3/19- Math Acceleration Test- (Those already in Accelerated Math do not need to take the test.)
3/20: No school
3/23- ½ day for students
3/26- 3/30- Spring Break (no school)
4/2-School resumes
The students are going to be working on Functional Reading passages for the next few weeks. Functional reading passages are important in everyday life. We will explain that there are many forms of functional reading, such as signs, newspapers, recipes, menus, advertisements, and more. The students will learn how to spot important vocabulary and facts in the passages. We will teach this unit by modeling for the students, practicing together, and then students will work independently.
Writing
The students will begin a unit on Personal Narratives. We will emerge the students in various samples of this type of writing and form a list of things that are needed in personal narratives. Personal narratives are often one of the first types of writing that you do. Personal narratives allow you to share your life with others and experience the things that happen around you. The job of the writer is to put the reader in the midst of the action letting him or her live through an experience. You write about yourself and experiences that you have encountered, read, or heard about. You can become much more engaged when you write about yourself in personal narratives because you are the expert on the topic of your life. The students’ job will be to make the story interesting - as interesting for the reader as it was for them when it happened. Lots of description, lots of action, and lots of dialogue will help the reader feel what the author felt.
The pattern for this week, list #22, is VCCV words. These are words that have the syllable patterns of vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel words. This week our spelling test will be on Friday, March 23rd.
We are continuing our unit on The Moon. The students will learn many things about the moon. The students will learn about the characteristics of the moon, how craters are created, and will be able to compare and contrast the moon with the Earth and the sun. The students will also gain a better understanding of the terms rotate and revolve, which describe the moon’s movements. The students will then learn the phases of the moon. Check out the links about the moon on our blog! They have great information for the students reinforce what we are learning in the classroom.
The Unit 7 Study Guide is due on Wed., 3/21. The Unit 7 Test is Thursday, 3/22. Unit 7 is a shorter unit and extends the basic multiplication and division skills the students learned in the first half of the year. The skills developed in this unit are important for many other concepts in math, such as estimation and multi-digit multiplication and division. The students will review multiplication and division patterns, extend their basic multiplication facts, and practice making estimations of costs. The students will also practice adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers and make ballpark estimates by rounding numbers to the nearest tens place. The students will also review some geometric concepts from previous units such as faces, vertices, and edges in a 3-D shape, as well as intersecting and parallel lines, rays, and segments.
Accelerated Math
The Unit 7 Study guide is due on Wed., 3/21. The Unit 7 Test is Thursday, 3/22.
Unit 7 focuses mostly on fractions and some probability.
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