Updates and Announcements
I look forward to teaching
parents about our Singapore and Spalding curricula this Wednesday for Math
and Phonics night. Parents will get the opportunity to work through word
problems and mark words-just to name a few things. I hope to see many 5A
parents there!
Our week in learning
This week in writing we will begin our first formal piece of
writing, a descriptive paragraph. Students will choose a topic and will
then go through the writing process to revise and edit for a final copy.
In literature we will continue to study characterization by finding
textual evidence to support our inferences about the characters. Students
should be working to memorize their poems, and recitations will begin on
Wednesday!
We are
continuing the chemistry unit this week. We will be reading The Mystery of the
Periodic Table and taking notes throughout. We will learn about the pitfalls
and successes of the early chemists.
Students should continue be working on their project at home!
This week in
history, we will continue learning about the Maya culture. Students will get to
participate in a friendly game of pok-ta-pok and engage in a socratic
discussion involving the disappearance of the Maya. Students will continue
journaling from the perspective of a Maya person at the end of each lesson.
All of our students did a wonderful job working through various
types of word problems last week! This week we will begin reviewing and
practicing long division and multiplication and will review bar models that use
these operations.
Study Skill of the Week:
