1/2 Week 25

by | Mar 15, 2019 | In The Loop

History & Geography

This week we read more about America at War in 1812, including naval battles against the British and failed attempts to invade Canada.  We read the “Star-Spangled Banner” and analyzed Key’s poem in regards to what he was experiencing during the battle at Fort McHenry.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• Understand the story of Francis Scott Key and the “Star Spangled Banner”

• Identify American Naval victories and defeats

• Explain why the Battle of New Orleans was fought after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent

Science

We worked hard this week putting our speeches together for our insect reports.  On Thursday the class did a great job presenting their models and doing their speeches.  Everyone should be proud of themselves for their efforts.  We will take our Insect domain assessment next Monday.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• Write a speech based on the research gathered from the insect report.

• Edit and revise the speech

• Practice reading the speech with a partner

• Present the speech to the class and describe how your model was made

Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week ” he is a barrel of laughs ” .  The class worked on two spelling assignments and took their final spelling test on Friday.  Our Word Wall words were: shook, sometimes,  short.

La lectura

This week we read De donde saco sus manchas la gallina de guinea.

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • we focused on making connections and predictions during our first read
  • during our second read we worked on drawing conclusions throughout the story
  • learn a poem about prepositional words then we played a prepositional word matching game

Students also brought home instructions for the Spanish Animal Reports. If you have any questions please let me know!

Las matemáticas

This week we learned about fractions!

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • identify fractions that name more than one equal part of a whole
  • use models to add and subtract fractions
  • add and subtract like fractions
  • review our objectives by working in Ms.Ivary´s pizza kitchen!