Looking Ahead January 3-5

Looking Ahead

January 3-5

ELA: We will be working with nonfiction more closely, both in what we read and what we write.

Math:  We will be working with word problems using multiplication and division.

Social Studies:  We will conclude our unit on colonial settlers.

Science:  We will conclude our learning about habitats.

Week in Review December 11-15

Week in Review

December 11-15

ELA:  We worked with comparing and contrasting within text.

Math:  We worked with order of operations and multi-step word problems.

Science:  We learned about water habitats.

Social Studies:  We learned about colonial settlers.

Looking Ahead Week of December 11-15

Looking Ahead 

Week of December 11-15

ELA:  We will continue working with compare and contrast skills.

Math:  We will continue working with multiplication and division.  Students will have a quiz on Wednesday.

Science:  We will wrap up our unit on water habitats.

Social Studies:   We will continue working on learning about colonial times. Students will have a quiz on early settlers on Friday.

Week in Review December 4-8

Week in Review

December 4-8

ELA:  We worked to compare and contrast.  

Social Studies:  We continued to learn about colonial settlers.

Science:  We learned about oceans and estuaries.

Math:  We continued working with multiplication and division.  Students wrote equations using letters for the unknown.

Week in Review November 27- Dec. 1

Week in Review 

November 27 - December 1

ELA:  We worked on formatting and typing final drafts of narrative writing. We also worked with the skill of sequencing.  

Math:  We worked hard with learning our multiplication facts.

Science:  We wrapped up learning about land habitats.

Social Studies:  We continued to learn about

Winter Wishes

Winter Days

We are pairing with Spring Valley High School to help those less fortunate this holiday season.   

We are having a Spirit Week the week of December 4-8th!

To participate each day, you must bring in a non-perishable item.  Canned food, peanut butter, or rice are good examples of things to bring. Spring Valley will pick up our goods to be distributed right here in the Midlands!

Marvel Monday!-Wear a  Superhero t-shirt!

Top Hat Tuesday!-Wear your favorite hat!

Wacky Tacky Wednesday!-Dress tacky!

Throwback Thursday!-Dress from any decade!

Favorite Team/Player Friday!-Wear your favorite team or player’s jersey/shirt.

Looking Ahead Week of December 4

Looking Ahead

Week of December 4

ELA:  We will be working with the skill of compare and contrast, using both fiction and nonfiction.

Science: We will be learning about saltwater and fresh water habitats.

Math:  We will continue working on solving multiplication problems.

Social Studies:  We will conclude our learning about colonial times.

Looking Ahead Weeks of November 20-21 and November 27- December 1

Looking Ahead 

Weeks of November 20-21 and

 November 27- December 1

ELA:  We will publish our scarecrow writing. We will begin our sequencing unit.  We will also read Here's My Dollar  in our reading books.  We will have a test on this selection on Thursday, November 30.

Math:  We will begin Module 3.  This module has a heavy emphasis on using multiplication and division, especially through the 9s.  It is very helpful for students to continue with strategies to memorize these facts. Although using count bys and arrays are still appropriate strategies, the numbers will be larger and therefore memorization will be the best route.  We will be working on this in class as well.

Social Studies:  We will learn about conflicts between the early settlers and Native Americans.

Science:  We will begin learning about water habitats.

Week in Review November 13-17

Week in Review 

November 13-17

ELA:  We have been working on writing a narrative.  

Science:  We learned about deserts and tundras.  We will have a quiz on deserts on Tuesday, November 21.

Social Studies:  We learned about why early settlers came to Carolina.

Math:  We reviewed addition and subtraction as well as different forms of numbers.

Looking Forward Week of November 13

Looking Ahead 

Week of November 13

ELA:  We will be finishing up a narrative writing piece while also reviewing story elements.

Math:  We will work with addition and subtraction of bigger numbers, expanded form, and comparing/ordering numbers.  We will have a quiz on Friday.

Social Studies:  We will continue learning about the early Carolina settler groups.

Science:  We will be learning about deserts and tundras.