Curriculum

Math - In math we will continue to practice measuring angles using a protractor. We will also look at how angles relate to circles and how to find the measure of adjacent angles. Invite your child to share with you all that they have learned about angles!

Over the next 3 weeks students will be filling out their financial literacy ledger to keep track of  their classroom "expenses." They are given a weekly balance of $300 and update their expenses each Monday through Wednesday. This activity is helping the students to understand a budget as well as the difference between fixed and variable expenses. 💰

Math Homework :

(Due Thursday 3/28 evening before going to bed)

• IXL Lesson: GGD (Add and subtract mixed customary units)

• 2 green lights on Reflex

Science - This week in Science, the students will be focusing on Patterns on Earth.  They will learn why we have different seasons based on the tilt of the Earth.  The will understand the difference between direct sunlight seasons and non-direct sunlight seasons.  We will also learn why the length of shadows change based on the position of the sun.  Ask your child to share one thing that they learned about how the sun effects our patterns on Earth.

Reading: 

This week we'll be working with paired passages. Students will make comparissons between the texts and analyze text to determine the author's purpose, character traits, key ideas, word meaning and more.  Students will locate their evidence in the text that confirms their answer choice and discuss it with their classmates in a variety of collaboration activities. Digging into each other's perspectives and interpretation of questions to the text helps students in confirming their thinking as well as growing or clarifying misconceptions. 

At home: Have students look for connections between two topics/ideas in the book that they are reading. It can be comparing/ contrasting between literary elements (Plot, character, setting, events) We talked about Point of View last week. So, a great way to follow up at home is to look at how they know the point of view and what perspective does the narrator provide. How would the story change if the POV changed? ***Please make sure your student is reading their assigned pages in their book club book and bringing it to school daily.**

Writing:  The students will work on writing Short Constructed Responses and Extended Constructed Responses to text with paired passages. Some students have written Limericks as a choice in writing this month. They follow a pattern of AABBA. They are having a great time sharing them.We will continue to write weekly about what we read in class.

Social Studies:  We'll begin our Unit 7 on the 20th Century. During this unit, students study about the development of the oil industry in Texas and the economic conditions of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. Students also study about the impact of the Second World War in Texas, especially examining the economic impact and the impact on urbanization of Texas. Our focus this week is the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.  Students will identify and write about 3 cause and effect relationships from this week's newspaper. We'll write a summary of what life was like for certain individulas adn their families during the Great Depression. 

Ask your student: How does a lack of basic resources impact members of a community? How can it impact well-being? Make connections between this question and the events of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. *Share with your student something you have done in YOUR life that took great courage. How did it impact you?