- Math
- We are working on Chapter 2: Divide Whole Numbers.
- We will be completing lessons 2.5-2.9 this week.
- There will be one page of math homework assigned nightly.
- 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: Ellis Island, Mexican Immigration, Immigrant Kids.
- 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 documentary, American Stories adapted from the PBS series In the Mix .
- Comprehension skills for this week are: distinguish fact from opinion, compare literary language, explain relationships between events, analyze facts and interpretations.
- The test over these skills will be on Tuesday, August 30th .
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 project will be to write a personal narrative. This is the prompt: Tell about a time when you had to adjust to a new place or situation. Add your story to a class book about dealing with changes.
- 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 31st.
Spelling- This week we will be working on spelling words with digraphs ch, and tch and using commonly misspelled words correctly.
- The words are: beseech, charter, enrich, glitch, hunches, merchant, orchard, reproach, squelch, stitching, top-notch, torches, trenches, wrenched, wretched, medal, meddle, manner, manor.
- The spelling test will be on Tuesday, August 30th.
Grammar- Students will be working on using compound subjects and compound 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 31st .
- 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.
- Students will be completing a research report about skeletons. Assignment requirements can be found on the top right column of this page. This report will be due on Tuesday, August 30th.
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