Math: We will be finishing Chapter 11 this week, covering geometry and volume. We will complete lessons 11.12-Chapter Review this week. On Wednesday, students will take the test on chapter 11. On Thursday, we will begin working on the objective create and solve two-step equations that can be solved using inverse operations with whole numbers. This objective is not covered in our Go Math program. There will be one page of homework assigned nightly in addition to any work not completed during class. Remember there are many resources available on the Think Central Website. Click here to go the the website. For username and password questions, contact Mrs. Brannock at [email protected].
Reading: We are working on main idea and supporting details. We have begun a final project to pull the concept together and offer students an opportunity to demonstrate creatively what they learned in the lessons. This project is due on Friday, March 7.
Reading groups: Reading groups have been revised. We will be working on a variety of reading and literacy skills. Students will be expected to complete assignments related to the books we are reading, as well as to take Accelerated Reader quizzes on the books we read. We are currently reading the following books: Misery Guts, Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case, The Case of the Million-Dollar Mystery, and The White Wolf.
Reading homework: There will be one page of reading homework assigned nightly. This week we will be focusing on Cause-and-Effect Maps and Relationships.
Reading Skill Practice: We will be working a variety of reading skills. Students will read a short passage and then answer questions about the passage. We will be taking periodic comprehension tests on the reading passages. I will also be testing students on reading fluency. This week we will be focusing on quoting accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
On Thursday, we will begin a readers' theater unit to help practice reading fluency in addition to comprehension. We will be working on a readers' theater play that students will perform. Students will be assessed on reading fluency and comprehension.
Spelling: We will be working to spell grade-appropriate words correctly. Students will receive one practice page each day. This page will be due that day. If students do not complete the work during class, they must finish it for homework and turn it in the next day. Students will take a test on Friday over the week's spelling words. This week we will be working on words with the long o sound and words in the present and pasts tenses. The spelling words are: obey, ocean, poem, echo, hello, wrote, goal, approach, owner, tomorrow, program, broken, potato, throat, oldest, followed, spoken, awoke.
Social Studies: We are working on a unit on the American Revolution. This week we will be learning about colonial expressions that originated during those times.
Science: We are working on a unit on the human body. This week we will be investigating how the heart beats and listening to our heart beats.
Writing and Grammar: Each day students will complete a writing warm-up which will cover many writing and grammar skills. This week, our focus will be on producing clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Students will also write a quickwrite each day on a given prompt. Students should be writing at least a paragraph each day. We will take Quiz 10 on Monday and students will be revising and editing one of their quickwrites to be graded. I will also collect warm-ups 82-90 at this time.