POD 1 (Dausy, Porter, Wright)
ELAR
Mrs. Wright
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
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
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.