History & Geography
Greek Chorus takes a bow
We wrapped up our Greek unit this short week with a review on Thursday. We played Jeopardy, answering questions about Ancient Greece and read through our Greek packet. Fable groups practice reading and acting out their plays. On Friday we celebrated with our Greek day. We had fun participating in a mini Olympics, trading goods at the Agora, and performing our fables for the 3rd and 4th grade class. Next week we will begin our American Constitution unit.
Our objectives:
• review what we have covered in our Ancient Greek lessons
• finish any unfinished work in our Greek packet
Chariot races at the Olympics
Trading goods at the agora
Science
On Thursday we finished reading about social insects; ants and termites. We worked in our insect journals and wrote about how termites and ants work together in a community. We began to discuss our upcoming insect report. Students are thinking about what specific insect they would like to report on and make a model of. I will send more information on this project in an email on Monday so students can work on it at home if we miss school next week due to snow.
Our objectives were to:
• explain that insects are the largest group of animals on Earth
• explain that there are many varieties of insects
• distinguish between social and solitary insects
• describe how all members of a social insect colony come from one queen
We are going buggy for insects!
• describe the social behavior of ants and ant colonies
• describe the roles of worker ants, males, and queens
English Spelling and Writing
In our journals we used the idiom of the week, she is hitting the books. The class got their new sort list but we won’t be taking the practice test until Monday due to the short school week. Our Word Wall words was: people
La lectura
This week we began learning about Black History Month.
Our weekly objectives were to:
- read about famous Black Americans including Martin Luther King Jr,, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and Ruby Bridges
- create a Black History Month Booklet with facts about each person we read about
Las matemáticas
Our weekly objectives were to begin learning about Money:
- review how to say each coin in Spanish
- understand how to write coins using the cents symbol and the dollar symbol
- learn about bills and how to say them in Spanish
- understand how to write bills using the cents symbol and the dollar symbol
Have students practice exchanging coins and bills at home for extra practice. Remember that Prodigy is a great resource to keep those math skills sharp, in case of a few snowy days.