I hope you all had a great long weekend! Coach Cook and I are slowly making Chief bionic, so he went in for knee surgery on Friday. The weekend was spent loving on our recovering pup, and trying to take cute videos of him in the cone of shame. We spent some much needed time with family, and are rested and refreshed to tackle this week!
Here is a look at our learning this week:
Language arts: We will NOT introduce any new words in Spalding this week. Instead we will test on the words from last week, and review and practice several misspelled words! In literature we will continue to work on editing our paragraph describing how Pa makes bullets. We will read chapters 4 and 5 of Little House in the Big Woods. We will compare and contrast Christmas in the Ingalls house with an important holiday in our own homes. In Grammar students will review and classify all parts of speech learned, including sentences containing conjunctions and compound parts. Students will practice identifying the central narrative in a passage, in the story The Magic of Oz by Frank L. Baum.
Math: We will begin a new unit on GRAPHING! We will begin by making a tally chart and a simple picture graph. By the end of the week we will be interpreting picture and bar graphs, as well as identifying the range and mode in picture and bar graphs!
Science: We will be starting a new unit on biographies through reading and learning about a man named Elijah McCoy, an African-American inventor. Do you know the saying "That's the Real McCoy" and where it came from? Ask your scholar about Elijah's important contributions!
History: We are moving on to the Civil War unit. Students will learn about disagreements between the North and the South that resulted in war. Ask your scholar about the Underground Railroad.
