March 4-7

A little late...

Sorry this is late.  We had a few technical difficulties yesterday.  We have a short week this week due to our snow day on Monday.  

In Math, we will begin using a different resource.  Students will have copied pages rather than a book.  These pages include the lesson, and instruction, as well as problems that we worked on together in class.  These lessons are to be placed on their binders, and their binders are to go home any night that they have homework to be used as a resource.  Their lessons will consist of a page on the day's lesson, and the back page is a spiral review.  (Concepts that students have learned earlier in the year.)  Hopefully this change flows smoothly.  All of that being said, our lessons this week will cover area and perimeter, solving measurement problems, using mathematical practices (so a review of using measurement in daily life), and on Thursday we will have an area and perimeter quiz.  On Friday, we will begin fractions.  This can be a challenge for some students, but we will start off slowly, and hopefully students will learn fractions through their own discovery, making the learning process more meaningful.  

In Social Studies, we reviewed yesterday, and we have a test today, Wednesday.  On Thursday we will begin chapter 6 learning about our state's growth, slavery, and plantation life.  This topic is a tough one to hear about, but I love that the students quickly understand the mistakes of our nation's past.  We end the week learning about the Civil War, and its ties to Missouri being a border state.  

In Reading, we are working on a small group project continuing our lessons on sequencing with flashback.  We have three small groups that are reading a picture book that have flashbacks.  Students will create 7 or so event cards.  They will then read the book to the class, and the class will work together to place the cards in sequential order.

In Spelling, we received a new list.  For this unit, we will focus on silent letters, homophones, and /k/ sounds in words.  We will be ready for a test next week.

In English Language Arts, we will continue to work on fluency with writing.  Students will be writing from the point of view of different objects.  This usually leads to a pretty fun writing piece.