Weekly Reminders!

1. We have spirit week this week!

2. Thursday- Risk Watch Presentation in our classroom

3. Friday- Field Trip to Feed My Starving Children in the morning and in the afternoon, we meet w/ our 7th grade buddies in the afternoon.

4. Reading and Spelling Test on Friday!

​5. Math test is on Thursday!

 

Spelling Words:

​transplant, consult, finance, content, minute, digest, upset, research, incline, construct

bonus words-- entrances, manifest, invalid

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Vocabulary words: destroyed, opportunity, sustainability, reclaimed, constructed-

Unit vocabulary words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar

High Frequency Words: equation, among

Reading: Unit 4 Week 4- How can a leader’s experiences inspire change?

Learning Goals:

• I can learn about themes concerning events by distinguishing viewpoints in narrative nonfiction.
• I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
• I can use elements of opinion writing to write an opinion essay.

Objectives:

• Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
• Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
• Know that information, critical information, scientific problem solving, and the contributions of scientists are used in making decisions.
• Explore timelines
• Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text. 
• Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in text. 
• Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence and cause and effect. 
• Introduce a topic or text, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
• Use linking words and phrases to connect opinion and reasons.
• Provide a concluding statement or section. 

 

Math: Finish Chapter 10 Fractions

Objectives/ Mathematical Practices:

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Model with mathematics.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.

Vocabulary: denominator, equivalent fractions, numerator, is equal to (=), is greater than, is less than, 

Monday- Lesson 8- Compare fractions- Students will use models to compare 2 fractions and record the results. 

Tuesday- Lesson 9- Review fractions chapter to prepare for Thursday’s assessment

Wednesday- Chapter 10 Preparations for fraction assessment- Stations and Kahoot!

Thursday- Chapter 10 Assessment for fractions

(Weekly practice on iReady, Prodigy and IXL)

 

Science: Chapter 4 Assessment (In class Project)

1. Students will be researching an animal of their choice. (This will include the animals life cycle, descriptions, etc)

2. Detailed assignment sheet will be given in class.

3. Students will be able to identify an animal of their choosing and research them based on their appearance, diet, life cycle and location.

 

Social Studies: Continuing Lesson 5- Settling in the USA

Questions to answer in this lesson:

• Why do immigrants come to the states?
• How immigrants came to the USA?
• Where did immigrants settle in the US?
• What was life like for immigrants in the US?
• How to become a US citizen-

Video: How do history and culture shape your community?

Essential Question--How do people become part of our country?Overview: Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.

Objectives:Social Studies

• Analyze why and how people immigrate to the United States.
• Compare benefits and drawbacks of immigrating to the United States.
• Draw conclusions from primary and secondary sources.

Language Arts

• Identify main ideas in text. (reading)
• Describe and illustrate an idea. (writing)

Preview-Think about how it feels to move to a new place and then listen to audio clips from immigrants about their experiences. 

Hands-On Activity: Analyzing Primary Sources-Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.

Show What You Know- Compare opportunities and challenges of immigration. 

Also: Students will present March Book Reports: Study of Ireland

 

Writing:

1. Start discussions of Biographies.

2. What do they entail? How do you identify what a biography is?

​3. Students eventually will be writing their own biographies.

4. Historical Fiction writing is finished. 

 

Religion: Celebrating Reconciliation Session 17 Unit 4 (Sacraments)

When we turn away from God the Father through personal sin, Jesus the Son calls us to forgiveness in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. God always forgives us and gives us the grace to be truly sorry for our sins. In this sacrament, we confess our sins to a priest, who shares with us Jesus’ gifts of forgiveness and peace.

Session Theme: When we sin and fail to love God the Father and others, Jesus the Son calls us to forgiveness through the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.