A Sneak Peek at Our Week ...

Reading: Students will read Chapters 9-17 of Sign of the Beaver this week and will take a vocabulary and comprehension quiz over these chapters Friday.  The following are learning goals for the week:

• Describe how and why a character changes based on events of the story 
• Read to answer and respond to questions (clarification and content questions)
• Retell the text to summarize information
• Create mental images that enhance and extend visualization

Along with the comprehension and analysis lessons, students will write reading responses using textual evidence along with an explanation of how the evidence supports their claim or thinking.  

Writing:  Last week students were given a situation or event where many characters were involved.  They then were given the task to write from one character's perspective.  This week students will revise their work by focusing on previously instructed craft lessons.  They will also take part in the peer revision process and edit and publish their work.  On Friday students will be posting these pieces to their blogs!

Math:  This week students will complete lessons 9.2-9.4.  Listed below are learning goals for the lessons:

• 9.2: Rename fourths, fifths, tenths, and hundredths as decimals and percents
• 9.3: Use calculators to determine the percents of more difficult fractions
• 9.4: Solve "fraction of" problems

Science: After creating instruments over the weekend, each student played their instrument in front of the class today.  Students will drew conclusions about how instruments produce vibrations (pluck, strike, blow).  Then they categorized students' instruments based on this information.  Later in the week, students will begin "Mini-Inquiry" research projects on sound.  Based on an interest inventory they will be able to choose an area of sound that interests them (the human ear, sound and animals, music and sound, pitch/frequency, etc.).  There will be more information to come about these!

Important Information

• This Wednesday is parent-teacher conference day!
• Please have your child turn in their permission slip form for the field trip to Open Books