.Math- TEST THURSDAY
We are almost there! This week will feel like the longest, shortest, and craziest all in one! Due to snow days and delays, we are keeping it business as usual and going strong all week! Monday we finish the last lesson of chapter 1, and use rates and ratios to solve real world scenarios. Tuesday and Wednesday will be spend reviewing for our upcoming test. A "scoot" game and two practice tests will have students ready to tackle ratios and rates on their test this Thursday. Extra credit is available online (directions can be found here) and will be need to be submitted by Friday at 9:00. Science- QUIZ FRIDAY Due to the short time between Thanksgiving and winter break, coupled with three days impacted by snow, our science time has been cut short! For this reason, this week's quiz will be open notes and open book. This week's content will focus on types of mountains (folded, uplifted, fault block, volcanic) and how continents are formed. The overarching theme is still plate tectonics and plate shifting. A study guide will go home on Wednesday, and the wrap up quiz will be Friday. It's a lot, but we can get there! English Language Arts, Reading and History Writing: Reading: History: We are creating plays about famous Egyptian pharaohs following the traditional story structure of setting Inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. The research is all done and just the fun part of deciding what part of a story to tell, what props are found or made and what signs to create. We will be filming the movies on Thursday. Reading slip is due on Wednesday and Typing for Accuracy #3 is due on Thursday. Math
Students will continue to learn about ratios and rates this week in math. On Monday we will spend time doing some problem solving and reviewing lessons 1-5. There will be a quiz Tuesday that focuses on the content covered in lessons 1-4 of Chapter 1. This includes greatest common factor, least common multiple, writing ratios in simplest form using pictures, creating unit rates by dividing, and using equivalent ratios to solve ratio tables. A practice quiz will be done in class Monday to prepare. For the rest of the week students will continue solving word problems involving rates and ratios. A chapter 1 test should be expected next Wednesday, 12/18. Optional online extra credit will be available beginning this Friday, 12/13, once all lessons are completed. Extra credit will be due by 12/19. Science Monday through Wednesday this week we will be reading, outlining, and studying Chapter 3, lesson 2. This lesson focuses on converging, diverging, and sliding tectonic plates, and what each forms. There will be an open book quiz on Thursday on this content as well as lesson 1. Students should reread the two lessons at home using the online textbook if possible. Yes, an open book quiz provides students easy access to answers, but they must still be familiar enough with the content to extract and understand them. Studying is still important! English Language Arts, Reading and History Writing: Our focus is to prepare our papers on Ancient Egypt for publication. Students have researched topics, organized information in a graphic organizer and written, revised and edited research papers. Although we began all of this in class, most students worked on this important assignment at home as well in Google classroom. Thanks for everyone's hard work! Grammar: We review the Trio of Villains of good writing: sentence fragments, run on sentences and comma splices. Students will be using this new knowledge in revising their research papers for Ancient Egypt. We'll begin a typing for accuracy , to improve typing skills, editing and understanding complex sentences. Reading:We continue in Massachusetts Book Groups for reading fluency and collaborative discussion. This week's reading selection focuses on finding the main idea of non-fiction writing in The Book of the Dead. History: Excitement for the Egyptian Museum mounts! My weekend email flurry shows a huge amount of work on these projects! So looking forward to seeing student creative work. I am asking for students to try to bring in a table cloth to help create the aisles of the museum, since we are not having the projects displayed on tables. In fact, not only do you not have to have a table, but I am realizing that you do not have to buy a trifold either, since the posters can be displayed flat on the tablecloth! 2/12 Egyptian Museum Exhibition Project and tablecloth are here at CHCS by 9:00 Students set up projects in gym on tablecloths at 12:15 Fifth grade begins walk through at 1:00 2:15 - 3:10 Parents invited to tour Museum 3:10 Exhibition breakdown. Students leave with projects, tablecloths, backpacks on buses or with parents Students will not be able to store projects here over the Christmas break. Better late than never!
English Language Arts, Reading and History This last week before the Egyptian Museum has been a big push to finishing research, organizing notes and writing our papers. On Wednesday, students started a "check in" with me to verify that they know the topic, know what kind of project they would like to do, are aware of what materials are necessary and have made some progress on this work. Know that in addition to working on the research and writing the paper, I have worked very hard to help students get ideas, find materials and assist in the project to allow this to be a great experience for everyone - including you exhausted parents during holiday season! Whatever does not get done in class, can be done at home as well. Some students acknowledge that working at home independently allows for a better finished product. Here is the basic timeline 12/4 Project progress check in 12/5 Research notes finished 12/9 Graphic organizer finished. Rough draft typed. 12/10 Final papers printed here at school 12/12 Egyptian Museum Exhibition Project and tablecloth are here at CHCS by 9:00 Students set up projects in gym on tablecloths at 12:15 Fifth grade begins walk through at 1:00 2:15 - 3:10 Parents invited to tour Museum 3:10 Exhibition breakdown. Students leave with projects, tablecloths, backpacks on buses or with parents Students will not be able to store projects here over the Christmas break. |