Looking Ahead Week of September 30

Looking Ahead

Week of September 30

ELA:  We will continue working with personal narratives in writing. We will work with prefixes and suffixes.  We will begin using narrative elements to help determine the theme in a text.  Our anchor text will be A Castle on Viola Street.

Math:  We will continue making connections between multiplication and division.  We will have a quiz on lessons 7-10 on Thursday.

Social Studies:  We will continue learning about specific facts about South Carolina's 6 regions.  

Science:  We will begin our desert/tundra unit.

How Do I Prepare for My Grasslands Test?

Grasslands Test

September 26, 2019

Words to know:

habitat

adaptation

carnivore

herbivore

omnivore

predator

prey

producer

consumer

decomposer

food chain

Be able to tell:

  adaptations of grassland plants and animals

If something is harmful or helpful to the grassland

If an organism is a producer, consumer, or decomposer

Where Do I Find This Information?

This information should be in student notebooks and in the science section of the binder.

Study Stack for Grasslands

How Do I Prepare for a Reading Test?

Reading Tests

We will have our first reading test on Wolf! on Tuesday, September 24.  The class has read and analyzed the story in various ways over the last few days, so it is very familiar.  Part of the test will be comprehension questions based on the story. Another portion of the test will ask students to read a passage with some similar vocabulary words and skill usage. They will then apply their reading and comprehension skills on a new passage.  Students will be able to look back through the textbook and passage to help them with remembering the answers.  We have practiced this and have called this "finding evidence".

Here are some links that may also be helpful:

Wolf! Read Aloud

Wolf! Vocabulary Quizlet

Looking Ahead Week of September 23

Looking Ahead 

Week of September 23

ELA:  We will be continuing our practice of analyzing text and providing evidence, particularly for story elements.  We will have a test on Wolf! on Tuesday.  This will be an open book test.  In writing, we will continue learning strategies to encourage us to push forward when we run out of steam or ideas.

Math:  We will continue learning about the relationship between multiplication and division, using the distributive property to help us with larger problems.

Science:  We will review grasslands and test this unit on Thursday.

Social Studies:  We will continue learning about the regions of SC.

Organization

How Are Things Organized?

Binder

Math:  worksheets, notes

ELA:  worksheets, notes

Social Studies:  some worksheets (that do not fit                               well in notebook)

Science:  some worksheets (that do not fit well

                in notebook)

Notebooks

Math:  vocabulary, notes, examples

Social Studies:  notes

Science:  notes

Writing:  writing samples *draft form*

Study Tips for Geography Quiz

Study Tips for Geography Quiz

 on September 19

Students must know:

compass rose directions

location of Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and South Carolina

the states and ocean that border South Carolina

there are 7 continents, 5 oceans and 50 states

Where should we look?

Everything students need is in the social studies section of their binder AND their social studies notebooks.

Looking Ahead Week of September 16

Looking Ahead

Week of September 16

Math:  We will continue working on building the foundation for multiplication and division learning including the commutative and distributive properties.  We will begin using Reflex Math as a supplement.  We will have a quiz on lessons 4-6 on Friday.

Social Studies:  We will begin learning about regions of South Carolina as well as resources that are available in each region.  We will have a geography quiz on Thursday.

Science:  We will be wrapping up our grassland unit.

ELA:  In writing, we will continue writing about small moments and begin to build strategies for when we run out of steam as writers.  In reading, we will continue thinking about story elements and how these help to move the story along.  We will be reading Wolf! in our reading books as an anchor literature piece.

Week Ahead September 9-13

Looking Ahead 

Week of September 9-13

ELA: This week, we will continue learning about story elements. We will begin analyzing character motives and perspectives.  We will continue working with nouns, verbs, adjectives, and types of sentences.  In writing, we will begin short narrative writing samples.  **We will have MAP Reading testing on Monday, September 9.**

Math:  We will continue writing expressions and equations that match arrays. We will also begin to learn more about the commutative and distributive properties of multiplication.  **We will have MAP Math testing on Tuesday, September 10.**

Science:  We will continue learning about the grassland habitat.  We will extend our learning about the roles of animals in the habitat such as being a producer, consumer, or decomposer.

Social Studies:  We will learn more about continents, oceans, our state, and important city locations within South Carolina.

Looking Forward Week of September 3

Looking Forward

Week of September 3

ELA:  We will continue to work with narrative elements in both writing and reading.  

Math:  We will continue to work with equal groups as a foundation for multiplication study.

Science:  We will continue learning about animal and plant adaptations, especially in the grassland habitat.

Social Studies:  We will continue learning about geography basics, especially our place in relation to the world.