A Look at Next Week:
Social Studies- We will continue to read Lesson 9.1 "Declaring Independence." After we discuss this lesson we will continue to take cause and effect notes, and then we will be doing a close read of the actual Declaration of Independence.
ELA
Reading- Students will begin our new unit titled "Hardships in History." Our first activity will be to do a close read of the song "Yankee Doodle," and see how its meaning changed over time.
Essential Questions: How does the time period of the hardship impact future decisions and events?
How are hardships in history similar and different?
Word Work- Spelling: Students will be studying Lesson 31, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary- Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.
Reading- Students will begin our new unit titled "Hardships in History." Our first activity will be to do a close read of the song "Yankee Doodle," and see how its meaning changed over time.
Essential Questions: How does the time period of the hardship impact future decisions and events?
How are hardships in history similar and different?
Word Work- Spelling: Students will be studying Lesson 31, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary- Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.
Language Arts- We will begin our unit on verbs. We will be going over action verbs, direct objects, and helping verbs.
Science- We have started Ch. 14 "Properties of Matter." We will continue to read and discuss Lesson 14.1 "What is the Structure of Matter?" We have discussed mass, volume, and atoms this past week. Next week we will be looking at the periodic table, atomic numbers, and the three phases of matter. We will take an open-note quiz on Friday.
Math- We reviewed Greatest Common Factors (GCF), Least Common Multiples (LCM), simplifying fractions, and comparing fractions. We also went over rounding fractions to zero, half, or one, and we used number lines to help us. We then reviewed adding and subtracting like fractions, and just began adding unlike fractions. Next week will also subtract unlike fractions, and show our work through models. We will take a quiz over adding and subtracting decimals on Wednesday.
Have a wonderful weekend!
