Junior Achievement will begin this week on Wed.
The "Amazing Animals" assembly will be on Wed. of this week.
Reading This week in reading we will continue our work with problem/solution. We will begin a new theme called "Battle of the Wits" The students will be challenged with determining the problems and solutions of the characters in our stories this week.
This will take us right into our Inventions unit. Many inventions were created to solve problems that people had every day and/or to make life easier for people. Some inventions were even created by mistake. Believe it or not, many inventions were created by kids. Look for the information coming home on Monday. The students should be thinking about an invention that can make their life easier. We will discuss this in class on Monday. Their idea for their invention will be due on Wednesday of this week.
English This week we will begin a unit on poetry. The students will learn about the different kinds of poetry and write their own acrostic, cinquain, and alliteration poems.
If they have a favorite poetry book, they may bring it in to share with the class.
Social Studies This week the students will have a quiz on Wednesday over the map of the Midwest. They should be able to label the states correctly and the bodies of water (Great Lakes). They will earn 1/4 point for every capital they can label correctly.
Their assignment tonight is to fill in the map of the Midwest. They will be graded on the neatness and spelling. They should also color each state a different color and outline the states in a skinny black marker. The bodies of water should be shaded in blue and labeled as well.
A test over chapter nine in social studies is scheduled for Wednesday, April 9th.
They should begin reviewing the vocabulary in the chapter and then the main concepts at the end of each lesson and section in the chapter.
Questions to know:
1. Why did the Ojibwa rely on fish, game, and wild rice instead of farming as their main sources of food?
2. What challenges did the Midwestern settlers face and how could they overcome these challenges?
3. What were two main goals of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
4. Why were Cahokia and St. Louis good places for trade?
5. How did the invention of the steamboat affect the city of St. Louis?
Science This week in science the students will learn about simple machines. They will learn about the first simple machine used by humans-the lever. Along with this they will learn the vocabulary terms: load, load arm, force arm, fulcrum and effort and be able to label them in a diagram. They will learn about different types of levers: first, second, and third class levers. The other simple machine they will learn about this week is the inclined plane. They will investigate to see how an inclined plane makes work easier.
Math - In math this week the students will review the units for capacity. They will begin to review the metric units of measurement. They will study the metric units of length, mass, and capacity. A division 7 timed test will be given on Friday. Be sure to ask you child if he/she passed out the thier 6 division. They should make it up during recess if they did not.
