Happy Leap Day!

This week we have a regular full week. The concert for their music class has been moved to April. I will give you more details on this as I receive them. Here are our plans for the week.

Spelling: We are looking at words that have multiple syllables and end in the ‘ent’ pattern. Our words are interdependent, decadent, convenient, fluorescent, correspondent and our content words are treaty, tyranny, massacre, continental, consequences. As always all of the spelling words are going home today and they are uploaded onto spellingcity.com for practice.

Math: We are finishing unit 7 which is our first unit looking at expressions and order of operations. Our test will be on Wednesday and then we will be doing some math inquiry before starting Unit 8 next week.

Science: We are continuing heredity and will be looking at decoding DNA to create animals. The students will then have to come up with an environment that the animal would be well adapted to live in.

Writing: Students are writing a personal narrative right now that has them writing from the perspective of their 100-year-old selves. They are really enjoying the writing topic and they have even been researching colleges they wish to attend, to include in their stories. We are also looking at figurative language like metaphors.

Reading: We are finishing our reading group books this week and each student will be moving into an informational science related text. We will keep going on that and we will be looking at the Latin and Greek roots in words. Knowing these roots will help students figure out the meaning to words they have never seen before.

Have a great week!