Language Arts- Mrs. Phelps
Last week, we began reading Because of Winn Dixie out loud in class and practiced all 6 of the literature circle jobs. This week, students will do the reading on their own and complete their assigned job sheet before Friday. This leaves no time for vocabulary quizzes on Fridays. Therefore, we will not have vocabulary quizzes until after we have finished our novel. I will still be teaching vocabulary, slightly more indirectly, but will absolutely still dedicate class time to all the rich vocabulary that comes from the text. We will also be spending a good amount of time on capitalization, comma usage, and punctuation.
Morphology: We are introducing the prefixes "de" meaning down or away. Examples: depart, defrost, decode.
Homework: Read p.40-66 of Because of Winn Dixie and complete job sheet for literature circle meeting on Friday!
Math-Mrs. Bennett
This week in Math class students we will continue to work with real-world situations that involve either fair share or measurement division. Student will run a donut shop and determine how many boxes are needed based on a certain number of donuts sold or how many donuts should go in each box. Students will also create a graph comparing the amount of donuts sold in the morning versus the afternoon. We will begin to also model division using arrays and bar models.
Fair Share-
Clyde places 27 baseball caps into 3 boxes. He places an equal number of baseball caps in each box.
How many baseball caps are in each box?
Measurement-
Mr. Kenmar has 28 peppers to sell. He packages the peppers into equal groups of 4. How can Mr. Kenmar find the number of packages he can make?
Homework:
1/29- SS #77
1/30- SS #78
1/31- SS #79
2/1- SS #80
2/2- SS Quiz
Social Studies- Mrs. Crush
In Social Studies, the students will continue their Presidents Project. This project will be completed in both Social Studies and Technology, along with Writing. Each student has been assigned a president, they will research, and learn about the president. When gathering research, the students will create a Google Slide and eventually present those during class. Also, the students will write an autobiography for their presidents using the information that they gathered. Similar to Christmas Around the World, the students will be dressing up as their presidents and sharing their story with students and parents. Date for this is TBD.
Religion- Mrs. Crush
Beginning of the week, we will learn about the life of Saint Thomas Aquinas. He is the patron saint of students and all Universities. We will then begin our Saints Madness project near the end of the week. Students will chose a saint to research. They have the opportunity to work in pairs or individually. This project will take several weeks and there will be due dates along the way. More information to come!
2nd Trimester Service Hours + Reflection due Wednesday, Feb. 14
Science- Ms. Jackel
