La Lectura

Weekly Concept/Genre: Informational Text

Essential question: How does technology lead to discoveries?

This week we continued with our informational texts studies. We had such an insightful time discussing and analyzing the concepts presented in the texts: Detectives de luz and Buscador de planetas. Students had a chance to worked on their expository writing pieces, conference with peers and submit final drafts. We have schedules presentations for next Tuesday 14th (Jack, Tamra, Rafa, Evan) and Thursday 16th at 2:30 (Lily, Maddie, Sophia, Juliette, Sophie, Christian). Families  are welcome to attend presentations!

Objectives:

• Cite evidence from the text
• Determine the structure of the text: establish the sequence of the text to better comprehend  the information presented. 
• Using evidence from the text, explain main ideas and supporting details to better comprehend the text (paraphrase)
• Writing informative texts: Editing, Revising, Publishing.
• Provide meaningful examples and explain how ideas are connected to the topic at hand.

 

Ciencias

This week students took home a rubric with the requirements for our independent science end of the year project. Please help your child narrow down the area of studies they would like to do their research on. A suggestion was to pick an area of interest seen at our Omsi camp.

Mathematics

This week we began our new chapter Surface Area and Volume. We learned about:

• Identify the nets of a prism and a pyramid
• Identify the solid formed by a given net
• Find the surface area of a prism and a pyramid

History & Geography

This week we learned about the Industrial Revolution.

• We read  our last chapter of The Industrial Revolution called In our Time
• We learned how the time we live in now is called the Information Age, and all the new things we have that they did not back then
• On Tuesday and Thursday we did Jeopardy to study for our test, then we took the test.
• On Friday we started Independence of Latin America: Revolutions in America.

   (Written by: Maddie)

English Writing & Spelling

• We finished CUPS (Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling).
• We worked on our informative writing and we checked it with multiple partners
• We added some transition words, and a variety of sentences
• Finished our Greek & Latin roots packet (Roots: vi, urb, terr)

(Written by: Sophia)