Friday, Dec. 12 - Field trip money and permission is due
Tuesday, Dec. 16- Early dismissal, 11:00
Monday, Dec. 22 - Jan. 2 - Winter Vacation
Monday, January 5 - Classes resume
As you know your students have the Chromebooks back for the month of December. They have been doing a great job of keeping their Chromebooks charged and remembering to bring them to school each day. Thank you for your encouragement with this.
Spelling- This week is a review week in spelling. All the students will be responsible for completing the workbook pages 187-189. There will be a test on Friday.
Math- The students will estimate products by rounding and use the distributive property to multiply two digit numbers. Then they will multiply two two-digit numbers.
English- In English this week the students will be writing an expository essay, informing us about a hero in their life.
Reading - This week in reading, we will continue close reading the biography of Lou Gherig. The students will work with a partner to complete text dependent questions. They will also work with vocabulary from the story. They should practice their vocabulary words with the Quizlet in their Google Classroom. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Friday of this week over the vocabulary. The students should be able to understand the meanings of the words and write them in good sentence. I should be able to tell they understand the meaning of the words in their sentences without it being a definition.
Social Studies- The students will research information and create their Southeast slide show this week. They will use their Chromebooks for this, and they can be working on this at home as well. We will begin a lesson on the Native Americans of the Southeast.
Science - There is a science test planned for Thursday of this week over chapter 2 lesson 2 & 3, Life Cycles of Plants and Animals. The students should study all sheets in their binder and main concepts in their book.
The students should know:
all vocabulary
understand how plants grow and develop( Which comes first the leaves or the flower? Why does that have to be?)
understand tubers and be able to give examples
the parts of the plant and what they do (roots, stem, seed)
understand mosses and ferns
understand the animal life cycle and how it begins
understand the human life cycle and be able to describe them
know the different ways that animals grow and develop (direct development, complete metamorphosis, incomplete metamorphosis) Be able to give examples of the animals that go through the different stages.
