Updates and announcements
I hope everyone had a wonderful
quasi-R&R weekend!
Our field trip to the
Renaissance Fair is next Tuesday, March 5th. Just a reminder that
students need to bring a backpack to hold their lunch and any appropriate extraneous
items, such as a camera (NOT phone or ipad), sunscreen, or an umbrella. Students
MUST pack a lunch to eat and should not buy a lunch at the festival.
Our week in learning
This week, students will learn about the idiom “A
watched pot never boils”.
Students will learn review roots 51-75 for their
test next Wednesday 3/6. The study guides went home last week and will be due
Wednesday, 2/27.
In Literature, we will continue reading “The Secret
Garden”. We will continue reading through chapter 24. Students will have a
journal entry about every two days. If you have not already done so, please
send in a physical copy of “The Secret Garden”.
In Writing and Grammar, students will have a small
Writing Workshop day on Monday. Students will use their article outlines from
last week on exercise to write either a persuasive or expository essay.
Students will review the rubrics with their two essays on Tuesday. Students
will do the majority of work in class and the homework will be to finish the
classwork assignments. On Friday, students will get to practice writing a whole
5 paragraph essay in one sitting with all of the steps. This will be a Writing
Workshop where every student will conference with a teacher between steps.
This
week in science, students will learn about the life of scientist and inventor
George Washington Carver. They will also learn about primary and secondary
sources and begin writing an informative or persuasive paragraph about Carver’s
legacy. Students will have ample time to complete their work in class, but will
be asked to finish outlining their paragraph as homework on Friday if they do
not finish in the class time allotted.
This week in History, students
will begin studying the Civil War, including the causes that led up to war. We
will begin this large unit with conversations of the state of slavery in the
U.S. before the Civil War, growing abolitionist sentiment, and the Missouri
Compromise. We will also discuss other differences between the North and South,
such as their economic situations. Since this unit will take us well into the 4th
quarter, we will have a large quiz at the end of the third quarter discussing
the causes of the Civil War.
In
math, we will start a short, fun unit on Percentage. Students will read and
interpret percentage of a whole, express a fraction with a denominator of 10 or
100 as a percentage, express a decimal as a percentage and vise versa, express
a percentage as a fraction and vice versa, and solve word problems with
percentage. ALL workbook homework assignments will be half of every type of
problem. There will be no math groups. Math groups will be sparse this quarter
due to AZMerit preparations.
