April 11-15

Language Arts

Our focus standard this week will be determining meaning of words and phrases including figurative language.  We will review various literary devices and use technology to take notes and demonstrate their knowledge by creating personal examples as well as finding examples in independent reading books.  Moby stories and active reading will be due Friday, and fluency will be due Monday.

Writing

Students will be completing final drafts of color poems this week.  Prewriting and rough drafts were written last week, and this week students will revise for stronger voice and word choice by adding figurative language, description, and adjectives into their writing. As time allows, we may begin acrostic or haiku poems as well to practice creative writing and figurative language.

Social Studies

Students will continue working on a comic strip called The United States is Born.  They will be given notes in class for each comic to outline the sequence of events and important documents that set up our country’s government.  This week we will cover more about how our government is set up under the Constitution.

Language Arts (Sharman)

We will continue working on how to identify the main idea and details that support it. In addition, we should finish up our biography chapter books by the end of the week. Students should be reading at least 10 pages per day and taking notes on the important details that relate to the topics they’re researching.

Writing (Sharman)

We will read our articles we printed in the library on Friday. Through reading the articles we will learn how to narrow down to the most important details, in addition to citing our sources.

 Advanced Math –

We will be finishing up our lessons on converting mass between customary and metric.  On Thursday we will be taking our test for Chapter 7.  On Friday, we will be starting our lessons on Statistics.

Math 2/3 –

We will be finishing up our chapter 7 part 2 on graphing and making tables.   Students will be taking their test on Tuesday and have their second chance.   On Wednesday, we will be starting our Chapter 8 which will be converting units between customary and metric.  

Science –

Students are continuing their work on the circulatory system by identifying the path that the blood takes through the body.   We will work to identify the parts of the heart.