Here's what we'll be learning this week: In Word Work, we will work on Unit 2, Lesson 2 in the Word Wisdom book. We will continue to study vocabulary related to movement. This week we will work on the Latin Roots of the words. We will focus on the roots act and agi which mean to do ar act; tract which means to pull; and ten, tin, and tain which mean to hold. In literature study, students will focus on the skill of identifying author’s purpose and author’s point of view. We will begin building background knowledge for the novel “Three Cups of Tea” and we will work on a dramatization of the picture book that tells the same story, “Listen to the Wind.” Students will write the final draft of their expository paragraph. We will compile them in a book with chapters, classifying the different topics that students wrote about.
This week in math, students will review the concepts of Topic 8 including how to classify polygons, how to identify properties of polygons, how to make generalizations about polygons, how to read and draw angles as well as find the value of a missing angle. Students should also understand terminology related to lines, line segments and rays including the terms parallel, perpendicular, and intersecting.
In science this week, students will take a test on the parts of the cell. Then, they will compare the lifecycle of two animals we have in our classroom, fish and butterflies. We will observe these animals.
