La Lectura

During literature circle this week, we spent time reading and analyzing three realistic fiction pieces: La abuela de Max, Una mochila cargada de historias, Esperanza renace. We talked about the elements of the stories and discussed how these stories had a theme in common.

We also had a chance to meet for our first book club discussion of our book Esperanza Renace.

Dear parents: please make sure your child is staying on track with their reading so they can actively contribute to our discussions!!

Other objectives during Spanish literacy this week included:

• Interpret the information presented in a variety of formats and media. Explain how this presentation contributes to the topic, text or subject being studied.
• Cite relevant evidence from the text, both in oral and written form.
• Determine characters, setting, topic: compare and contrast.
• Correctly use the written accent according to the tonic accent in words at the grade level applying a systematic analysis.
• Read grade level poetry and prose orally with accuracy, appropriate rhythm and expression in progressive readings.
• Identify simple sentences. Identify phrases.
• Use the correct capitalization and punctuation in simple sentences.

Ciencias

We spent most of our time working on literacy, but we did have time to make progress on our bee project. Students created beautiful art pieces that will be used to educate the public about the current bee crisis. More information to come.This week the investigative question was: How can we plan to help an ecosystem recover after a serious disturbance? Next week we will elaborate on this, studying how natural disasters impact ecosystem and will tie their learning to the anchoring phenomenon of the bees and colony collapse disorder.

 

Mathematics

This week we continued working on Positive Numbers and the Number Line. Our objectives were:

• find the common factors and the greatest common factor of two whole numbers
• find the common multiples and the least common multiple of two whole numbers
• Find a square and a cube of a number
• find a square root of a perfect square and a cube root of a perfect cube

Our first math test will be Thursday September 27th!

History & Geography

This week we continued learning about world deserts. Our objectives were:

• understand the unique land features and water resources of the Australian continent
• describe the hard conditions of the Gobi Desert
• explain the importance of mineral resources to the Arabian Peninsula and to the United States
• describe the Mojave Desert, the Sonoran Desert, and the Chihuahuan Desert, including the areas that they cover and the characteristics unique to each one
• describe the vegetation, wildlife, and topographical features of the Patagonian and Atacama deserts\

Our first history assessment will be Tuesday September 25th!

English Writing & Spelling

Our objectives for writing were:

• identify sentence fragments and convert them to complete sentences
• identify run-on sentences and fix them using conjunctions
• understand, find, and write topic sentences
• review indentation at the beginning of a paragraph
• identify relevant details in relation to the topic sentence

Our Greek and Latin roots this week were:

• arm- “army, weapon”
• astr- “star”
• audi-“to hear”
• bene, bon – “good, well”
• mal – “bad, wretched”