Welcome back! I hope that you had a great Spring Break, and that our students are coming back to school rejuvenated and ready to take on the last few weeks of the year! Can you believe it?
What we are learning:
ELA
This week in Readings students will begin Module 4 Unit 2: Developing an Opinion: The Importance of Water Conservation. Students will begin this unit by building background knowledge on challenges related to water around the world. They will also be reading informational texts to examine the author’s point of view this week. During this unit, they will develop their own opinion on a water-related issue important to them, write an opinion essay, and present a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on their issue.
Vocabulary: demand, pollution, access, take for granted, sprout, provide, energy, basic, reducing, ensure, point of view, power, scorched, starve, electricity, produce, pump, droughts, irrigated, famine
Math
Students continue to compare fractions this week, with an emphasis on fractions with a common numerator or common denominator, reasoning about their size. (Example: ¾ > ¼ or ⅔ > 2/4)
Students will take a comparing fractions test on Friday.
Vocabulary: compare, numerator, denominator, greater than, less than, equal to, fraction, equal parts, whole, partition, equivalence, number line, identify, area model, number line, reasoning
Social Studies
We have been learning about important figures to North Carolina’s history, including colonization, the Civil Rights movement, and the Women’s Suffrage movement. This week students will create a Chatterpix (iPad application where students draw a person’s head and make him or her talk) to represent an important historical figure. They will include research they conducted on this historical figure over the week in their Chatterpix creation.
Vocabulary: events, individuals, culture, influence, contribution, regional, communities, development, perspectives
Have a fantastic week!
What we are learning:
ELA
This week in Readings students will begin Module 4 Unit 2: Developing an Opinion: The Importance of Water Conservation. Students will begin this unit by building background knowledge on challenges related to water around the world. They will also be reading informational texts to examine the author’s point of view this week. During this unit, they will develop their own opinion on a water-related issue important to them, write an opinion essay, and present a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on their issue.
Vocabulary: demand, pollution, access, take for granted, sprout, provide, energy, basic, reducing, ensure, point of view, power, scorched, starve, electricity, produce, pump, droughts, irrigated, famine
Math
Students continue to compare fractions this week, with an emphasis on fractions with a common numerator or common denominator, reasoning about their size. (Example: ¾ > ¼ or ⅔ > 2/4)
Students will take a comparing fractions test on Friday.
Vocabulary: compare, numerator, denominator, greater than, less than, equal to, fraction, equal parts, whole, partition, equivalence, number line, identify, area model, number line, reasoning
Social Studies
We have been learning about important figures to North Carolina’s history, including colonization, the Civil Rights movement, and the Women’s Suffrage movement. This week students will create a Chatterpix (iPad application where students draw a person’s head and make him or her talk) to represent an important historical figure. They will include research they conducted on this historical figure over the week in their Chatterpix creation.
Vocabulary: events, individuals, culture, influence, contribution, regional, communities, development, perspectives
Have a fantastic week!