History & Geography

Social Studies:
In our studies of Ancient Greece this week we learned took a tour of Athens and learned why they called the period after the Persian Wars the “golden age”. On Thursday we held a symposium, students enjoyed feta cheese, smoked fish, raisins, and Greek pita  bread while listening to parts of Homer’s epic poem the Ilia, as well as some local talented musicians and dancers. On Friday the class worked on making tableaux drawings on Greek vases.

Our objectives:
•Understand the golden age as the period when Athenian culture reached its highest point
• identify Pericles as a ruler of Athens during its golden age
• recognize some additional features of Athenian life
• recognize an Athenian symposium
• Identify some arts in which Athens excelled, including pottery, music, and poetry

Science

The class is having a so much fun getting to know Blue and Rose, our Blue Death Feigning beetles. This week we studied social insects, such as bees, ants, and wasps.  In our insect journals we drew pictures of a bee and a wasp and wrote sentences of what we have learned about each of them.

Our objectives were to:
• explain that most insects live solitary lives but some such as honey bees and paper wasps, or social
• distinguish between social and solitary insects
• describe how all members of a social insect colony come from one queen
• describe the roles of honeybee workers, drones, and queens
• describe how honeybees communicate with one another through “dances”

English Spelling and Writing

On Tuesday we read about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and wrote in our journals about what his speech in Washington DC meant to us as individuals. In our journals we also used the idiom of the week, he has his head in the clouds. The class got their new spelling sorts and worked on several ways to sort them. They took a their practice test on Friday. Our Word Wall words were: off, other, our

La lectura

This week we learned about Martin Luther King Jr.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Place important dates in Martin Luther King Jr.’s life in chronological order
• understand vocabulary from the passage
• Create a lap book about Martin Luther King Jr.

Our PUF words for next week are: negro, abre

 

Las matemáticas

 

This week we learned about Volume. Our weekly objectives were to:

• Explore and compare volume
• Use liters to estimate, measure, and compare volume

If you find any liter containers (milk boxes, Gatorade bottles, etc.) please have your kiddo bring them into class to empty use during math!