In word work, students will work with the words lecture, assert, declare, elaborate, expression, insist, acoustics, converse, accentuate, and petition.
In literature study, students will practice using details from Mississippi Trial 1955 to make inferences. When we infer we use background knowledge with clues in the text to come up with our own ideas about what the author is trying to present.
In writing workshop, we will practice mindful thinking this week and concentrate on mindful seeing with two different Mind-Up activities. Then, we will start a unit on persuasive writing by discussing some topics that students will be asked to talk a side on. In the final activity of the week, students will have to convince a classmate that their type of food is better than the other’s by making claims and evidence about their food.
This week in math students will learn how to write the same number as a fraction, decimal, and percent. Students will learn that finding a percent of a whole number is like finding part of a whole. They will learn how to display data in a table and extend a pattern to find percents. Students will answer questions about a recipe to review ratios, percents, fractions, and decimals.
