January 22-25

What a great long weekend!

Here is a look at what we will be studying this week.

In Math, we will begin Tuesday with learning to compute the mean and average.  On Wednesday, we will be preparing for a test that will be on Thursday.  On Friday, we will begin order of operations.

This week in Science, we will have a chapter review over chapter 3 on Friday.

Reading and English Language Arts go hand in hand this week.  We will be using this week as an opportunity to study Martin Luther King, Jr.  In Reading, we will use Langston Hughes' speech "Dream"  and King's "I Have a Dream" speech to look at word connotations, or how one word can mean many different things.  We will then use the "I Have a Dream Speech" in Writing to work with paraphrasing another writer's words.  In Reading, we will jump into another story called, Happy Birthday, Dr. King that can be found in our reading book.  Using that story, we will study cause and effect.  On Thursday, students will look at summarizing as a review using the story, Martin's Big Words.  To do this, students will use a strategy called "Sum it up" where each word costs $0.10 and they can only spend $2.00 on their summary.  We will then read the book, A Taste of Colored Water reviewing word connotation. The story is about children from the south in the 1960's who misunderstand the meaning of "Colored Water".

We will continue with RTI this week, still covering Author's Purpose.

We will be taking the NWEA computerized tests this week from 1:55-2:55 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  I know this is a time of year that sickness is prevalent, but your student being present during these testing days is helpful.