March 4-8

Hopefully we will finally have a full week of school!  Maybe we can get our lessons back on track.  Here is our week ahead.

In Science, we will start Monday with an open-book quiz on lesson 4 and the food chain.  I hope you all enjoyed the fun stories from our Owl Pellet lesson...  We we start lesson 5 by reading Tuesday, still discussing feeding patterns in the different ecosystems.  On Wednesday, we will complete an activity on forest foods.  On Thursday, we will look at taking the lesson 5 quiz.  (We have a field trip approaching in late March and we are trying to cover as much of the conservation unit as we can before then.  With all of our missing days, we are really trying to squeeze at this point!)

In Math, we will continue and finish our geometry unit this week.  On Monday, we will study triangles and quadrilaterals.  On Tuesday, we will look at a problem solving strategy.  (These assignments tend to make students think outside the box, and how to solve the problem is always noticed straight away.  Hopefully, we can encourage the students to take their time and think the problem through.)  On Wednesday, students will study parts of a circle.  We will complete the lesson practice on Thursday, and test over chapter 19 on Friday.

In Reading, we are finally getting to take a look at Main Idea.  We will use several informational texts to do this, as well as many foldable activities.  (All of these were posted on last week's Blog entry but we decided to finish what we had missed on drawing conclusions before moving on to Main Idea.  Sorry for the redundancies.)

In English Language Arts, students will continue to work on their Presidential Research presentations, and be ready to present by Thursday or Friday, depending on how well technology cooperates with us!  I am really impressed with the student's abilities on these presentations!  They are looking really great!

As a reminder, the quarter ends Friday.  (This year is really flying by!)  This will also be the last day for students to earn AR points.  The required number is 10, and most students have reached that already.  Friday will also be a half day for Inservice.