Literatura

This week we read ¡Los niños lo lograron en los negocios!

Our objectives were:

  • understand how to use parenthesis
  • understand how and when to use periods after prefixes and abbreviations
  •  use comprehension strategies such as summarizing and making connections to construct meaning from the text
  • to use the comprehension skill Main Idea and Supporting Details as we read the story the second time

Matemáticas

This week we finished our chapter on fractions and began our new chapter Customary Measurement.

Our objectives were:

  • Read, write, and identify fractions of a set
  • find the number of items in a fraction of a set
  • demonstrate how to use fractions to describe part of a whole or part of a set

History & Geography

Social studies with Ms. Marci.
This week we in our unit on Native Americans: Regions and Cultures we took our unit assessment and finished working on our in class portion up the final project. The students have been working hard all week with the research, writing, and typing up there papers. We can’t wait to see all of the projects that they have worked on at home. We will have our unit celebration next Tuesday. The whole class has really enjoyed listening to the novel Children of the Longhouse,this book describes the life of a Native American boy and his twin sister centuries ago. 

Our objectives were to:
• write a research paper about the tribe the student has been assigned
• review what we have learned so far
• go over expectations for the unit project.

Social Studies with Ms. Laura We dressed up and completed our unit, Americans Move West, with a review, assessment and celebration.  We read our play, “The Last Spoke is Driven”, after we laid our track from two directions, meeting in Utah!  We started our unit about The Civil War by talking about how our United States was becoming less united.  We talked about Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its significance around the world.  We talked about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.  We researched these topics on the Chrome Books after we read a book about Harriet Tubman’s life.

Science

This week in our science domain we learned about the life of Nicolaus Copernicus and about space exploration.  Our class has been working on their space scripts for our space celebration with the K/1 class on Monday April 30. We also worked on a webbing of Nicolaus Copernicus’s live and then put it into a nonfiction narrative.

Our objectives were to:
• describe the lighting contributions of Copernicus
• identify a use vocabulary important to the process of Science
• describe tools in methods used to study space and share information
• recall key details about the history of space exploration
• explain the Pluto has been real classified as a dwarf planet
• describe the effects gravity has on earth, within the solar system, and the universe

English Word Work

The class took our spelling test this Friday. I am now testing sort words as well as 3 random “No Excuse Words” each week. In our journals we used the word of the week “jostle” in one entry and wrote a list of things to do for our environment on Earth day in another. There was no grammar this week.

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