WEEK OF DECEMBER 5th-9th

HOMEWORK MONDAY
Read Newsela: "Wildfires in Tennessee could be 
a sign of things to come in Southeast"+Quiz
Writing-Finish Rough Drafts of both Diamantes
Speech-Practice Expert Speech with Slides
Begin reading/learning Poem for recital

HOMEWORK TUESDAY
Read 25 min AR
Math 10 Marks Due tomorrow
Writing-Finish Final Draft of Diamante with
ART + COLOR!
Speech-Practice Expert Speech

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
Read 20 min.
Kid Blog! Respond to my post
about Tories/Patriots
Speech-Practice Expert Speech
on Google Slides (film self on 
phone if possible, to practice)
Science-Weather Test next Tuesday
See link on side for study guide

HOMEWORK THURSDAY
Writing-Finish Couplet Rough Drafts (x2)
Science-Finish Packet + p. 154-155 in wkbk
Study for Science Test-Use study guide

CLASS UPDATE

Reading-This week we are reading "Katie's Trunk", a story about the Loyalists and Patriots during the Revolution. The reading skill being covered is Cause and Effect

Writing-This week we are doing Diamantes and Couplets. In addition, each student chose a famous winter poem to memorize and recite at our Poetry Cafe on Friday, December 16th, at 8:15am.

Math-We are working with metric conversions and decimals this week.

Science-We are wrapping up the weather unit this week. The test will be next Tuesday. Check out the study guide on side of blog to study!

Blogging-The students have set up a new accounts so that they can blog. I sent out a post for them to respond to today. In addition, I sent the invite code to parents so that they can check out what their students are blogging about.

Speech-Students are giving their "Expert" speeches starting Thursday and ending on Monday.