Important Announcements
~ We have chapel on Tuesday this week. Students should be here at 7:45 to prepare for their vestry roles. The Readers will not have jobs this week because a class is presenting the chapel.
~ We have current events on Thursday, but I am raising the expectations for current events from now on. I will be giving each student the following sheet, Current Event Write-Up. From now on, students will be required to complete this page on their current event. Too often it seems students have not even read the article, just found an interesting headline. I will be providing hard copies to the class tomorrow, but you may print it if you would like.
~ I am dividing the 50 states and capitals quiz into two sections. This week, students will be responsible for writing the correct capital next to the state in list form. Next week, students will have to place each state on a map. After we finish the states, we will be moving onto the world! Yay!
Math
In math, we will continue on Unit 8 working with fractions and mixed numbers. We will learn about finding a fraction of a fraction, as well as multiplying fractions and whole numbers. The upcoming units are tough, so we've really been encouraging students to be focused and hard-working. We will be taking our Unit 8 assessment next Thursday and Friday. I will have a review tutorial on Wednesday.
Reading
This week in reading we will be focusing on improving the quality of our notes. Taking good notes is one of the keys to a good book club. We will be reviewing all we already learned about note taking and thinking how we can make our notes specific to historical fiction. All students are responsible for bringing in what they consider to be their best jot. We will be examining them to see what makes them the "best". This should help us to improve all of our notes.
Writing
We are finally beginning to draft this week! We had a wonderful visit from author Carmen Agra Deedy today. She talked all about what it really takes to write historical fiction. She told us that, for one book, she might spend up to two years doing nothing but research!! That puts the two weeks we've been doing research into perspective. This week we will be using the knowledge we already know about drafting a story and learning how to apply that to a historical fiction story.
Social Studies
We are continuing to study the Constitution. This week we will be looking at the system of checks and balances and the Bill of Rights.
Homework
~ Reading Comp: "How Some Native Americans Believe Man Was Made"
~ Math: POW
~ Writing: Work on Historical Fiction
~ States and Capitals Quiz (See "Important Announcements")
~ Current event and write-up (See "Important Announcements")
~ We have chapel on Tuesday this week. Students should be here at 7:45 to prepare for their vestry roles. The Readers will not have jobs this week because a class is presenting the chapel.
~ We have current events on Thursday, but I am raising the expectations for current events from now on. I will be giving each student the following sheet, Current Event Write-Up. From now on, students will be required to complete this page on their current event. Too often it seems students have not even read the article, just found an interesting headline. I will be providing hard copies to the class tomorrow, but you may print it if you would like.
~ I am dividing the 50 states and capitals quiz into two sections. This week, students will be responsible for writing the correct capital next to the state in list form. Next week, students will have to place each state on a map. After we finish the states, we will be moving onto the world! Yay!
Math
In math, we will continue on Unit 8 working with fractions and mixed numbers. We will learn about finding a fraction of a fraction, as well as multiplying fractions and whole numbers. The upcoming units are tough, so we've really been encouraging students to be focused and hard-working. We will be taking our Unit 8 assessment next Thursday and Friday. I will have a review tutorial on Wednesday.
Reading
This week in reading we will be focusing on improving the quality of our notes. Taking good notes is one of the keys to a good book club. We will be reviewing all we already learned about note taking and thinking how we can make our notes specific to historical fiction. All students are responsible for bringing in what they consider to be their best jot. We will be examining them to see what makes them the "best". This should help us to improve all of our notes.
Writing
We are finally beginning to draft this week! We had a wonderful visit from author Carmen Agra Deedy today. She talked all about what it really takes to write historical fiction. She told us that, for one book, she might spend up to two years doing nothing but research!! That puts the two weeks we've been doing research into perspective. This week we will be using the knowledge we already know about drafting a story and learning how to apply that to a historical fiction story.
Social Studies
We are continuing to study the Constitution. This week we will be looking at the system of checks and balances and the Bill of Rights.
Homework
~ Reading Comp: "How Some Native Americans Believe Man Was Made"
~ Math: POW
~ Writing: Work on Historical Fiction
~ States and Capitals Quiz (See "Important Announcements")
~ Current event and write-up (See "Important Announcements")