POD 1 (Dausy, Porter, Wright)

ELAR

Mrs. Wright

Mrs. Wright's Website

4th Nine Weeks

READING skills focus: Analyzing poetry and STAAR readiness activities beginning mid April

WRITING skills focus:

  • Cursive Practice (not graded)

  • Revising and editing short passages

  • Grammar, punctuation

  • Forms of poetry

GRAMMAR skills focus:

    • Parts of speech

    • Sentence structure

SPELLING:

GoogleClassroom/ELAR/Spelling/Vocabulary A-Z

Spelling quizzes count as daily grades

3 Major Grades each 9 weeks Unless otherwise stated, there are no study guides for reading tests as they are based on reading passages. Students have access to the passages during testing in order to re-read and use text evidence to prove answers to questions.

Math

Mrs. Porter

Mrs. Porter's Website

STAAR REVIEW

  • place value

  • rounding

  • measurement conversions

  • taxes

  • balancing a budget

  • order of operations

  • multiplying, adding, subtracting, dividing decimals

  • multiplying, adding, subtracting, dividing fractions

  • fractions models

  • classifying shapes

  • rounding/estimation

  • additive and multiplicative relationships

  • graphing on a coordinate plane

  • place value

  • long multiplication and division

  • area, volume, perimeter

  • dot plots, bar graphs, stem and leaf plots, scatter plots

Click Here- Porter Teacher Website



Science/Social Studies

Ms. Dausy

Ms. Dausy's Website

March 21st - April 21st

Science: Life Science

  • We will learning about how organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with living and nonliving components.

  • We will be discussing how the flow of energy within a food web, including the roles of the Sun, producers, consumers and decomposers.

  • We will be learning about the effects of changes in ecosystems caused by living organisms.

  • We will be comparing the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive in their individual environment.

  • We will be reviewing the differences between inherited traits and learned behaviors.

Life Science Test: April 21st

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April 18th - April 22nd

Social Studies: Unit 12 - Cold War

  • We will be learning about the causes of the Cold War, why the United States entered the war, and how it affected people in the United States.

Unit 12 Edpuzzle: April 22nd

Students may use their notes in their S.S. journal on the Edpuzzle test.