History & Geography

       We learned so much about our immigrant heritage!

This week the class finished their immigrant reports and locate places on our maps where their families came from and immigrated to. If you have a minute, check out their hard work on our Immigration bulletin board.  The class had fun celebrating the end of this unit with a potluck.  Thanks to everyone for contributing food, it was fantastic and the student’s shared information about their special dish and some of their families’ immigrant stories while they enjoyed devouring their cuisine. This week we continued to work on our Civil Rights unit, learning about people like Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ruby Bridges, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr.  On Friday the class listened to King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• understand the challenges Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt faced and how they helped people
• recognize Jackie Robinson’s role in the integration of baseball
• identify Ruby Bridge and Rosa Park’s famous acts
• understand what a bus boycott is
• recognize different ways the United States was segregated
• identify Martin Luther King Jr. And understand the importance of non-violence to King
• recognize King’s “I Have a Dream” speech

Science

This week in our Simple Machines continued to learn about complex machines.  We read the biography of Elijah McCoy, an African American inventor who reduced friction on trains by inventing a lubrication device that allowed the trains to move much more rapidly.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  Explain that simple machines can be combined together to make a complex machine
•  Examine and name the types of simple machines that are found in a complex machine
• Recall Elijah McCoy’s life and contributions

English Spelling and Writing

King for a day,
A reading rock star!

We learned the idiom of the week “It knocked her socks off” and wrote about it in their journals.  The class worked on spelling assignments and took their last final spelling test on Friday.  We reviewed difficult word wall words this week. Students will be assessed on these next week.

La lectura

This week we continued to discuss immigration. We read Bagels con Jalapenos. Our objectives were:

• review asking question before during and after our first read
• review making connections during our second week
• describe our heritage in Spanish based off of the English papers that were written
• discuss how our potluck connects to the International Day that was mention in the story
• complete our end of the year high-frequency word assessment.

Las matemáticas

This week we continued to review math concepts from the year by playing Math Olympics. This week we reviewed:

• place  value
• rounding
• placing numbers in ascending and descending order
• using less than and more than symbols

Students will be bringing home a year in review packet to keep their math skills sharp this summer! If students bring it back on the first day of school they will receive a special prize!