Crazy Hair Day

Crazy Hair Day/1980's Day 

ELA Stations 

A Look at This Week:

Social Studies- Students will take their Chapter 4 Test on Wednesday.
Essential Questions:  
How can one country impact another?
What can we learn from the Columbian Exchange that has impacted other countries today?

Science- We will finish our food pyramids, and the nitrogen cycle.  Then students will create a song either about photosynthesis or the energy pyramid.
Essential Questions: 
How do plants produce food?
How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

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Reading- We will be discussing theme and working on summarizing texts.  Students will also receive their new vocabulary words and will begin reading A Boy Called Slow.

Essential Questions:

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

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

How can challenges affect yourself and the world around you?

Word Work-  We will be working with our second list of root-words, prefixes, or suffixes which include:  alter, bi, logy/ology, anti, geo, and script/scrib. Our vocabulary words from A Boy Called Slow include: determination, custom, extended, reputation, triumph, inherited, travois, and coup stick.

Language Arts- Students will take a quiz on commas on Friday.  Students will also continue comparative writing, and writing summaries.

Math-  We will wrap-up our module on multiplication strategies and move on to division.  We will review division with area models and division with remainders.

Important Days:
Saturday- District Dash/Team66 Community Days

Tuesday- Final Magazine Drive Turn-in Day

Thursday- Author Night with Kate Klise
Friday- Fall Movie Night

Have a great weekend!