Academic Calendar and Connections for the Weeks of May 28 - June 10

Camp Orkila:  June 1 -3

Week of May 28:

No School on Monday, May 27 or regular classes on Friday, June 1, due to Camp Orkila

Our learning focus for the Week of May 27:

Mathematics:

1. Multiplying and drawing models for multiplying fractions by fractions and Mixed numbers by fractions.

2. Perspective (Front, Top, Side) drawings and "building" construction of rectangular prisms using cm cubes.

Social Studies:

The History of:


1.  "Growing Tensions Between the Colonies and Britain" with the sub-topics of the French and Indian War, The Boston Tea Party, and Taxation without Representation.

2.  Industrialization, WWI, WWII, and Modern America - context to support our readings of Milkweed and Weedflower.

Language Arts:

1.  Inferences through, "The Van Gogh Cafe"

2. "Fly into Action"  Skydiving vocabulary:  free fall, altitude, static line, trajectory,

3.  Writing:  Speeches for Promotion ceremony

4.  Writing:  Letters of thanks for our volunteers

5.  Independent reading