History & Geography
This week we continued learning about the Renaissance. Our objectives were:
- review vocabulary from past chapters
- begin reading the chapter Two How-To Men
Next Monday we will be painting! We will use washable paint but please send your student in clothes that can get dirty just in case.
Mathematics
This week we began learning about Ratios. Our objectives were:
- use ratios to compare two things
- understand that you do not need the actual amount of items to create the ratio
- find the simplest ratio using the greatest common factor
- find missing terms using multiplication or division
Lectura
Congratulations to all our students for successfully completing our Biographies project. make sure you atop by our bulletin board to see their work.
Our objectives for this week in Spanish literacy included:
- Apply reading comprehension skills and strategies as they read the selection: summarizing, clarifying, asking questions, identifying cause and effect situations.
- Understand the spelling patterns of homophones with s.
- Understand the use of pronouns in context (demonstrative pronouns and possessive pronouns in particular)
- Learn how to paraphrase text.
- Using the information gathered, accurately organize it into categories.
- Cross-check different sources of information.
Ciencias
Students were introduced to a system as a collection of interacting parts that work together to make a whole or produce an action. They are presented with a common device and identify all the elements that go together to make that system. Students described other systems and subsystems.
- A system is a collection of interacting parts, ideas, and/or procedures that together define a physical entity or process.
- A subsystem is a small system that is inside a larger system.
- Earth can be described as the interaction of four earth systems: the rocky part (the geosphere), the atmosphere, the water (hydrosphere), and the complexity of living organisms (the biosphere).
- Food webs are subsystems within ecosystems. They describe the transfer of matter and energy within the system.