La Lectura y las matemáticas

This week we are going to have Whole Group lessons on Mondays and Fridays at 1:00.

On Monday the class will discuss dividing into smaller groups for Zoom meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The groups times for Math Zoom Meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays will be:

1:00-1:30            1:35-2:05      2:10-2:40          2:45-3:15

We will have 4 students in each math session. Meeting information will be the same.

I will also have an open hour on Wednesdays 1:00-2:00 for anyone who has questions or needs help.  (I will post the meeting information each Wednesday.)

We continue to read, acquiring new vocabulary and new awareness of sentence structures.  Please ask your child to retell you their story.  Retelling has SO much value. The importance of retelling stories is that it allows students to learn to organize and describe events, which enhances reading comprehension. … Retelling stories helps language learners begin to understand sequence, plot, and characterization as they build vocabulary and comprehension skills.

Weekly writing assignments allows students to use their vocabulary, grammar and language awareness in context, while asking them to create something new.

Our math objectives this week will be:

• use bar models to solve two-step word problems
• choose the correct operation to solve two-step word problems
• review and test on all concepts learned so far

Science

This week our science objectives will be to:

~Explain why nature ad ecosystems are not static but are constantly changing

~Describe the balance of nature in an ecosystem

~Explain how changes in an ecosystem are caused by natural events and by humans

~Explain why animals must leave their habitat when natural balance is lost

Explain how ecosystems are affected by changes in the environment

History and Geography

This week our history goal will be to:

Work cooperative in pairs to research an European explorer and present their findings to the class on Friday.  They will research the following:

Where and when the explorer was born?

What country did the explorer sail for?

What were they trying to find?

Information on their voyages: name of ships, dates, what did they actually find, how many voyages, route/s they took

What is the most important thing that came from their exploration

Any additional and/or interesting information

Draw a picture of the explorer and/OR dress up as that explorer for the presentation on Friday