Week 23

What we are learning this week.....

Language Arts

Reading is Thinking

We will review nonfiction elements.

Writing

We will begin exploring imaginative stories.

Social Studies

We will talk about the supply and demand I economics.

Math/Science

Math

We are going to review the names and attributes of two dimensional shapes as well as the terms:  parallelogram, polygon, and irregular shapes.  Then we will move into the names and attributes of three dimensional objects.  We will also discuss which 2d shaped are used to make the 3d object.

Science

We will finish soil and moved into natural resources:  renewable, non renewable, and inexhaustible.

Reminders: 

Progress reports and graded papers go home Thursday, book orders are due Friday.

Here are some pics from our awesome float party last Friday, the 14th.

Week 22

What we are learning this week.....

Language Arts

Reading is Thinking

We will continue media literacy.

Writing

We will continue with procedural writing.

Social Studies

We will talk about Abraham Lincoln.

Math/Science

Math

We are showing the students how to calculate missing sides in perimeter by explaining that it's just like a word problem that is missing information.  They take the end and have to work backwards to find one of the side numbers.  Before we gave them all the sides to add together.  We are also teaching them when to identity multiplication instead of repeated addition with figures whose sides are equal.  Also, with rectangles, opposite sides are equal.

We are also going to mix area with perimeter so that they can quickly go back and forth between the two and not mix up the terms/processes.

Science

Now that we've discussed weathering and erosion, we will learn how soil is made and its many types/composites.

Week 21

What we are learning this week.....

Language Arts

Reading is Thinking

We will learn media literacy.

Writing

We will continue with procedural writing.

Social Studies

We will talk about Abraham Lincoln.

Math/Science

Math

We will now learn how to calculate are by counting square tiles, including halves.  We will show them how to identity arrays in order to help them understand l x w in 4th grade.

Science

We will discuss how volcanoes, earthquakes, floods (land slides), and other rapid changes shape the land.