Week of 3/20-3/24

What are we LEARNING ABOUT this week?

 

Spelling words for the Week Focus: Suffixes and Science Academic Vocabulary

grateful, kindness, comfortable, wilderness, uncontrollable, axis, moon, orbit, gravity, rotation.

 

Reading: We will continue reading poems and discuss mood, rhyme, rhythm and structure.  Students will answer questions that relate to poem and must provide evidence to support their answer.  Also make sure you cite which STANZA/VERSE your evidence came from.  Back yourself UP!

 

Math: We are focusing on fractions the 2 weeks.  Students previously learned about fractions but there is always room for reteaching.  At this point students are coming up with their own examples (after teacher modeling).  Students are expected to upload a picture of their example into their google slides titles: All About Fractions

Comparing Fractions Video

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fraction-arithmetic/arith-review-comparing-fractions/v/comparing-fractions-2

Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators Videos

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fraction-arithmetic/arith-review-add-sub-fractions/v/adding-small-fractions-with-unlike-denominators

 

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fraction-arithmetic/arith-review-add-sub-fractions/v/subtracting-small-fractions-with-unlike-denominators

 

Science: Students will be exploring information on the Solar System and answering the question: What causes night and day?

https://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/solar-system/day-on-earth.htm