History & Geography

REMINDER: There will be no Google Meets meetings on Monday May 25!

This week we will continue to learn about Westward Expansion Before the Civil War. Our objectives will be:

• Understand why the United States went to war against Mexico.
• Explain why the Mormons settled in the Far West.
• Read an excerpt of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mathematics

This week we will continue learning about the Properties of Triangles and Four-Sided Figures. Our objectives will be:

• understand and apply the property that the sum of the angle measures of a triangle is 180
• understand and apply the properties of right, isosceles, and equilateral triangles

Literatura

This week in lectura, we will be studying short stories of El género narrativo .  Students have been assigned a reading of our book “Béisbol en abril”. We will be having our book club discussion on Friday. Please make sure you remind your child to be ready for our discussion. 

Science 

This week we will review and summarize the main concepts seen these last few weeks during our Sensory Systems unit.  To bring closure to the study of systems, students will read about the North Atlantic Ocean ecosystem and its importance in the carbon cycle.  We will use this reading to talk about our science studies this year, and brainstorm ideas on how we can apply these concepts for our end of the year science project. Students have the freedom to choose any topic or  area of interest for their science research project. 

Students have been given a rubric, as well as an example of how the project should look like. They are welcome to include any and all their creative ideas during this project. Science Research Project will be presented the week of June 8th. 

These are the guiding questions for the project:

¿Cuál es el tema de tu informe de investigación?

(What is the topic for your research project?) 

¿Cuál es la pregunta de enfoque de tu proyecto? 

(What is your guiding question?)

¿Cuál será tu plan de investigación para tu proyecto?

(How do you plan to develop your project?)

¿Qué fuentes confiables piensas usar para tu investigación? 

(What sources will you be using?)

¿Cómo planeas hacer tu presentación a la clase? 

(How do you plan to present to the class?)