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.

Week in Review November 6-10

Week in Review

November 6-10

ELA:  We continued working with story elements in both reading and writing. 

Math:  We wrapped up Module 2.  We reviewed addition, subtraction, and rounding.

Science:  We began learning about deserts.

Social Studies:  We continued to learn about early Carolina settlers.

Looking Ahead Week of November 6-10

Looking Ahead 

Week of November 6-10

ELA:  We will continue to work with story elements, especially plot.  We will also begin process writing a narrative.   We will start from prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.

Math:  We will practice rounding, addition, and subtraction skills. We will have a Module 2 test on Friday.

Science:  We will learn about fossils this week.  Fossil Frank will come for a visit on Wednesday. Students will connect what they learn from Fossil Frank to habitats that they are learning about. We will have a rainforest quiz on Wednesday.

Social Studies:  We will begin learning about the early colonists in Carolina.  

Week in Review October 30- November 3

                                                                                                                  

Week in Review

October 30-November 3

ELA:   We continued to explore story elements.  Students are learning more about how to describe character traits and how to provide evidence from the text to support their thoughts.  We also worked more with structuring sentences with correct capitalization, punctuation, and complete thoughts.

Math:  We continued working with rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. We also worked with addition strategies.  We will have a test on Module 2 on Friday.

Science:  We wrapped up our learning about rainforests.  We have connected our learning to ELA by reading books about rainforests and analyzing video about this habitat.  We will have a quiz on rainforests on Wednesday.

Social Studies:  We completed a group project to review what we have learned about explorers.  We also wrapped up our learning about S.C. explorers.

Synergizing

Students worked together in groups to create a poster about one of the explorers we have learned about.  Students used their resources to remind their classmates about where the explorer was from, what his motive was, and where he explored.  They also provided an illustration.  This first formal group project was a great success!