In March students will be reading their book club books, engaging in student-led discussions based on their reading, and continue learning about different literary devices in small groups. Students will develop their skills in academic discussions, reading comprehension, and writing while choosing which activities they want to use to develop these skills.

During March, we will be beginning unit 4, where we will be exploring division of fractions and decimals. We will develop techniques and equations to solve division problems. We will later use our skills to compute the area and volume of shapes with fractional measurements.

Students will be looking deeper at the laws of king Hammurabi and discussing the idea of justice. More specifically, students will analyze King Hammurabi's laws and debating whether these laws are just.

Immersion Social Studies

Students will identify how the physical setting contributed to the development of city-states in Mesopotamia.

Students will continue exploring the Unit: How Does My Body Work. They will be focusing on the Digestive System and the Excretory System. They will investigate how all the organs function together to digest food for energy and excrete out food that cannot be processed as waste.

Students will continue to work on organizational strategies as well as build math skills based on their IEP goals and objectives. Students will work on math skills relating to computation and solving word problems involving whole numbers and fraction. In the area of organization, students work on their organizational skills by using a checklist and Google Calendar. Students will also work on self-reflections and learn how do identify organization systems that are working for them.

Comprehension strategies will continue to be a work in progress - determining central idea/theme and identifying relevant textual evidence. Students will further their vocabulary skills by using strategies learned to determine meaning of unknown words and phrases - Figurative languages. Students will also continue to work on crafting an introduction using Hook-background information -thesis statement strategy towards writing multi-paragraph essay. They will continue to use strategies learned towards meeting their organization goal.

We will continue our discussion on community by reading and analysing Seedfolks, as well as discussing a series of fiction and non-fiction companion texts. Additionally, students will complete the unit by comparing how two authors develop a similar theme. We will then move into a writing unit, where students will have a chance to write a Letter of Recommedation after learning about organization, word choice, and figrative language. Lastly, we will beginning our Book Clubs. Students will have a chance to read 1 of 6 choice books with a small group.

We be concluding our exploration of ratios. Through January, we will begin our second math project where we will use our skills of ratios to modify recipes for different serving sizes. Along the way we will develop our skill of unit conversion to support converting cups to tablespoons or feet to miles. Lastly, we will focus on percents of values and sales in stores.

Student are starting to learn about how humans transitioned from being hunter gatherers to farmers. We will also be studying the rise of civilization and discuss the scientific basis for race.

Immersion Social Studies

Students will continue to study the rise of early humans. and wrap up the unit with a project to demonstrate understanding. After that, we will start to learn about how humans transitioned from being hunter gatherers to farmers-the rise of civilization.

January finds us working on two units. We begin the month by completing the Earth's Story Unit. We then move on to the How Does My Body Work Unit. In this unit, students explore the fascinating human machine--their own bodies and how they work. The investigation starts at the smallest scale, by uncovering the idea that all living things are made of cells via microscope observations. They look at the cell system--what do cells need and what are the parts of the cells that do the jobs needed to keep us alive.

Students will continue to work on organizational strategies as well as build math skills based on their IEP goals and objectives. Students will work on math skills relating to computation and solving word problems involving unit rates. In the area of organization, students will explore different organizational strategies such as using a checklist and Google Calendar. Students will also work on self-reflections and learn how to identify organization systems that are working for them.

Students will work on and use learned comprehension strategies - to determine a theme along with identifying textual evidence, understand and use literary devices, compare and contrast, and perspective to analyze characters in texts and to demonstrate deeper comprehension. Students will also work on organization skills and writing skills.

During the first week of November students will complete their first unit-end writing assignment in order to explore the counter narratives important to truly understanding our classroom community. We will then begin our first reading-based unit, studying the value of community by analyzing Seedfolks, select vignettes from The House on Mango Street and various non-fiction texts.

We will be concluding our exploration of the area and surface area of 2D and 3D shapes. During November, we will complete our Dream House Projects and begin our second project of the year, The Cereal Box Surface Area Project. Along with the fun of real-world projects, we will begin unit two, Introduction to Ratios. Throughout unit two, we will solve a wide variety of problems involving ratios and rates with shopping and baking recipes. The journey of fractions is presented once again and we will deepen our understanding of how to use multiplication and division to our advantage.

Students are starting to work on the Early humans unit. We will be learning about primary sources, secondary sources, and different species of early humans.

Immersion Social Studies

Students are starting a project to analyze conflicts that exist at various borders by conducting research and engaging in discussion in order to create a presentation proposing a solution to address the conflict.

Student will determine what the interior of the Earth looks like and how do they know.

Students are working on organizational strategies as well as building math skills to approach grade level math problems based on their IEP goals and objectives. Students are working on math skills relating to computation and solving word problems. Students are also learning how to apply different organizational strategies to help them access the curriculum.

Students are working on comprehension strategies, such as using context clues to determine unknown words and phrases. They are also making inferences to determine character traits while reading Seedfolks. Students will plan essays using graphic organizers to generate ideas; use C-E-R to compose a one-paragraph essay, and use a checklist to revise and edit writing assignments. Students will also work on organizational strategies.