Here is a snapshot of what to expect this week:
Science:
We will continue to study the planets this week. We will learn about the three known planets that are furthest from the sun: Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. We will study the rings of Saturn, the weather on Uranus, and the orbit of Neptune.
Literature: In Literature, we will be reading chapters 6-8, and Elmer will encounter a rhinoceros, lion, and gorilla! Students will do a freeze frame, identify key elements, and identify cause and effect throughout the story.
Spalding: 30 words this week - Test on Friday!
Monday: God, god, teacher, November, subject, April, history, study, himself, matter
Tuesday: use, thought, person, nor, or, January, mean, vote, court, copy
Wednesday: act, been, be, yesterday, among, question, quest, doctor, size, December
Phonograms to practice: c, d, g, h, or, ou, ough, qu, ti, u
Writing: This week’s copy work and narration exercises come from the poem “Rain” and the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Idiom: Hit the nail on the head
Poem: “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson
History: In History, we will be learning more about Lewis and Clark’s journey. Students will discuss the early days and the tasks that they were assigned, the importance of Sacagawea, and identify some important plants and animals that Lewis and Clark discovered. On Friday, they will fill out a review to go home and be studied. There will be a test the following Wednesday (May 17th).
Math:
Math: This week we will spend some time reviewing our subtraction skills. We will be subtracting one digit numbers from two digit numbers as well as two digit numbers from each other. We will complete our subtraction problems using two different methods. First, we will use our counting back method and secondly, we will identify the tens and ones in each number and practice taking away ones and tens from each other (for example, in the problem "56-23" we will subtract 3 ones from 6 ones and 2 tens from 5 tens).
