I hope you all enjoyed your mid-winter break! We are going to be preparing for M-Step the next few weeks before spring break. Please have your child log in to Khan Academy as often as possible to practice at home.
This week starts March is Reading Month! Calendars will be going home and I will post it on the blog on Thursday.
ELA
- Spelling words this week are: ambiguous, authority, volume, area, aerospace, massacre, fort, aerobics, proclamation, ambiance, length, allies, width, repeal, ambition, boycott, perimeter, intolerable, aerosol, import
- We finished Wonder before break and we are working on activities like character snapshots, what it means to be ordinary, struggles characters had throughout the book, and finally we will compare and contrast the book to the movie.
- We will also be working on prefix and suffixes.
- We are writing a research paper on a person from the American Revolution. Students will be presenting on their person late next week.
Math
- We are working on scientific notation, standard notation, and exponential notation.
- We will continue to work on parentheses and order of operations this week.
Science
- We are going to be reviewing the water cycle and how to make it rain.
- We will be reviewing for a summative assessment.
- The summative assessment will be early next week.
Social Studies
- We talked about the southern colonies and how they were formed to build the 13 colonies before the American Revolution.
- Later this week we will be discussing the middle and New England colonies and how they were formed.
