Week 3

What’s Coming Up?

Math

This week we will work with order of operations, simplifying expressions, and solving equations.   There will be plenty of  notes in our math journals to review. Also, here is a great video to help preview what we will be learning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAgfnK528RA

Upcoming Quizzes/Tests:

Problem solving quiz - Friday

English Language Arts/Reading

This week we will be  finishing up our individual reading level assessments and beginning our book clubs.  Students will be assigned a book to read with their groups and required to keep up with their 'bookmarks' which will help focus on specific skills.  This bookmark will also help develop questions and summarizing skills to guide conversation among the students reading the same book together.

Upcoming Quizzes/Tests:

Spelling quiz - Friday, 9/9 (Last Friday, students were given their first spelling list of the year.)

Quizlet quiz  - Friday, 9/9 NEW Quizlet link: Quizlet week #3

Science

We are beginning our unit on Matter and its properties.  We will focus on what matter is, what it is not, the main states of matter, and changes that can occur.  Below are a few videos that you may use to review:

Study Jams Science

You will see scrolling topics under science.  Select “matter.”  The three videos I suggest are: Properties of Matter, Solids Liquids Gases, and Physical and Chemical Changes in Matter.

Social Studies

We are continuing our unit on early explorers and also covering essential map skills, which despite technological advances, still come in good use! We will be working on letters to Spain/England from the perspective of early explorers. This will serve as our first display project, so be as creative as possible! Due Friday.