October 28-November 1

Math: Lesson 3-10 and study guide (Mon.), review (Tues.), test (Wed.), performance task (Thurs.), graphs (Fri.)

Social Studies: slavery brochure (Mon. and Tues.), causes of American Revolution (Wed-Fri.)

Science: measuring mass (Mon.), changes in matter (Tues.), review/study guide (Wed.), test (Thurs.), dry ice lab (Friday)

ELA: finish Yonder Mountain story and questions (Mon-Wed), begin Chief Joseph text and questions (Thurs. and Fri.)

Spelling: important, until, children, side, feet, giraffe, huge, stage, engine, badge, ginger, ocean, desert, tundra, equation, operation; pretest Wednesday, test on Friday

This Week

math: Subtracting 2-digit numbers, subtracting 3 digit numbers, subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers in word problems

social studies: Atlantic Slave Trade, Gullah

science: Heat and Matter, observable and measurable properties, forms of matter, Diamond Del, measuring mass lab

ELA: Hopi Poem, Yonder Mountain texts

Animal Project Photos

Here's a look at this week's animal project: Create an Adaptimal- an animal that can adapt to any habitat in the world.

Week of October 14-18

For this week:

 

math: Adding 3 digit numbers

social studies: South Carolina articles; summarize, compare and contrast

science: working on "adaptimal" performance task

ELA: read Trail of Tears poem

 

Check out what we've been doing!

Today, we began our animal project. Students are researching habitats and an animal's physcial and behavioral adaptations to create the perfect "adaptimal".

 

 

Here is our coloring flower activity. Students were asked to predict what would happen if food coloring was placed in a cup of water that held a white carnation.

October 7-11

This week we will:

math: complete study guide (Monday), review (Tuesday), test on Wednesday, performance task (Thursday), addition problems using expanded algorithms (Friday)

social studies: European groups who settled in SC (Monday), finish study guide (Tuesday), review (Wednesday), test on Thursday)  

science: Five Great Lakes Species article (Monday and Tuesday), African Dogs assessment (Wednesday and Thursday), introduce performance task (Friday)

ELA: Encounter text (Monday-Wednesday), Encounter test (Thursday and Friday) 

spelling: along, might, close, something, seem, laugh, rough, enough, graph, sphere, photograph, particle, atom, element, property, decimal   pretest on Wednesday, test on Friday