Week of Jan. 11-15

Literacy

Read Aloud: "Henry's Freedom Box", a true story from the Underground Railroad, by Ellen Levine and Kadir Nelson. We will focus on sequence of events.

"An Apple for Harriet Tubman", by Glennette Tilley Turner. We will focus on problem and solution.

Read Aloud for fun!!!! The BFG, we will focus on a diversity of reading strategies.

Shared Reading: "The Underground Railroad", we will read this piece of text to learn more in depth information about the Underground Railroad and will make text to text connections as well.

Interactive Writing: We will write the conclusion paragraph for "Our New Year's Resolutions" and a paragraph describing the sequence of events in "Freedom Box". We will use sequence words as we write.

Independent Writing: Students will finish their essay " My New Year's Resolutions". They will do peer editing of their work and will write the final draft. When finished, they will write a paragraph explaining the sequence of events in one of our Read Aloud stories. They will also be given a list of phrases so they can write the possessive form of nouns.

Students will also participate in Centers, Independent Reading, and Reading Cycles.

MATH:

Today we reviewed our measurement lessons thus far. Tomorrow (Tuesday) students will have their measurement quiz. For this, they must memorize which is least to greatest (ex: tsp, tbsp, cup, pint, quart, gallon, etc) as well as how many each has of the other for conversions (ex: 3 tsp=1tbsp, 12 inches=1ft, etc.)



Wednesday we will begin chapter 5, which focuses on multiplying by 1-digit factors. This will include multiplying tens (40x6), exploring multiplication patterns (6x4, 6x40, 6x400), and estimating products (8x78 can be estimated 8x80). Next Monday they will have a quiz on these 3 things, then we will move on to multiplying by bigger numbers.



Timed Test: Thursday's timed test will be the 9s time table.



SCIENCE:

Last Friday and today, students worked on an assignment for The Atmosphere. Tomorrow (Tuesday) students will be quized on this topic. Students must know all 4 of the layers of the atmosphere, the order of the layers, and important characteristics of each layer. This information is on a handout in their Science notebooks.



Wednesday and Thursday we will be discussing Wind and Wild Winds, then Friday students will have a quiz on winds.