3/4 Week 5

by | Oct 5, 2018 | In The Loop

Pencils & Reading

We have been very impressed with the responsibility shown by everyone!  We will have a pencil ‘check-in’ on Thursday, October 11th.  Students will be issued a new pencil, if needed.  We are keeping track though and the top 5 students who keep their pencil for the longest time are in for some huge bragging rights and a special prize.

We also had our first 5 students start climbing our reading mountain. Ask your child what this means but there is a BIG prize at the end of every month for the students who make it to the top of the mountain by reading 12 hours in the month. (We keep track with the minutes you sign in their journal each week. Students go up a level after every 3 hours read.)

History & Geography

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • Understand the changes that occurred in Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
  • Understand the term Dark Ages.
  • Identify Rome as the location of the pope and the center of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Identify the pope as the bishop of Rome.
  • Understand that the Roman Catholic Church split in 1054.
  • Identify St. Benedict of Nursia as the author of the Rule of St. Benedict.
  • Describe life in a monastery.
  • Understand ways monasteries affected life in Europe during the Middle Ages.

This week we went on a field trip to the Ape Caves and Lava Canyon!  We learned that the bats at the Ape Caves had a disease called White Nose Syndrome.  We also did two hikes.  It was a great field trip.

By: Marisol

Mathematics w/Laura

Whole Number Multiplication and Division

  • Multiplying by a one digit number
  • Multiplying by a two digit number
  • Dividing by a one digit number (day 1)

We practiced (and quizzed each other using) multiplication and division flash cards.  More practice at home, please!

HOMEWORK ALERT:  Our next homework assignment is due Thursday, October 11th, as there is no school on Friday, October 12th.

Puzzles available for extra credit and Friday (Math) Bingo

Remember:  MATH …. It’s everywhere!

 

partner reading

La lectura

This week we completed our Sarah, sencilla y alta story. This historical fictions piece is full of realistic dialogue and winning characters to help the readers identify with the compelling story.  Jacob Witting, the widowed father of Ana and Caleb, places an advertisement in a newspaper fora  wife.  Sarah Wheaton answers the advertisement. Through letters that travel across the continent from the shores of Maine to the western prairie, Sarah and the Witting family get to know each other. Finally, she agrees to travel west to see if she would like to live there.

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • Explore the key concepts of: our need for human relationships cause us to take risks.
  • Identify author’s point of view
  • Identify and use personal pronouns
  • Identify and use topic sentences (states the main idea of a paragraph and is usually stated at the beginning of a paragraph)
  • Use the comprehension strategy: summarize the story as we read.
  • Explore the structure of words, identify prefixes, suffixes and roots.
  • Begin writing their autobiography using all their pre-writing notes to help them stay on topic and to write in a chronological order.
  • Cursive practice of letters R and S.

 

Ciencias

This was a very special week for us.  Our class field trip to Mount Saint Helens was a great addition to our study of Soils, Rocks, and Landforms.  In a few weeks we will be doing a case study of Mount Saint Helens.

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • Explore physical changes in the earth’s surface.
  • Identify changes that take place over a long period of time.
  • Identify changes that happened rapidly.
  • Identify sources of physical and chemical erosion while out in the ‘field’
  • Complete our study of chemical weathering.

 

Specialists:

ART with Ms. Kelly

I hope you’ve enjoyed the students’ beautiful Backpack Drawings on the bulletin board. They did a great job making line drawings that created the illusion of actual 3-dimensional backpacks. Then they added tissue paper to create a fabric texture. The students also learned how to make Texture Rubbings and how to use them in a Mountain Landscape picture. I will probably save these pictures for the students to use later in the year. This month we’re going to learn about Medieval Illuminated Letters and the students will use their own initial as part of an Illuminated Letter Design.