Finding connections at home.
History & Geography
This week in our unit on the Civil War the class read the book Just a Few Word, Mr. Lincoln, the story of the Gettysburg Address. On Tuesday the class performed the Harriet Tubman poem for the 3/4 class. We began work on a Civil War timeline and illustrated an event from Lincoln’s life.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand the importance of the Gettysburg Address and what led up to the president’s speech
• compare and contrast General Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
• explain the roles of Lee and Grant in the Civil War
• describe the end of the Civil War
• describe the assassination of President Lincoln
Science
This week in our Simple Machine domain we continued to learn about levers. We explored using different types of levers; which included how many dictionaries does it take to lift a student. We had fun creating catapults and flinging marshmallows. We also worked in our Simple Machine journals and watched a short video about levers.
Catapults and marshmallows!
Our weekly objectives were to:
• label the parts of a lever
• explain how a lever operates
• explain how moving the fulcrum of a lever can change the effort needed to lift a load
• record results of the movement on a lever and fulcrum
English Spelling and Writing
Green sort words for next week
Blue sort words for next week
This week we read Molly la valiente y yo. Our objectives were:
- read the first half of the story focusing on the comprehension strategy making connections and predictions
- read the second half of the story and review the comprehension skill point of view
- practice reading words with the letter b
- review synonyms
- review capital in proper nouns with the French Fry Game!
Las matemáticas
This week we finished our chapter on Shapes and Patterns. Our objectives were:
- identifying three types of patterns (color, type, and turns) with 2D and 3D shapes
- identifying the types of patterns when combined
- review 3 digit addition with the Dice Game!