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May 13-17th

This week's Specials:

M: PE

T: Art

W: PE

TH: Art

Fri: PE

Reminders:

May 15th: 4-6th band performance
May 20th: Volunteer Appreciation
May 21st: End of Year Pool Party at the YMCA (2190 Jetwing) from 9 -12:30
May 23rd: Last day of school (half day)

Social Emotional Learning Targets:

I can communicate what respect means.
I can evaluate respect in a variety of situations.
I can practice effective communication skills.
I can define the characteristics of healthy relationships.

Reading Learning Targets (we will pause reading learning targets to focus on social studies and science):

I can reread to understand a text better.

I am prepared for discussions.

I can follow agreed-upon rules for discussions.

Homework:

Read for 20 minutes

Optional Extended Learning for Home:

Spelling/ Words Work Learning Targets:

I can spell words with closed syllables and inflectional endings.

I can decode plurals and words with different vowel sound-spellings.

I can consistently recognize the provided prefix and understand how it changes the meaning of its base word.

I can define unit vocabulary words.

I can use our unit vocabulary words in grammatically correct and meaningful sentences.

This week's vocabulary words:

unfairness, continued, daring, citizenship, horrified, proposed, waver, and participate

This week's spelling words:

names, hopes, dances, drops, wraps, named, hoped, danced, dropped, wrapped, naming, hoping, dancing, dropping, and wrapping

Challenge: driving and traded

Review: basketball, airplane, and birthday

Writing Learning Targets:

I can produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task.

With guidance and support from peers and adults, I can develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting, or trying a new approach.

I can write an extended response to an author's craft question.

I can use a writing checklist or rubric to assess my and my peer's writing.

I can use linking words and phrases (for example: because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinions and reasons.

I can write an extended response to answer author-craft questions, which include a topic sentence and text evidence.

I can identify and use subjects in sentences.

I can identify and accurately use different types of nouns (collective, plural/singular, irregular, possessive, proper/common).

I can write cause-and-effect compound sentences.

I can use capitalization and punctuation.

Math Learning Targets (for the rest of the school year):

Targets will vary depending on the student. Students will be asked to reflect on the target tables they have collected over the school year and choose unmastered targets to continue growth on.

Homework for May 6th:

daily math fact worksheet
work requested to help meet unmet targets

Science Learning Targets (for the rest of the school year):

I can use a beam balance model to investigate balanced forces.

I can determine the relative mass of an object using a beam balance.

I can define "force," and draw connections to the forces acting upon an object in motion and an object at rest.

I can explain how the pull of gravity can result in balanced forces.

I can use models to explain the law of inertia.

I can explain how forces are required to change the motion of objects.

I can identify the cause-and-effect relationship between forces and movement.

I can predict how different textures affect friction.

I can use a model to determine how the strength of a force affects an object's motion.

I can use a model to determine how an object's mass affects its ability to overcome inertia.

I can observe a magnetic force and investigate how its strength can be changed.

I can maintain a science notebook:

table of contents
numbered pages
titled observations/notes

I can make observations.

labeled drawing
hypothesis
written/drawn observations
title of observation on page and in table of contents

Social Studies Learning Targets

I can describe the difference between producers and consumers and explain how they need each other.

I can describe and give examples of forms of exchange. For example: monetary exchange and barter.

I can describe how the exchange of goods and services between businesses and consumers affects all parties.

I can recognize that different currencies exist and explain the functions of money. For example: medium of exchange, store of value, and measure of value.

I can cite evidence to show how trade benefits individuals, businesses, and communities and increases interdependency.

I can give examples of short-term spending and savings goals.

I can identify jobs that children can do to earn money to reach personal financial goals.

I can differentiate the role of income and expenses when creating a budget.

I can create a plan with specific steps to reach a short-term financial goal.

I can model strategies to achieve a personal financial goal using arithmetic operations.

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