Monday, February 13, 2017

Week of 2/13

Welcome Back!
I hope everyone enjoyed the extra, long weekend!

Reminders for the Week:
Read 25 mins. each night
Vocab. Quiz- Friday (same words as last week!)
Immigration Research- Friday ( In place of Mystery Research)
Pool- Thursday Feb. 16th
School Store- Friday
Valentine's Day- TOMORROW* 
       *Please bring one for everyone (if you choose to bring them)

Learning this Week: 
Writing: We will be finishing up our postcards that go along with our read aloud, Esperanza Rising. In addition, we will complete a small opinion writing piece. Students will get to pick between two topics: extra tax on soda, or rewards for perfect attendance. Finally, we will do some fun writing activities for Valentine's Day! 
Math: We will continue to do small group work with factors and multiples, but will be starting Topic 8 (Fractions) this week. Students will begin with fraction equivalence. 
ELA: Students will continue taking notes on the major topics of our unit. We will continue to look at different sources as well as discuss text structure. Students will be able to identify the different structures of an informational text as well as use text features to being their book about immigration. 
Sci/S.S: We will do some additional research on our mystery state from last week (Minnesota) as well as complete a science lab about weathering and erosion. 



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