Weeks of April 16 and April 23
Time Flies! We have had plenty of interesting things happening in our class over the past couple weeks.
First off: Hello Adeline in Japan. We hope you're having an incredible time and not too stressed about the whole month you'll be away learning about Japanese culture and landscapes. We look forward to your sharing when you return.
Subjects Update:
Mathematics:
Students took two assessments in Unit 4, multiplication and division of fractions, and studied the first half of the unit and selected key topics in the second part of the unit. There is more work to be done here, but what remains are essentially advanced applications and multi-step problems. To have the students more broadly prepared for the State exams, I've had the student detour from the remainder of fractions unit and cover these topics:
1. Unit 6: Coordinate Plane, including additional practice in identifying the characteristics and comparing geometric shapes, angles, and relationships of sides. We applied our knowledge of describing the location of objects on a coordinate plane by creating and playing "Battleship" on grid paper.
2. A practice review of long division and double-digit multiplication,.
3. Lessons on calculating perimeter and area of 2-dimensional shapes, including when having some unknown sides that students need to generate based upon reasoning and knowledge of shapes.
4. Calculating the area of a triangle.
5. Building, drawing, and reasoning about the volume of rectangular prisms using manipulatives, graph paper, and dot paper. The first focus is on cubic centimeter blocks.
Language Arts:
Reading & Writing:
We completed our Reading and Writing Unit on Science is Alive.
What we are reading in class:
Students have a series of readings on these topics:
U.S. History, The Slave Trade
Segregation in the South in the South in the 1900s up till the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Science article readings: Animal Survival Articles
Reading:
Recognizing text features in stories from the Making Meaning Series
We are continuing our class read aloud, Weedflower
Writing:
Students completed a writing unit on Argument/ Opinion Essays. The topic and example papers were on the subject: Should Community Service Be Required for High School Graduation?
Students are writing 5 paragraph essays, organizing, developing, and supporting arguments that defend an opinion or position.
They also took their District Opinion/Argument Writing Assessment.
Science
In science, students continue to work on the Bolt Catcher project. They have built their prototypes, built a testing station, and completed their first round of testing.
They also studied physical science, including "How can Matter Change?" which covers themes such as evaporation, condensation, physical, and chemical changes.
First off: Hello Adeline in Japan. We hope you're having an incredible time and not too stressed about the whole month you'll be away learning about Japanese culture and landscapes. We look forward to your sharing when you return.
Subjects Update:
Mathematics:
Students took two assessments in Unit 4, multiplication and division of fractions, and studied the first half of the unit and selected key topics in the second part of the unit. There is more work to be done here, but what remains are essentially advanced applications and multi-step problems. To have the students more broadly prepared for the State exams, I've had the student detour from the remainder of fractions unit and cover these topics:
1. Unit 6: Coordinate Plane, including additional practice in identifying the characteristics and comparing geometric shapes, angles, and relationships of sides. We applied our knowledge of describing the location of objects on a coordinate plane by creating and playing "Battleship" on grid paper.
2. A practice review of long division and double-digit multiplication,.
3. Lessons on calculating perimeter and area of 2-dimensional shapes, including when having some unknown sides that students need to generate based upon reasoning and knowledge of shapes.
4. Calculating the area of a triangle.
5. Building, drawing, and reasoning about the volume of rectangular prisms using manipulatives, graph paper, and dot paper. The first focus is on cubic centimeter blocks.
Language Arts:
Reading & Writing:
We completed our Reading and Writing Unit on Science is Alive.
What we are reading in class:
Students have a series of readings on these topics:
U.S. History, The Slave Trade
Segregation in the South in the South in the 1900s up till the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Science article readings: Animal Survival Articles
Reading:
Recognizing text features in stories from the Making Meaning Series
We are continuing our class read aloud, Weedflower
Writing:
Students completed a writing unit on Argument/ Opinion Essays. The topic and example papers were on the subject: Should Community Service Be Required for High School Graduation?
Students are writing 5 paragraph essays, organizing, developing, and supporting arguments that defend an opinion or position.
They also took their District Opinion/Argument Writing Assessment.
Science
In science, students continue to work on the Bolt Catcher project. They have built their prototypes, built a testing station, and completed their first round of testing.
They also studied physical science, including "How can Matter Change?" which covers themes such as evaporation, condensation, physical, and chemical changes.
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