A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will wrap up Chapter 4 and take a the unit test on Thursday.  
Essential Questions:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will be reading the book Teammates, about Jackie Robinson's baseball career.  We will be relating his problems and how he dealt with them to our essential questions for this unit.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 4, and will take a test on Friday.  

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks.  We will also be finding the subjects and predicates in our sentences.

Science- Students will read and take notes on Lesson 5.2 on ecosystems.  They will take their Lesson 5.2 open-note assessment on Friday.  
Essential Questions: How do plants produce food?  and How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

Math-  Students will finish Chapter 1 and take the unit test on Wednesday.
Essential Questions:  

Important Days:

Monday -  Bear Down!
Tuesday - Magazine Drive Turn-in Day #1
Thursday - Magazine Drive Turn-in Day#2

Have a great weekend!