April 25-30

Language Arts (Sharman)

Students will continue working on the skill of summarizing and work with longer passages this week. They did a great job last week summarizing familiar children’s books. This skill will help us when we begin to write our research reports. Students should be reading any final articles or books that may help with writing their reports.

Writing (Sharman)

Students will begin filling out their graphic organizer on Monday which will be a template for writing their five paragraph research reports. We will learn how to narrow down our notes to the most important and interesting details to include in our reports. Students have been working very hard on finding awesome information for their papers.

Language Arts

This week, students will continue to work on identifying the meaning of words and phrases in writing including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.  Students will be searching within their IR books to find and photograph examples of figurative language and literary devices to be used in a Kahoot to quiz their classmates.  In addition, their active reading will focus on vocabulary, context clues, and using the words in sentences accurately.  In class, we will also be reading poetry and picture books to both identify figurative language and discuss the meaning behind the examples.  Normal homework routes will continue.

Writing

Students will be starting the Lucy Caulkins Research Reports unit. The unit focuses on Westward Expansion. We began by gathering key words from our background knowledge, and this week students will start organizing key words and ideas to write a flash draft of what they know.  

Social Studies

We are wrapping up our unit on American Documents this week and starting on our Westward Expansion unit. Students will be introduced to key words and concepts that will be covered throughout the unit.  We will focus on the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark this week.

Advanced Math –

We will be finishing up our unit on statistics through the end of this week into the beginning of next week.  Students will continue to work towards understanding of the central measures of tendency.

Math 2/3 –

Students will begin working on customary measurement of mass and how to convert them.  Students will complete the gallon man to help them understand the customary measurements.

Science –

Students are working toward the understanding of the different parts of the blood and what diseases can happen in the heart and blood.