading Skills: Students will review different forms of text structure.  We will begin our second module, "Come to Your Senses."

Essential Question:  How do people and animals use their senses to navigate the world?

Word Work: Students will be working with our new vocabulary words, by defining the word, drawing a picture of the word, finding synonyms and antonyms, and writing them in sentences.

Essential Vocab: Perception, Distinguish, Aroma, Textile

Math: Students will continue to build multiplication arrays using base ten blocks.  Students will be using the arrays to show both multiplication and division.  

Science: We will begin our first unit on understanding force and energy.

Social Studies:  We will be reading about the economy of the Midwest.

Important Days this Week:

Monday-No School- Indigenous People's Day

Tuesday- No School due to Parent/Teacher Conferences

Thursday- Parent/Teacher Conferences

Lakeview Homecoming Parade

 Homecoming Parade

A Peek at this Week:

ELA:  

Writing:  We will continue to build our writing stamina in our Writing notebooks.  We have also started our Narrative writing unit.  We have written the beginnings of our stories, and now we will write the middle and end.

Reading Skills: Students will review different forms of figurative language.  Then later in the week they will practice writing written response to their reading using text evidence to support their answers. (R.A.C.E.S. Response)

Essential Question:  How do your experiences help shape your identity?

Word Work: Students will be working with our new vocabulary words, by defining the word, drawing a picture of the word, finding synonyms and antonyms, and writing them in sentences.

Essential Vocab: heritage, ancient, resolutions, doubts, relying, clumsy, and awkward

Math: Students will finish reviewing Unit 1 and take their Unit 1 post-assessment on Friday.

Science: We will begin our first unit on understanding force and energy.  We have also started our October STEM challenge, which will be building a soccer ball.

Social Studies:  Students will be working on their research of Latino countries for Hispanic Heritage month.  We will also continue reading about the Midwest.