La Lectura
This week’s essential question was: How was life like for people in ancient cultures? We enjoyed reading and discussing two historical fiction pieces. The objectives were to:
• Identify and explain the characteristics of historical fiction.
• Identify key ideas and details about ancient societies.
• As we read the stories, take notes and summarize the main ideas, ask and answer questions.
• Integrate knowledge and ideas and make text-to-text connections.
• Analyze the craft and structure of a text: make predictions and determine point of view.
• Express ourselves with fluency and expression, enunciating properly in the target language, especially when in front of an audience.
• Identify the key elements of a play.
• Vocabulary and word studies: Connotations.
• Accurately identify plural nouns and collective nouns.
• Spelling: Words with c, k, and q
Ciencias
Now that students have been studying the interactions and interdependence amongst organisms in the Yellowstone ecosystem, they will create a food web showing the transfer of energy from one organism to another. Applying their knowledge about food webs and energy transfer in a balanced system, students will construct a model ecosystems. Students will have to explain each part of the model to show how the ecosystem works.
Guiding Questions:
What is this model trying to show?
How does this model give us more information about the ecosystem than a food web does?
What types of organisms will they have at each trophic level and how will these organisms interact?
What non-living, or abiotic factors will play a role?
Mathematics
This week we continued working on Chapter 4 Ratios. Our objectives were:
- Complete real-world problems with ratios, three quantities, two ratios, and with before and after ratios
Students should complete their Chapter 4 Review over break. We will have a day to review and clarify when we return from the break before the chapter test
History & Geography
This week we continued learning about Ancient Greece and Rome. Our objectives were:
- Identify architectural features of the Pantheon in Rome.
- Describe the sweeping changes made by Caesar Augustus to the army, buildings, arts, and law.
- Describe how Augustus restored Roman pride in the empire and brought about the Pax Romana.
English Writing & Spelling
Our objectives for writing were:
- Understand and edit Punctuation in our writing
- Understand and edit Spelling in our writing
Our Greek and Latin roots this week were:
- Flec, flex: to bend
- Foli: leaf
- Form: to shape
Specialists
Character Education with Ms. Jennie In character ed, we continue to read Number the Stars and have done another Reader’s Theatre on one of the intense scenes in the book where Nazi soldiers search the home of the Johansen’s. Since we are celebrating Thanksgiving this month, our theme is Gratitude and our quote is “The best things in life are not things” and our poem is “The Harvest Moon” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. We illustrate each quote and glue in the poem in our composition notebooks each month so they will have a nice collection at the end of the year. In December, we will set up our Giving Tree for Share so please look for it in the hallway and consider purchasing a gift for someone in need in our community!