Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Week of 5-29-12

In Word Work, students will finish our final unit in the GUM Book and take the Unit 5 test.


In literature study this week, we will continue reading Island of the Blue Dolphins. Students will get a better idea of the bow and arrow that Karana uses to hunt and protect herself by building their own version of these materials. They will work with groups to act out part of the book. Students will end the week as they always do, discussing a debatable question related to the book during Socratic Seminar.

In writing workshop, we will further explore perspective taking while employing the Mind-up Curriculum.

In math this week, students will multiply mixed numbers, divide whole numbers by fractions and use diagrams to solve problems.

In science this week we will graph the data we collected during our Heating Earth’s Materials experiment. Then, we will learn more about solar technology and the importance of the sun.