Happy March!!
Teacher humor…
Q: Why didn’t the teacher wear sunglasses over spring break?
A: None of her bright students were around.
Math: We are continuing our fractions module with locating fractions on number lines and comparing fractions with like & unlike denominators using number lines. Students will also recognize that equivalent fractions are at the same point on the number line, and will also be expressing whole numbers as fractions. We will wrap up the Module right before spring break. Practicing multiplication facts will also help for this module. Thank you for your support!
Reading: Students are beginning the month by wrapping up a mini-unit determining the Topic, Main Idea, and supporting details of various texts. Then, we’ll wrap up our text set involving stories on facing challenges. Students have done well with identifying the challenge and will work on finding evidence to support how the characters showed determination, and how they can relate the stories’ messages to their own lives. We'll also discuss how characters are not necessarily all "good" or "bad", rather they learn and grow through their experiences. We will also be starting to work on reading longer passages, first as a full class and then independently while answering multiple choice questions and working on extended responses.
Language Arts: Students delved into the biography genre and are continuing to learn about several different types of people – from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Roberto Clemente and many inspiring people in between. As students listen to the accomplishments and struggles of these people, they have been practicing describing them with different attributes and backing up their thoughts/opinions with details from the text. This practice will lead us to the final writing piece of the unit, an opinion piece on a person that students wanted to learn more about.
Social Studies: We wrapped up our Native Americans unit on the last day of February. March begins our next science unit.
Science: Our next science unit is on Inheritance and Traits. In this unit students will be acting as wildlife biologists to answer the big question: How do organisms get their traits? Students will be analyzing two wolf packs and trying to figure out why “Wolf 44” has certain traits. Through various activities, students will be learning about variation and trait acquisition.
