La Lectura

 

This week in Literacy, we continued working on our objectives from last week. Students did a great job editing, revising and writing their final book review  piece. We are very excited to share these published pieces with you all on our Spanish bulletin next week. Be on the lookout!

We also had a chance to finish reading El relato de un naufrago, by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It was very moving to have had the opportunity to share with my students the work of one of the most accomplished and renowned writers in contemporary Spanish literature. They learned about him, the influence of his work not only in Latin-America  but all around the world, and maybe got inspired to read some other classic pieces of Spanish literature.

Ciencias

This week we continued to discuss the concept of adaptations. We started to view a video about population changes on the island of Hawaii. Students are identifying and reporting on the adaptations that affect the survival of organisms in this sensitive ecosystem.

 

Mathematics

This week we continued learning about Algebraic Expressions.

• We learned how to use the distributive property to expand algebraic expressions.
• Then, we learned different techniques to simplify algebraic expressions.
• Finally, we learned how to factor an algebraic expression.

(Written by: Juliette Murrow )

History & Geography

This week we continued learning about the French Revolution.

• We learned about what it is like to live in Versailles and how it was built.
• We wrote letters from a noble who lives in Versailles and about their daily life.
• We learned why people disliked Queen Marie Antoinette.  

(Written by: Lily Hubbard)

English Writing & Spelling

This week we continued learning about Argumentative Writing. Our greek/latin roots this week were mob/mot, tract, and tend/tens/tent.

• We did a greek and latin roots packet with our greek and latin roots and learned that our roots all have something to do with movement.
• We learned about body paragraphs and the power of 3 and strengthening our argument.
• On tuesday we learned about writing an introduction and how it is the claim.

(Written by: Christian Alexander )