Language Arts
We completed our 3rd unit with a great assessment and jumped right into our 4th unit: Survival. We read a realistic fiction story: The Island of the Blue Dolphins. Realistic fiction:
- The characters behave as people or animals do in real life.
- The setting of the story is a real place or could be a real place.
- The events in the story could happen in real life.
Our objectives for this week were to:
- use comparative and superlative adjectives (Jack is as tall as Luke.)
- write a personal narrative
- form regular plurals (-s or -es)
- forming the cursive letters F and T
Math
Eating some pie and making Pi cities!
Using bean bags tossing to round decimals!
Using steps to round decimals to the nearest hundredth.
St. Paddy’s day math was challenging but we persevered!
This week we continued comparing decimals and began rounding decimals. Our objectives were:
- compare and order decimals
- complete number patterns
- round decimals to the nearest whole number or tenth
We also celebrated Pi Day since we are working with decimals!
History and Geography
Trying some African Foods while we finish up our Pi cities!
Mmmm Boullie Pap and Millet!
This week we finished up our chapter on Medieval African Kingdoms. Our objectives were:
- try different foods from the western region of Africa and watch videos that show the landscape of Africa
- review for the chapter test by playing Jeopardy
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Medieval African kingdoms on the chapter test
We had a great African Kingdoms celebration on Tuesday it was so much fun!
Science
This week maestra Paola had a chance to conference with each student in class. It was a great opportunity to assess understanding of the concepts seen this term and find out how they are planning to apply this into their research projects. Every student was prepared (topic selected) and had a plan for their project and presentation. Presentations will be the week of March 28 – 31. Each students will have an average of 4 minutes for their presentations. They are welcome to use any resource we have a school. I know some of them are incorporating technology (PowerPoint presentations) and others are planning to bring models and posters. They can get as creative as they feel!
We also spent time working on our final assessment of this module. During this assessment, students are allowed to use their notes, look at their books and collaborate in groups to solve the questions. We are only working on a couple of questions a day. We are planning to be finished with this assessment next week.