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A Look at next Week:

 ELA

Reading/Language Arts- We have started Unit 2, "Nature's Fury," and have been discussing natural disasters.  This week students will continue to practice their paraphrasing skills.  Students will practice drawing inferences from maps, and adding their own thoughts to their research.  We will also be looking at cause/effect, and adding sequencing to our writing.

Word Work- Students will continue to work on Word Work List 5: a/an, dec, derma, photo, port, and struct.  They will also continue to work with vocabulary words that go along with a hurricane article we will be reading (tropical cyclone, condenses, cumulonimbus, unstable, mound, and inland).

Science-  We will begin Unit 2, Chapter 1, "Why did the food coloring separate into different dyes?"  As a food scientist, students will be looking at how the different properties of individual substances affect the overall properties of the mixture they create.  The unit question for Lesson 1.1 is:  "What happens when two substances are mixed together?"  Our vocabulary words are mixture, observe, property, and substance.

Social Studies- We began Chapter 7, Lesson 3, "The French and Indian War."  Students will be reading the lesson and taking Cornell notes.

Math-  Students will be finishing Unit 2, Module 3.  We will be preparing for our Unit 2 test, which will hopefully be on Tuesday 2/5.

Important Days
Thursday- Early Dismissal

Have a great week!

A Peek at Next Week

ELA Unit 2 "Nature's Fury" Gallery Walk

A Look at next Week:

 ELA

Reading- We have started Unit 2, "Nature's Fury."  We have been discussing natural disasters.  This week students will continue to practice their paraphrasing skills.  Students will practice reading and drawing inferences from maps.
Language Arts- We will begin researching and revising our informational writing on natural disasters.  Students will learn how to incorporate maps and graphs into their writing.

Word Work- Students will begin to work on Word Work List 5: a/an, dec, derma, photo, port, and struct.  They will also be working with vocabulary words that go along with a hurricane article we will be reading (tropical cyclone, condenses, cumulonimbus, unstable, mound, and inland).

Science-  We will begin Unit 2 "Modeling Matter."  Students will take their pre-assessment and will begin to plan an investigation as a food scientist.  They will be looking at the properties of different mixtures.

Social Studies- We began Chapter 7, "The Fight for a Continent."  This past week we read Lesson 1, "The Spanish Move North."  Next week we will read Lesson 2, "French Explore the Mississippi," and we will continue to take Cornell notes after we read the lesson.

Math-  Students will be taking a fraction checkpoint on Tuesday (students may use their notes.) Then we will begin Unit 2, Module 3, where we will start to see how fractions can be used as ratios.

Important Days
Monday- No School, Martin Luther King Day
Wednesday- Trade Fair
Friday- PTO Trivia Night

Have a great weekend!

Happy Holidays!

                                              Bowling

Math Breakout

ELA

Reading- We wrapped up Unit 1, "Overcoming Challenges."  Students finished their narratives and book projects.  When we return from break we will begin Unit 2, "Nature's Fury."  Students will take their Unit 2 pre-test, and be introduced to the unit by going on a gallery walk.

Language Arts- We will begin to discuss and look at informational or expository writing.  

Science-  Students have planned an investigation using the scientific method, that they will implement when we return from break using their Simulation tool.  

Social Studies- We will review Chapter 6 "Life in the English Colonies," and will discuss the Trade Fair.

Math-  We will apply our knowledge for finding equivalent fractions when solving real world problems.

Have a fantastic break and holiday!

A Peek at Next Week

                                       Literature Circles

A Look at this Week:

 ELA

Reading- We will finish discussing, "A Boy Called Slow."  Students will take a selection quiz over the story on Tuesday, and write a reading response (RACE) on Thursday.  Students will then discuss the response in a Fishbowl.  We will also be working on literature circle discussions.

Language Arts- We will make sure our narratives have the elements of a short story, or follow a story-arc.  We will also be learning about how to punctuate titles, and how to identify and use interjections in our writing.

Word Work- Students will begin to work on Word Work List 4: aud, cardio, de, duct, hydro, and quad.

Science-  We will begin Chapter 3 and will be investigating, "Why do we see different stars at different times of the year?"

Social Studies- We will be reading and discussing lesson 5.4, "The 13 English Colonies."

Math-  Students will be discussing how to interpret a remainder in a division problem.  They will take a Unit 1 assessment on Friday.

Have a great weekend!