La Lectura

This week we spent most of our time on science. We were very efficient with the use of our time and were able to cover our Literacy fundamental routines. These included:

Essential Question: How do people uncover what they have in common?
Genre studies: Fiction
Spelling: Consonant Clusters
Word Work: Homophones and Homographs
Grammar: Understand the use of possessive pronouns.

Ciencias

What are the basic genetic mechanisms that determine the traits expressed by individuals in a population?

This part of the investigation/ discussion introduced students to the structures and mechanisms of heredity. They learned the structures involved: cell, nucleus, chromosome, allele, and gene. They were introduced to the functional relationships that determine genetic processes: genotype, phenotype, dominant allele, and recessive allele. Students practiced decoding the genotype of a larkey to discover what traits it has. They read an article that included a brief history of the discoveries leading to the understanding of genetics and a review of the structures and mechanisms involved.

• The individuals in every population vary from one another in their traits.
• Heredity is the passing of information from one generation to the next.
• Chromosomes are structures that contain hereditary information and transfer it to the next generation; they occur in nearly identical pairs in the nucleus of every cell.
• Genes are the basic units of heredity carried by chromosomes.

 

 

Mathematics

This week we learned about circles!

• We learned how to find the area of a circle
• We learned how to find the length of arcs
• We learned how to find the perimeter of a circle, also called the circumference
• We learned how to find the area and circumference of different figures

(Written by:Christian)

History & Geography

This week we learned about the Romantic revolution and the Neoclassical revolution.

• We learned the differences between neoclassical and romantic revolucion.

• We learned about the arts, and composers of that time

• We read a poem by William Wordsworth and drew bits of the poem.

(Written by:Maddie)

English Writing & Spelling

In writing this week we continued working on our argumentative writing piece.

• Worked on CUPS which stands for capitalization, usage, punctuation, and spelling.
• We completed our peer reflection

In Greek and Latin Roots this week we

• Learned the roots tri, quad, quint, quar, and penta which means three, five and four.
• Finished writing new words in our bingo board and completed our definitions

(Written by: Sophia)