A Look at Next Week:
Spelling- Lesson 5 Review unit with 30 words -0 or -1 will be in Challenge group
Monday- Pretest
Thursday- Spelling Homework Due
Friday - Spelling test (students need to study all 30 words! 20 of them will be on the test.)
Social Studies- We will continue with Chapter 4 "Spain Builds and Empire"
We will continue on Lesson 3 learning about the structure of society in New Spain and how the native people lost their traditional way of life.
Lesson 3- Life in New Spain-Spain gaining wealth from the settlement in North America
Reading- Tall Tales - Tall Tales continues. We read Johnny Appleseed and Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind. We continued to identify hyperbole's, similes and looked for context clues. This week we will finish our Tall Tale unit with the students creating their own Tale. They will need to think of a main character, a problem to solve and use hyperbole's, similes and metaphors in their story.
Reading Projects: The students are to read a REALISTIC FICTION book.
Reading Projects: The students are to read a REALISTIC FICTION book.
They should to have their book approved my me by Wednesday October, 2. They will be making a memory bag to go along with their story and give a small presentation at the end. The final due date for the project is November, 7.
Language Arts- We will continue with our Sentence Unit in English.
We will learn about : Subject in Imperative sentences
Conjunctions
Writing Good Sentences
Run-On Sentences.
Science- We will continue Chapter 5 on How Energy is Passed Through an Ecosystem.
We will learn about some roles animals have in the ecosystem such as producer, consumer, herbivore and carnivore. We will also learn food chains and connect and overlap food webs.
We will learn about some roles animals have in the ecosystem such as producer, consumer, herbivore and carnivore. We will also learn food chains and connect and overlap food webs.
Math- We will have our Chapter One test this Monday. We will then Begin Chapter 2: Multiply Whole Numbers
Prime Factorization
Hands-On Prime Factorization Patterns
Powers and Exponents
Multiplication Patterns
Problem Solving Investigation
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 - SPIRIT DAY BLACKHAWKS COLORS!
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1- FIRST SESSION OF JR. ACHIEVEMENT WITH MR. BLOCKER
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 EVENING - COMMON CORE INFORMATION MEETING
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4- TAFFY APPLE ORDERS DUE
COMING UP
OCTOBER 11- MOVIE NIGHT
OCTOBER 14- NO SCHOOL
