Dates to Remember:
Monday, Nov. 12 - No School, Veteran's Day
Wed., Nov. 21-Fri., Nov. 23 No School, Thanksgiving Break
Math-This week of Nov. 12, the students will be given 6,7, 8's & 9's to study. They will need to learn those facts by Friday, Nov. 16th. They will review problem solving that involves multiplication and division. They will also be using algebra to find the missing factors.They will use related sentences and their fact families to help them solve these problems.
There is a test scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 20th over chapter 4.
Spelling- This week the students will work with words that have the sound of /ou/ as in pound, and the o sound as in jaw. They will be assigned workbook pages 117-119.
Reading - This week the students will continue to work on solving mysteries for the beginning of the week. Our focus strategy this week will be sequencing of events. Our reading skills will be: contractions and antonyms.
English- We will continue our unit on descriptive writing. They will read passages in books that have lots of figurative language and description. They will learn about similes and metaphors and work to identify them in their reading and also include them in their writing. They will begin a descriptive writing project. The students will describe animals of the Southeast Region.
Science- The students will learn how plants make their own food and compare and contrast the life cycles of plants from seeds, and plants from spores. They will also understand animal life cycles. They will study animals with direct development and those that go through a metamorphosis.
Social Studies - The students will continue to study the culture of the Native Americans of the Northeast, the Narragansett. They will describe key events that affected the Narragansett way of life once European settlers arrived. They will describe what goods the Europeans and Native Americans traded, and they will explain why the Iroquois Confederacy was established.
A test is scheduled for Thursday, November 15th over chapter 5 lesson 1. More information will follow.
