History & Geography
We had our Westward Expansion celebration on Monday. The class enjoyed a special treat of Johnny cakes and beans with pork. Each student shared what they were bringing on the Oregon Trail and we made a class Wagon Train to go on the journey. We began our next unit on the Civil War. The class is working on reading the book Journey North about Harriet Tubman’s experiences, they also learned a poem about Harriet Tubman.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand that discriminates between Northern and Southern states over slavery.
• recognize two enemies of slavery: colo Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman
• identify Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Underground Railroad.
• understand what Southerners wanted
• recognize Abraham Lincoln, his background, and his feelings about slavery.
• identify the beginning of early battles of the Civil War
Science
This week in our Simple Machine domain we finished up our lessons on screws and began to learn about levers. We continued to explore using screws and screw drivers on wood and did a lever exercise on Friday. We worked in our Simple Machine journals and watched a short video about levers and screws.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• the student will identify that a screw is an inclined plane that curves around a shaft or pole
• label the parts of a lever
• explain how a lever operates
English Spelling and Writing
La lectura
This week we read Huellas de Monstruos
Our weekly objectives were to:
- Review comprehension skills especially making connections
- Create a list of rhyming words
- Begin a writing piece using at least 4 pairs of rhyming words
Next week we will begin our new unit!
Las matemáticas
This week we began works with shapes. Our weekly objectives were to:
- review the 4 basic shapes (circles, rectangles, squares, triangles)
- Introduce two new shapes, trapezoid and hexagon
- Practice copying figures onto dot paper and grid paper