Friday, March 3, 2017

What We're Working on This Week March 6-10

Language Arts: Writing

  • Opinion Writing
    • Using evidence to support opinions
  • Word Study: Suffixes, due Wednesday, March 8

Language Arts: Reading
  • Theme
  • Finish "Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life"/ "The Little Fly and the Great Big Moose"
  • "Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie" 
  • Readers' Theater: Forged by Fire (social studies connection) 


Math

  • Long Division
  • Story problems with division and what to do with remainders
  • Optional practice packet goes home Monday.
  • Quiz on Thursday - focus on story problems

Social Studies
  • Chapter 6, Building a New Nation: Writing the Constitution, 1781-1790
  • Important documents - Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, Virginia Declaration of Rights
  • George Washington, George Mason, Thomas Jefferson & James Madison
  • Westward Expansion
  • Test on Thursday or Friday
Science
  • Finishing up weather unit
  • Weather instruments
  • Review
  • Quiz next week (Week of March 13)