Thursday, December 8 - Science test Chapter 3
Friday, December 9- bowling field trip, Math test Chapter 6
Thursday, December 15 - High Tech body systems in school field trip
Monday, December 19 - Winter Vacation begins
Tuesday, January 3- Classes resume
Our BOWLING FIELD TRIP to Brunswick Zone is scheduled for the afternoon of Friday, 12/9. Students may bring money to purchase snacks at the bowling alley. Brunswick Zone is offering a concession special: 2 slices of cheese pizza & a 16 oz. drink for $3.23 (including tax). Please keep in mind that we will be going bowling after lunch.
Thank you to all who sent in items for our Celebration of Knowledge party of Winn Dixie. We had a wonderful party with egg salad sandwiches put together with fancy toothpicks, pickles, "Dump" punch, and "Litmus Lozenges".
Math This week the students will learn how to change units of time including years, months, days, and hours. There will be a quiz over lesson 6.1-6.4 on Wednesday of this week. The students will also measure temperature and changes in temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius along with identifying and naming negative numbers by using a number line and counting techniques. There will be a test over chapter 6 Time and Temperature on Friday, December 13th.
Here are a couple of games that the children may enjoy playing to help them with their telling time and elapsed time skills.
TIME CLOCK: http://www.primarygames.com/math/timeclock/start.htm
CLOCK RACER GAME: http://justkidsgames.com/play.php?ClockRacer
Spelling This week in spelling the words will have the different sounds that /or/ and /ur/ can make. Workbook pages 167-169 will be assigned and checked daily for completion. The test will be on Friday of this week.
Reading Our reading strategies for this week are questioning, categorizing and classifying. Recognizing the question a story may raise is a good way to make sure you understand it. Also, as people read they wonder about the things they are reading and they form questions in their mind. Good readers usually do this without thinking. The students will practice the questioning strategy this week. Classifying involves grouping like items, and categorizing involves naming the group. Grouping the items makes it easier to remember them. Students will also classify and categorize information in the stories they read this week.
English This week we will continue to learn about writing descriptions. The students will learn about similes and metaphors and colorful language to help them describe how things feel, taste, sound, smell, and look like. As they are doing their independent reading they should look for passages that show examples of colorful language. They can bring things they have found at home that show examples of colorful language. The students will begin writing descriptions of animals that are found in the Southeast Region.
Science In science this week we will have a test over chapter 3, Adaptations, on Thursday of this week.
- The students should know:
- All vocabulary
- Study the sheets in their folders
- Know the stages in the life cycle of a tree and why each stage is important (see their folder for the picture of this that they drew)
- What can scientists learn about animal fossils
- Understand what will happen to animal or plant populations if their habitat has changed in some way. What will happen if their basic needs have not been met?
- Understand learned behavior and know examples of a few
- Understand what happens during hibernation
- Know animals meet their basic needs
- Know the behavioral and the physical adaptations animals have to survive
- Know some extinct animals and plants (see pictures of extinct animals and plants that we drew in class)
- Know how and why animals adapt (give examples)
- Know how plants meet their basic needs
