Math- QUIZ TUESDAY On Monday students will take their mid-year STAR assessment in math. These assessments help us to see if students are progressing at grade level through the year's content, and who might need some additional support. Results of this assessment will be sent home with term 2 report cards in March, but feel free to contact me with questions before that if you have any. On Tuesday students will take the chapter 5 quiz. This quiz covers most of the chapter and includes lessons 1-5. These lessons focus entirely on absolute value, positive/negative opposites, changing fractions to decimals using division, and comparing and ordering integers. It is a longer quiz than usual, and is a great study tool for their test next week. A practice quiz will be done in class on Monday and can be found in binders. On the remaining days this week, we will finish the last two lessons of the chapter, which focus on graphing ordered pairs in all 4 quadrants of the coordinate plane. Science- QUIZ WEDNESDAY This week we will be wrapping up chapter 4, lesson 4 which is about fossils! This lesson focuses on 5 ways fossils are formed: mineralization, carbonization, casts & molds, trace, and original material. Students should be able to explain the difference between each type, and give an example. Additionally, this lesson talks about the differences between absolute age dating vs. relative age dating, and the geologic time scale. A study guide will be provided on Monday so students can review at home. Please see math/science links for a copy of this study guide. English Language Arts, Reading and History Writing: We will be finishing our persuasive writing in Google Classroom Grammar: Continues our work with appositives on how to improve writing. Reading:Students did very well on STAR testing as we round the corner into DIBELS testing for some students. We finished Lightning Thief earlier in January and will be seeing some sections for clarifications as we prepare an compare and contrast response. History Have you been impressed with the Presidents recitation? It's a great way to demonstrate how to accomplish a difficult task by breaking it down into manageable steps. The oral test should be done by the end of the week. We will be demonstrating the steps of Egyptian mummification. In this project, students will be in charge of performing the sequence in small groups. This has been a lesson in sequencing and summarizing as well as learning the gruesome job of getting ready for the Underworld. The Mummification Ritual will be on Thursday or next Tuesday after much practice in class. Following the performance, students will get a study guide and take a test on the sequence next week. Comments are closed.
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