Thank you Veterans near and far. With a special thank you to our very own SWS Veterans.
Congrats to our students who climbed the reading mountain last month and read more than 12 hours! We celebrated with a movie and snacks during lunch and recess.
History & Geography
Our weekly objectives were to:
- Identify Eleanor of Aquitaine as an important ruler of France and England.
- Explain why Henry II and Eleanor were such a powerful couple.
- Recognize the major events in Eleanor´s life.
- Describe some of the problems of King John´s rule.
- Identify the Magna Carta and explain the significance of the document.
- Describe the origins of Parliament.
- Identify the House of Commons and the House of Lords as the two houses of Parliament.
- Identify the circumstances and cause of the Hundred Years´ War.
Mathematics w/Laura
- Mean, median, mode, range
- Stem and leaf plots
- Outcomes & probability as a fraction
- Probability activities
- Real world problems: data and probability
- Assessment on Thursday, November 15th
La lectura
This week we read Dédalo e Ícaro. Our objectives this week were:
- To understand there is a difference between risk-taking and thrill-seeking
- A lack of judgment can lead to tragic consequences.
- We cannot always keep others from making poor choices.
- Making inferences in our writing.
- To be more aware of our subject verb agreement in our speaking and writing.
This concludes our first unit of study. Next week we will practice our test taking skills and be assessed on this first unit.
Students also received a new reader on Friday. This reader goes nicely with Veteran’s Day. Family time is just one of many sacrifices we can give thanks for.
Ciencias
Focus Question: Where are erosion and deposition happening in our schoolyard.
Students considered whether erosion and deposition are happening in their own schoolyard. We looked for evidence of erosion and for locations where deposition is in evidence.
We observed:
- Erosion is the transport (movement) of weathered rock material (sediments) by moving water or wind.
- Deposition is the settling of sediments when the speed of moving water or wind declines.
The science reader will be completed with a class discussion on Tuesday 11/13. There will be no quiz. Their subject/predicate HW from this book is also due on 11/13, as well as their bonus topic sentences.