Monday, march 9 - Confernce week begins
Tuesday, March 10 - Report cards go home
Thursday, March 12 - School Improvement Day 1/2 day of school
Friday, March 13 - No school /Conferences
Spelling - No spelling test this week.
English - We will begin a unit on pronouns this week. The students will identify pronouns in a sentence. They will distinquish between singular and plural pronouns.
Reading We will continue our work with making inferences. We will finish the story Skylark, and the students will listen to and read other stories in which they will have to make inferences about characters actions based on clues from the story and their background knowledge.
Social Studies- There will be a test over Chapter 9 on Thursday of this week.
The students should study:
- All vocabulary
- Early life of the Ojibwa
- Explorers of the Midwest and what they are known for exploring
- John Deere
- How the pioneers survived when they came to the Midwest
- Midwestern cities that were trading posts
- Why a water route to the Midwest was important
- Steamboat purpose
- Compare advantages to shipping by rail vs steamboat
- Why the Ojibwa relied on game instead of farming for their main source of food
- Goals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Why Cahokia nd St. Louis were good places for trade
- Compare the two main types of homes that early Midwestern pioneers built. Be ready to describe them and tell where and how they were built Tell the advantages and disadvantages of a sod house.
Things to know:
- All vocabulary
- Measuement of force of gravity on an object
- The force taht resists motion between objects
- What happens when you increase the force on an object
- Understand the concept of gravity
- Two things that are measured to find speed
- Why is the gas pedal in a car called an accelerator?
- Why do we need friction? Give specific reasons. What are examples of friction?
- What things can reduce friction? Explain why.
- Inertia - understand what it is and how it works
- Understand the difference between mass and weight
