What we're learning:

These are the general topics that we will be covering this week.

• Unit 6- Cultures and Histories: Native Americans which explores the deep connections to the lands where they have lived and the impacts of 1800s U.S. government policies and settlers on their cultures.

• Students read stories from specific tribes to better understand how these stories communicate values and a shared history across generations of tribal members. In "We're Still Here," students learn about modern Native American efforts to preserve languages, lands, and traditions.

What we're doing:

These are some of the assignments of which you should be aware this week..

• Demonstrate understanding of key vocabulary.

• Read, analyze, and explain ideas in text to deepen comprehension. 

• Make inferences and cite evidence from informative text.

• Compare and contrast themes in narrative texts.

• Analyze how illustrations contribute to the meaning and tone of a story.

• Explain the function of coordinating conjunctions.

• Identify past, present, and future perfect verb tenses.

• Distinguish between root words and words with prefixes or suffixes in sentences.

• Use a graphic organizer to analyze the structure of an opinion essay.

• Focus on collecting relevant information to write an opinion essay.

 Keeping the End in Mind:

At LCA, we're always thinking about how our lessons lead to human flourishing.  For each lesson, we have Big Ideas and Essential Questions in mind.

• Use evidence from an outline to develop introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs with relevant vocabulary

• Plan for revisions to students’ drafts using peer feedback

• Edit several developed paragraphs using peer and teacher feedback as well as students’ knowledge of English language conventions

What we're learning:

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• Courage

What we're doing:

These are some of the assignments of which you should be aware this week.

• We will be discussing what courage looks like at LCA and in our community.

 Keeping the End in Mind:

At LCA, we're always thinking about how our lessons lead to human flourishing.  For each lesson, we have Big Ideas and Essential Questions in mind.

• How can I demonstrate courage at school and the surrounding community?

What we're learning:

These are the general topics that we will be covering this week.

• Cultures and Histories: Native Americans- Explores  deep connections to the lands where they have lived and the impacts of 1800s U.S. government policies and settlers on their cultures.

What we're doing:

These are some of the assignments of which you should be aware this week.

• Explore Native American Tribes, storytelling, and conflicts.

• Vocabulary - notes will be taken in class on vocabulary

 Keeping the End in Mind:

At LCA, we're always thinking about how our lessons lead to human flourishing.  For each lesson, we have Big Ideas and Essential Questions in mind.

• What can I learn from Native American Tribes?

What we're learning:

These are the general topics that we will be covering this week.

• Lower- and upper-case cursive letters 

What we're doing:

These are some of the assignments of which you should be aware this week.

• We will be practicing writing Proverbs in cursive.

 Keeping the End in Mind:

At LCA, we're always thinking about how our lessons lead to human flourishing.  For each lesson, we have Big Ideas and Essential Questions in mind.

• Making my writing legible 

What we're learning:

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• Writing tenths and hundredths as decimal numbers. 

•  Naming decimal numbers with up to three decimal places. 

• Multiplying mixed fractions

• Eponents and square roots

What we're doing:

These are some of the assignments of which you should be aware this week.

• We will continue turning fractions to decimals using tenths and hundredths.

• We will be working with exponents and square roots.

 Keeping the End in Mind:

At LCA, we're always thinking about how our lessons lead to human flourishing.  For each lesson, we have Big Ideas and Essential Questions in mind.

• Do I know how to turn fractions into decimals in the tenths and hundredths?

What we're learning:

These are the general topics that we will be covering this week.

• photosynthesis

• energy relationships

What we're doing:

These are some of the assignments of which you should be aware this week.

• We will continue taking notes and learning new vocabulary.

 Keeping the End in Mind:

At LCA, we're always thinking about how our lessons lead to human flourishing.  For each lesson, we have Big Ideas and Essential Questions in mind.

• Can I explain how we get energy from the sun?

What we're learning:

These are the general topics that we will be covering this week.

• Identify natural and inverted word order

• Classify introductory sentences

What we're doing:

These are some of the assignments of which you should be aware this week.

• Review Chapter 7, Lesson 2

• Chapter 7, Lesson 3

• Chapter 7, Lesson 4

• Chapter 7, Checkup

 Keeping the End in Mind:

At LCA, we're always thinking about how our lessons lead to human flourishing.  For each lesson, we have Big Ideas and Essential Questions in mind.

• Are my sentences structured clearly and correctly for others to understand?