Week of 9/18

A glance at our coming week... 

ELA: 

-Poem- Two Limericks went home 9/7 to be presented 9/22 (see previous blog post) Alliteration, Repetition 

-Literature- Chapters 8-10 The Boxcar Children 
-Identify examples of Archway Virtues in the Boxcar Children 

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-New Idiom Focus- Practice what you preach and Where there's a will there's a way.

-Touchpebbles (Socratic discussions centered around text and reflection) 

-Grammar- 

Identifying the Subject Noun and the Verb in a sentence. Friday we will introduce adverbs.

• See previous post for an Amazing Shurley Grammar Resource for parents! 

4 Sentence Types (Interrogative (question), Imperative (command), Exclamatory (!), Declarative (.): An assessment on this material will be given Friday.

History

-Students will understand the importance of the Indus and Ganges Rivers for India and the mystery of the Indus River

-Students will recognize the effect the Aryans had on ancient India

-Students will identify Hinduism as an important world religion

-Students will understand the basic components of Hinduism including castes, reincarnation, and yoga. 

-Students will understand the importance and meaning of the Hindu holiday Diwali

Science 

-Students will understand a lever is a bar that rests on a fulcrum to lift or move objects 

-Students will understand a fulcrum is the point on which a lever turns or pivots   

-Students will find examples of wedges and levers in everyday life
-Simple Machines continued  

Math
-Renaming the tens and hundreds to subtract 
-Solving Word Problems 
-Rename hundreds to subtract within 1,000 
-Practice word problems and choose the correct operation
-Friday - Review and Monday 9/25 Review for Addition and Subtraction assessment Tues 9/26

For quarter one we will be attacking reading fluency . On Mondays you will be sent tools for your child's growth in specific areas.

• There will be a fluency passage 
•  There are "How to" directions listed on the form. These are due Thursday.

•  For marking errors: If your student stumbles but sounds it correctly on his/her own don't slash it. If he/she stumbles and voices incorrectly briefly then self corrects - slash it and write above it 'sc' for self corrects. If he/she stumbles and voices it incorrectly and you read it for him/her it is marked as incorrect. Count any sc as correct because he/she corrected the mistake.  

Please visit reading a-z see link below for resources/more information. They have a parents portal which I find very helpful! :) 

• https://www.readinga-z.com/