- Chapter 1 will focus on place value, multiplication, and expressions.
- We will complete Lessons 1.4-1.7 this week.
- There will be one page of math homework assigned nightly.
- On Wednesday, students will take the mid-chapter checkpoint quiz covering lessons 1.1-1.5.
- There are many resources available on ThinkCentral to help students.
- Every Friday, we will be having a multiplication timed test. Students should be practicing their multiplication facts daily.
Small Group Reading
- Students will be placed into leveled small groups based on the results of their reading pretest.
- Students will be reading the following books this week: Isabel's Story: From Guatemala to Georgia; Erik's Story: From Sweden to Minnesota; Journey to America; Flight to Freedom.
- Students will also be completing learning stations during our small group reading time. All of these activities go along with our Unit 1 theme of crossing between cultures. Students will turn in a packet of their work which will also count toward their social studies grades.
Reading
- Unit 1 is entitled Crossing Between Cultures. Students will be working to answer the question: How can where you are change who you are? This unit will focus on social studies concepts as well so some of the assignments during this unit will count toward students' social studies grades.
- Students will be reading the story, My Diary from Here to There by Amada Irma Perez.
- Comprehension skills for this week are: comprehend character development, preview and predict, introduce point of view.
- The test over these skills will be on Tuesday, August 2nd .
Writing
- Unit 1 is entitled Crossing Between Cultures. Students will be working to answer the question: How can where you are change who you are? This unit will focus on social studies concepts as well so some of the assignments during this unit will count toward students' social studies grades.
- This week's writing assignment will be to write a story introduction. This is the prompt: You are a novelist writing a story about a student's first day at a new school. Write an engaging introduction that presents the character and his situation.
- We will work on this assignment during class, however, students may need to work on some of the assignment at home. Students will be graded according to the writing rubric posted on the top right column of this page.
- This assignment is due on Wednesday, August 3rd.
Spelling
- This week we will be working on spelling words with Short a and using commonly misspelled words correctly.
- The words are: absence, ambassador, anticipate, aspect, bashful, behalf, compassion, diplomatic, financial, reality, tactics, tragedy, transported, vastness, accent, ascent, assent.
- The spelling test will be on Wednesday, August 3rd.
Grammar
- Students will be working on using complete sentences and using complete and simple subjects and predicates.
- Students are encouraged to take good grammar notes and to review their notes before each test.
- The grammar test will be on Wednesday, August 3rd.
- We will be reading the book Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez.
Science
- We will begin the year with a unit on the human body.
- In the first section of this unit, students will be learning about the skeleton. The objectives are : The student will identify the parts of the skeleton, learn what the skeletal system does, and discover which bones they use at different times.