134- Weekly Updates (February 20-24, 2023)
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February 20-24, 2023
- Bring Photography Device each Tuesday
- No School Mon Feb 20
- Read Across America Day + Book Donation Event- Thu Mar 2
- Jog-a-thon March 3
- Flag Deck (Parents can watch) Every Friday at 8:10 on the blacktop
- March 9- Girls Talk (Pizza, Pajamas, Presentation, Pals)
- Mar 23- Guys Stuff- 5:30p in MPR
We will spend the next several weeks reading about the American Revolution. The students will read with a partner. They will choose from a variety of American Revolution books. They will have 2 weeks to ready one or two books and create an individual project for the book and a partner project. They will turn this in at the end of their reading time.
We will take a day to celebrate the student’s 3rd argument essay. The kids will get to share their topics and writing and give positive comments to others during a gallery walk. We will start our next unit where the kids will bring history to life writing informational pieces about the American Revolution. They will just being that work next week but eventually the students will write an informational piece and then record a podcast.
The students will take a mid-year basic skills test on Wednesday which will be their final grade for trimester 2 in math. On Thursday, the students will take their next CML test and on Tuesday, we will give an introduction and start this year’s stock market game!
This students will continue our Social Studies unit exploring the events leading up to the revolution. We will focus first continental congress and the first battles of the Revolutionary War (Lexington and Concord). The students will be continue a digital timeline to help them keep track of all the acts and events. We will also take a quiz on the location of the 50 states on Wednesday. The students who have already tested out of the 50 states will move on to studying state capitals and state flags. Finally, the kids will finish their great state project. They need to bring their posters to class on Thursday. We will put all the posters up in the MPR and the students do a scavenger hunt of the different states.
The kids will begin to research the ways in which communities protect Earth's limited water resources and of course see Ms. DeMarco for Science Lab.
We will start Classical Roots Lesson 3 and the kids will continue to work on their Chit Chat Speech #3.
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