La Lectura

Congratulations to all our students for successfully completing another book club! So much learning accomplished, so many more memories made. Esperanza renace!

Every week in literacy, we introduce some essential questions. Based on their personal experiences and in a collaborative manner, students start generating possible answers. We provide students with many opportunities for dialogue and dialectic (oral language development).  This week the essential question were:  What are some of the characteristics that make humans different form the rest of the species? What is money and why is it used? What factors influence how people use money? We analyzed the quote “Money can’t buy happiness”.

Other objectives this week included:

• Identify key characteristics of expository texts and different sources of media.
• Define the theme or main idea of a text and how these are transmitted through certain specific details.
• Define the point of view or the purpose of the author of a text, and explain how these authors manifest themselves in the text.
• Follow and evaluate the argument of a text and its specific assertions. Distinguish those statements that are based on reasons and evidence, those that do not.
• Correctly use the written accent according to the tonic accent in words at the grade level applying a systematic analysis (compound words).
• Identify main and juxtaposed sentences.

Students took home a rubric that explains the end of the unit project that will be done in class next week. Please have your child explain it to you. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting me! Oh, and don’t forget to study for our mini-grammar quizzes every  Monday!

Ciencias

This week students read science materials to better understand the concepts of community, ecosystem and environment. Students sorted organism pictures into two sets, based on the kind of physical environment in which the organisms might live, aquatic or terrestrial. They started to assemble an aquarium and a terrarium in preparation for introducing organisms next week.

 

Mathematics

This week we continued working on Chapter 3 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions and Decimals. Our objectives were:

• Multiply a decimal by a decimal
• Divide a fraction, whole number, or mixed number by a fraction or a mixed number

History & Geography

This week we continued learning about Ancient Greece and Rome. Our objectives were:

• Understand the achievements of Sparta and Athens during the wars
• Describe the persian Wars and the battles of Sardis, marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis
• Recognize the successes of Pericles, including the formation of the Delian league and the rebuilding of the Acropolis, including the Parthenon
• Describe the architecture of the Parthenon
• Identify contributions that Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Hippocrates made to Greek culture

English Writing & Spelling

Our objectives for writing were:

• Understand how to use dialogue effectively to advance the plot of a narrative writing piece
• Write a topic sentence for our conclusion paragraph of our narrative
• Write our rough draft

Our Greek and Latin roots this week were:

• Cor- heart
• Cred, cert- believe, sure, trust
• Create a bulletin board with all the Greek and Latin Roots we have learned so far