Study multiplication facts nightly!
ELA:
Informational Writing - Begin Opinion Writing
Mentor Sentence: Looking at mentor text and discussing how to incorporate style of various sentences into personal writing. This week's focus: figurative language
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
A loud clap of thunder shook the house, rattled the windows and made me grab her close.
Mentor Sentence: Looking at mentor text and discussing how to incorporate style of various sentences into personal writing. This week's focus: figurative language
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
A loud clap of thunder shook the house, rattled the windows and made me grab her close.
Vocabulary: Week 18 - Quiz Thursday, March 15
**Know the words and their meanings as well as how to use the words correctly in a sentence according to their meaning** This week we will also focus on the 3 types of sentences and the ability to write compound, complex, and simple sentences and identify the difference between the three types of sentences
present - a period of time that is now occurring; to deliver a speech or idea
concise - short and gets to the pointin a few words
specific - clearly defined or identified
prank -a practical joke or trick
continuous - without an end
decline - unwillingness to consider an idea or request
pivot - to turn as if on a pin
gnaw - to bite or chew with your teeth
**Know the words and their meanings as well as how to use the words correctly in a sentence according to their meaning** This week we will also focus on the 3 types of sentences and the ability to write compound, complex, and simple sentences and identify the difference between the three types of sentences
present - a period of time that is now occurring; to deliver a speech or idea
concise - short and gets to the pointin a few words
specific - clearly defined or identified
prank -a practical joke or trick
continuous - without an end
decline - unwillingness to consider an idea or request
pivot - to turn as if on a pin
gnaw - to bite or chew with your teeth
Reading: Synthesizing text - putting all the pieces together
Science:
Study Guide went home (3/7)
SL1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the similarities and differences
between plants, animals, and habitats found within geographic regions
(Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal Plains, Valley and Ridge, and
Appalachian Plateau) of Georgia.
a. Ask questions to differentiate between plants, animals, and habitats found within Georgia's
geographic regions.
b. Construct an explanation of how external features and adaptations
(camouflage, hibernation,migration, and mimicry) of animals allow them to survive
in their habitat.
c. Use evidence to construct an explanation of why some organisms can thrive in one habitat
and not in another.
Study Guide went home (3/7)
SL1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the similarities and differences
between plants, animals, and habitats found within geographic regions
(Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal Plains, Valley and Ridge, and
Appalachian Plateau) of Georgia.
a. Ask questions to differentiate between plants, animals, and habitats found within Georgia's
geographic regions.
b. Construct an explanation of how external features and adaptations
(camouflage, hibernation,migration, and mimicry) of animals allow them to survive
in their habitat.
c. Use evidence to construct an explanation of why some organisms can thrive in one habitat
and not in another.
Math:
Study multiplication facts each night.
Measurement: Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters
of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an
unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and
different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
Study multiplication facts each night.
Measurement: Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters
of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an
unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and
different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
Homework:
NO Spiral or Orange Folders this week - work on reading and project
NO Spiral or Orange Folders this week - work on reading and project
* Read 30 minutes nightly
* Study Habitats & Regions
* Study Habitats & Regions
* Study multiplication facts
* IXL (starred items in math and ela), Mobymax (fact fluency), Khan Academy
* Work on Explorers Bottle Buddy project - due March 23rd
Important Dates:
March 8 - Bookfair preview
March 8-15 - Bookfair
March 15 - Vocabulary 18 Quiz
March 23 - Bottle Buddy Explorer Project due
March 29 - Georgia Regions & Habitats Summative
March 8 - Bookfair preview
March 8-15 - Bookfair
March 15 - Vocabulary 18 Quiz
March 23 - Bottle Buddy Explorer Project due
March 29 - Georgia Regions & Habitats Summative
Technology:
Students have log-ins for the following programs and can practice at home: IXL,
Khan Academy, MobyMax, Typing.com. If you need this information, and have lost the
letters that went home, please email and I will be happy to share with you.
Khan Academy, MobyMax, Typing.com. If you need this information, and have lost the
letters that went home, please email and I will be happy to share with you.
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