Literatura
This week we read El dólar viajero.
Our objectives were:
- to understand and identify sequence within out story using words that indicate time and order
- practice conjugating our -ir verbs
- use comprehension strategies asking questions, making connections, and summarizing to construct meaning from the text during our first read
- review adverbs and practice using them within sentences
Matemáticas
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This week we finished our unit on time and temperature.
Our objectives were:
- Find elapsed time
- Read a Fahrenheit thermometer
- Choose the appropriate tool and unit to measure temperature
- Use a referent to estimate temperature
- Solve up to two-step word problems on time
- Solve word problems involving temperature
History & Geography
Social studies with Ms. Marci
This week in our unit on European Exploration of North America we learned about the expeditions Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain. We continue to work on our vocabulary and travel log note-taking as well as our end of unit project.
Our objectives were to:
• identify motivating factors that led to the exploration of the Americas in different expeditions
• locate on a map key places explored and visited by the Spanish and English.
• explain the importance to Europeans of finding a Northwest Passage
• describe the contributions of Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain in exploring North America in search of the Northwest Passage
• locate the Hudson River, the Hudson Bay, Quebec, Canada, the Saint Lawrence River, and the Great Lakes on a map
• describe the purpose of missionaries during French exploration of North America
• describe the encounters between early explorers and Native Americans
Social Studies with Ms. Laura We continued our study of immigration and citizenship by learning about Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. We learned about what life was really like for many immigrants who came to America. We write letters to friends and family in our ‘homelands’ describing our journey to and our life in America.
PROJECT ALERT REMINDER: The students will gather information about an immigrant. This might be a family member, a friend or someone famous. The students have suggested questions to answer. They are encouraged to be creative, to learn some things and to have fun! At least one page (handwritten or typed) will be turned in and an oral report (between three and five minutes) will be presented on Tuesday, May 29th. Students may dress up, may bring ‘stuff’ that is relevant and are invited to bring some food to share. We have talked about this project in class and they know what they need to do!
Being on the top of the food chain is hard work!
Feel free to join us around 1:15 p.m. on May 29th! Thanks for your help!
Science
This week in our ecology domain we learned about the balance of nature. The class was already asking questions about this before we got to the lessons. They wondered what would happen if a link, or trophic level was eliminated from the chain. On Tuesday we made a food web to demonstrate all the interconnections that exist in nature. On Friday the class had fun playing “Oh Deer” a game that demonstrates an in balance of nature.
Making a food web game
Our objectives were to:
• provide an example of a food chain in a given food web
• explain why nature and ecosystems are not static but are constantly changing
• describe the balance of nature in an ecosystem
• explain how changes in an ecosystem are caused by natural events and by humans
Monkey group being monkeys
English Word Work
The class took our spelling test this Friday. For grammar we reviewed interjections. In our journals we used the word of the week “jaunt” in one entry and in another the class described a food chain that might be found in their back yard.