Literatura
This week we read Un abrigo nuevo para Ana.
Our objectives were:
• reader review
• understand meanings of new vocabulary words
• understand how word families have the same root word with different suffixes and prefixes
• understand that prepositions indicate the position or direction
• understand that prepositional phrases begin with a preposition and end with a noun or pronoun
- use comprehension strategies such as summarizing, and predecting to constrct meaning from the text during our first read
Matemáticas
This week we learned about bar graphs and line plots.
Our objectives were:
• Make bar graphs with scales using data in picture graphs and tally charts
- read and interpret data from bar graphs
• Solve problems using bar graphs
- Make a line plot to represent and interpret data
Our next unit will be fractions!
History & Geography
Social studies with Ms. Marci
This week in our unit on Native Americans: Regions and Cultures we read about the Native Americans from the regions of the Southwest and Northeast. The class used their creative ability and created their own Kachinas. We spent quite a bit of time taking notes and finding definitions for vocabulary terms from this unit. Everyone worked extra hard listening for important important information from the read aloud.
Our objectives were to:
• explain how the Hopi and Iroquois adapted to their environment and how this environment contributed to their cultural identity
• explain that Native Americans still lived throughout North America
• locate the Southwest and Northeast region of North America on a map and describe some of their physical characteristics
• describe the various food sources and dwellings of the Hopi and Iroquois as related to their environment
• describe some characteristics of the Hopi and Iroquois culture, including religious beliefs
• describe kachinas and their significance to the Hopi culture
• explain the significance of the winter and summer solstice to the Hopi culture
• explain why the Iroquois nation was formed
• explain that many families live together in a longhouse and that a young married couple with live with a white family
• identify what the “three sisters” were – beans, corn, and squash
Researching on our Chromebooks.
Social Studies with Ms. Laura: We reviewed our unit about The War of 1812, took a short assessment, enjoyed some typical foods of that time, beans and corn, and re-read our readers’ theater play “The Star Spangled Banner”. We stared our new unit, Americans Move West, by creating a timeline spanning 140 years. We discussed, and explored on the Chrome Books, early ways to travel west, with waterways helping travelers and mountains causing difficulties. We will discuss the building of The Erie Canal.
Science
This week in our science domain we read about gravity and how it effects everything in our universe. We did a gravity experiment and had fun painting planet night lights. The class did a great job of identifying characteristics of their planet and incorporating them into their painting.
Our objectives were to:
• identify and describe our solar system as the sun and all of the smaller bodies that orbit it, e.g., the planets, moons, asteroids, etc
• identify that the Andromida Galaxy as the closest spiral galaxy in our universe
• describe gravity
Gravity experiment
• describe the effects gravity has on Earth, within the solar system, and in the universe
English Word Work
Spelling groups got their new sorts on Monday and had a spelling test on Friday. For grammar we looked at prepositions and prepositional phrases. In our journals we used the word of the week “throng” in one entry and wrote about the saying “cold shoulder” in another.