A Full Week of Learning

Finally, a full five day week!  Here's what we will be working on the week of 2-6-12:

In Word Work, students will continue to review all of the words in Unit 3. We will classify the words by prefixes. We will turn some of the words into adverbs and act them out. We will find opposites of the words. Then, we will take the Unit 3 post-test. In literature study, students will learn about poetic devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, rhyme, and onomatopoeia. Students will learn more about the Tuskegee Airmen and they will write a new poem using rhyming couplets and the aforementioned poetic devices. In writing workshop, students will work on crafting the final drafts of their fiction stories, while putting them into a book with illustrations.

This week in math, students will add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators, and add mixed numbers. We will spend a day doing problem solving to help students apply what they have learned about fractions.

This week in science, students will learn the difference between class 1, 2, and 3 levers. They will learn the acronym "FLE 123" (pronounced flee) to remember that class 1 levers have the fulcrum in the middle, class 2 levers have the load in the middle, and class 3 levers have the effort in the middle. Try asking your kids to explain this acronym to you at the end of the week. We will also be doing an experiment to see if it is easier to move the load in a class 1 lever if the load is closer to or farther from the fulcrum.