February 25- March 1

Happy Monday!

Due to the snow days last week, our week ahead is some the same as last week.

In Math, we will work on 2-Dimensional figures, lines, segments, and rays, angles, and triangles and quadrilaterals.  Again, this is our Geometry unit.  We will also complete some foldables to help the students in remembering some of the terms.

In Science this week, we will continue our work on the food chain with some activities.  If our week goes as planned (meaning no more snow days, which Tuesday seems to be a likely chance), we will have a quiz on Thursday over food chains.  By Friday, we will move on to chapter 5, again discussing animals eating habits.

In Reading this week, we will focus on Main Idea.  To do this, we will make a flipbook on Monday, reminding students how to look for Main Idea.  We will then read an informational text and discuss the Main Idea, and review of Author's Purpose.  Students will have another activity to enhance their knowledge in looking for Main Idea called "Main Idea Pockets".  (All of these activities will be glued into their Reader's Notebooks.)  Students will have several small books and articles to review and practice finding the Main Idea.  On Friday, we will take the opportunity to participate in "Read Across the Country" day.  This activity is part of our AR program.  The goal of this day is to read, and take and pass as many quizzes as the students can.  We will be spending all afternoon working towards this goal.  The students are working towards surpassing last year's total number of quizzes taken across America.  We will try to hold off on quizzes until Friday to help with this goal.

In English language Arts, students will continue work on their Presidential Presentations.  We are using the researched information to put together a collaborative slide show on Google Presentations.  Each student should have a task that they are responsible for completing.  All students can access Google Presentation and work on the presentation simultaneously.  Students can log in from anywhere!  Just go to Google, and the students can log in using the information that was given to them.  But as a reminder, their log in is their first initial, last name, and the number 21, all with no spaces.  For example, mine would be "akountz21".  All of their passwords are the same.  They are all "akountz4".  That remains the same and the students do NOT use their names in the password.  Let me know if you have any questions about this presentation.