1/2 Week 15

by | Dec 21, 2018 | In The Loop

History & Geography

This week we continued our studies of Ancient Greece.  The class had fun making a Trojan horse and Athenian’ coins.  We learned about the Acropolis and the Parthenon in Athens. We finished drawing our gods and goddesses in our Greek packet.

 

Our objectives:
• locate Troy and Athens on a map
• understand the basic story of the Trojan War, including the trick of the Trojan horse
• Understand how Athenians worshiped Athena

Science

This week we finished our science domain Cycles in Nature.   On Monday we took our domain assessment. We continued to observe our water cycle experiments. Our next highly anticipated domain is on Insects.  We learned a new song identifying the body parts of an insect and read our first lesson.

Our objectives were to:
• Define the term water cycle
• describe evaporation
• review what we have learned in the Cycles in Nature domain
• explain that insects are the largest group of animals on Earth

• explain that there are many different types of insects
• explain most insects live solitary lives, but some, such as honeybees, paper wasps, ants, and termites, are social
• explain that insects live in virtually every habitat on Earth, with the exception of the oceans

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week, “stay on your toes” The class did seasonal spelling activities and took their final spelling test on Friday. Our new Word Wall words were: little, mail, nice

La lectura

  This week we read Como el Grinch robo la Navidad

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • practice sequencing
  • practice our high frequency words by playing KABOOM

Students took home 2 readers to practice over break! When we return we will be reviewing all our high frequency words so far.

Las matemáticas

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • finish our Metric Measurement unit by taking the chapter test
  • introduce Prodigy (officially!) in class

Students did take home their Prodigy Usernames and Passwords this week. Prodigy is a great online math practice game that helps review old concepts, encourages students to continue learning new concepts, and builds their computer skills. I high recommend working on it over winter break to keep those math sk

ills sharp!