Week 3 Update
Hello!
I hope you had a lovely weekend. I'm looking forward to some cooler weather this week!
Tuesday is Literary Character Day! If I previously approved your child's green permission slip, they may dress up as their favorite literary character for the day. If not, they will be expected to wear their uniforms, as usual. We will have a regular day of school in the morning, and in the afternoon, we will have some Literary Day activities. Because of our unusual afternoon, we will not have regular literature time so we can have science class in the morning. In the afternoon, we will do some reader's theater and also have time to read individually.
Here's an overview of our academics for the week:
I hope you had a lovely weekend. I'm looking forward to some cooler weather this week!
Tuesday is Literary Character Day! If I previously approved your child's green permission slip, they may dress up as their favorite literary character for the day. If not, they will be expected to wear their uniforms, as usual. We will have a regular day of school in the morning, and in the afternoon, we will have some Literary Day activities. Because of our unusual afternoon, we will not have regular literature time so we can have science class in the morning. In the afternoon, we will do some reader's theater and also have time to read individually.
Here's an overview of our academics for the week:
The students will finish
up their opinion paragraph with the typewritten final draft. We will learn how
to classify and diagram prepositional phrases. We will also summarize a chapter
of Prince Caspian in class. For our end of the book activity for
Prince Caspian, the students will make 6 Character Trading Cards.
They will be given a
sheet with instructions for what each card should have on it.
We will finish Prince
Caspian on Friday. Our next book will be Robin Hood. I have placed a picture of
the cover of the book in the margin. Please make sure your child has
the book with this cover by Tuesday, November 7th.
We will begin our week in math with a unit test on Monday.
After that, we dig deeper into the operations of fractions, reviewing how to
add and subtract fractions with different denominators and learning how to add
mixed numbers.
In History we will
continue our study of the Middle Ages and focus on life in a castle, and the
role of knights in the a feudal society. Students will virtually tour a
medieval castle and learn the important components of their structure. We will
then turn our attention to the steps it took to become a knight and why knights
were instrumental components of the Middle Ages.
The
final geology test is on 10/30. The next unit is Meteorology. We
will discuss Aristotle and his thoughts on meteorology. The students will learn
about the water cycle, the distribution of water on the Earth, and clouds.