Classwork:

We are successfully using individual work, partner work and small group work. Centers are going great and reading groups are working out wonderfully.  

ELA: 

Unit 2 MyView/SAVVAS: Adaptations

“The Weird and Wonderful Echidna and The Very Peculiar Platypus”

Weekly Essential Question-How do adaptations make animals unique?

Learning Goals-I can learn more about informational text by integrating information from multiple sources.

I can use elements of informational text to write an article.

Spelling: attract, distract, distraction, erupt, eruption, disrupt, interrupt, territory, territorial, terrain, traction, abstract, aquatic, aquamarine, abrupt, diction, dictionary, dictate, verdict 

Vocabulary-

Selection Vocabulary: monotremes, unique, adaptations, burrow

Academic Vocabulary: survive, classified, sufficient, defense, acquire

Word Study: Latin Roots terr, rupt, tract, aqua, dict and Greek Roots bio, phon, scope, graph, meter, tele

Language and Conventions: Subject-Verb Agreement

Writing Goal: Pre-Writing: Edit Complete Sentences, Edit for Nouns, Publish and Celebrate, Prepare for Assessment, and Assessment with a Travel Article

Animal Research: Editing/peer editing

Math

Unit 2 iReady Math-Operations: Multiplication, Division and Algebraic Thinking 

Essential Questions: 

• How are multiplication and division related?

• How can you identify the value of a variable in an equation?

• Which model of multiplication (or division) can I use comfortably to find a product or quotient?

Key Concepts: 

• Calculate the product of an equation and model

• Calculate the quotient of an equation and model 

• Model word problem with numbers of pictures

• Create an equation and solution

Social Studies

Martin Luther King Jr. 

Science

Animal Research/Animal Adaptations

WIG (Wildly Important Goal)

Practice multiplication and division facts daily 0-12.