No test over this story!!
The Fun They Had
Vocabulary:
progress, calculated, dispute, centuries, superior, insert, waste, inspector, mechanical, average
Online flash cards can be found here.
Reading comprehension/ Skills in context:
Text and Graphic features
This week we will be finishing up Graphing and Data. This is not a chapter in our book so we will be doing activities and worksheets to supplement.
Students need to continue to practice multiplication flashcards at home. Not knowing our facts is holding us back at times during math class.
The following are some links to games for math practice.
www.turtlediary.com/game/mixed-numbers-into-improper-fractions.html
www.turtlediary.com/game/add-and-subtract-fractions.html
www.turtlediary.com/game/area.html
This quarter our focus for writing is personal narratives. We are set to start writing our first drafts of our narrative writing this week. It will be a work in progress though.
Current Event Requirements:
~Choose 4 different activities to complete
~3 of the current events you find should be Science topics
~Your last current event maybe on any school appropriate topic (Sports, News, Entertainment, Etc.)
~Students should use complete sentences and use their own words.
~Pages should be completed neatly and completely. Any paragraphs should be 5-7 sentences.
~First Science Current Event Due: January 19
~Second Science Current Event Due: February 2
~Third Science Current Event Due: February 16
~Fourth Current Event on your choice of topic Due: March 2
Current Event Links:
http://www.timeforkids.com/news
http://magazines.scholastic.com/
https://newsela.com/articles/?category=kids
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/
http://tweentribune.com/ (From the Smithsonian)
We are learning about plant and animal adaptations.
No test this week due to ISTEP.
The rest of the test will be review words from the back pages of the spelling workbook.