Reading: This week in reading, we will be working on the mini research project. This week they will be doing the research. On Monday, the students will learn how to analyze an article and find the important information for their research. The following are the questions they will be required to answer: 1. What did the person develop/invent, and how was it used? 2. What impact did this innovation have on society? 3. What was the legacy of this innovation? Then during their presentation, they will need the following information: 1. They will need an opening argument. 2. They will need to prove/defend their person as the most innovative/influential. This will be done through both an oral/visual presentation. 3. They will need a closing argument. The focus skills being worked on this week are ask and respond to open ended questions, making connections to real world situations or related topics before and during reading, making inferences and drawing conclusions. The students will also work on these skills with their independent reading book.
Book Report: Their first book report will be due on Friday, September 30. The students need to read any award winning book. Their assignment is to write an A to Z book report.
Book Report: Their first book report will be due on Friday, September 30. The students need to read any award winning book. Their assignment is to write an A to Z book report.
Math: In math we are on unit 1. The first lessons of this unit focused on number models and arrays. We focused on finding all the factors of a number and the divisibility rules for 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10. This past week we learned about prime and composite numbers and square numbers. A prime number has exactly two factors and a composite number has more than two. The students also learned how to find the square root of a number. Next week, we will work on prime factorization of a number. Then on Tuesday, we will go over the study guide, and their test will be on Wednesday. The first lesson for unit 2 looks at developing strategies for estimating.
Writing: This week in writing, we will be doing a variety of activities. During writer's workshop, the students will continue working on their own Fortunately book. We will also be working on a mini research project during writing. The students will have to prove that their person was the most influential/innovative person.
Science: We have been working on our weather unit. The students watched videos on storms, weather instruments, and hurricanes at the beginning of the unit. Then they learned about the layers of the atmosphere. The layers are troposphere, stratosphere, ozone layer, mesosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. The students have learned about three of the weather instruments. The wind vane tells the direction in which the wind is blowing, and the anemometer tells the speed of the wind. The barometer measures the atmospheric pressure. This upcoming week the students will learn about the three states of matter. They are gases, solids, and liquids. Through experiments, we will also look at some of the properties of air. The students will learn that air takes up space and is lighter than water. They will also see what happens when air molecules are heated and cooled. Another experiment will show that hot air rises. At the end of the week they will learn about humidity and relative humidity.
We will do a discussion about 911.
Social Studies: We will start social studies after we finish our science unit.
Spelling Unit 2:
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Important Dates:
Spelling Test Wednesday, September 14
5P Math Test Wednesday, September 14
Curriculum night Thursday, September 15
Book Report due on Friday, September 30
