Class Updates:
Social Studies: We spent the majority of the week learning about Ancient Roman culture. Next week, we will begin an in-class research project. Students will be able to pick any topic about Ancient Rome and investigate it further and ultimately create a slideshow showing what they have learned.
Science: We have been using the spider simulation in Amplify and K-nex to study and model how proteins create structure and genes provide instructions for building proteins. We have completed through page 43 in our binder and have read/annotated articles A and B in the back of the binder about spider silk and hemophilia. Instead of collecting binders I will collect some binder pages each week to check class work progress. Students should be sure to complete all binder pages each week as assigned.
Literacy: These last two weeks have been jam packed in Literacy! We completed Latin Unit 7 and began our unit on the power children have had to change history. Our students watched an educational documentary The Children’s March this week and saw how brave the children of Birmingham, Alabama were in 1963! We read Alice Walker‘s short story called The Flowers, and kids did a fabulous job with Rapid Research of important terms! Ask your children what they learned! On to Latin 8, and more close reading about children in history!
English: Students did a wonderful job creating and submitting their character change cartoon projects a couple weeks ago. Their designs were creative and well executed! We've switched gears a bit in English the last two weeks - moving from our classic literature unit to our science fiction unit, which focuses on The Giver. We are currently five chapters in and the suspense is starting to build!
Math: We are finishing up our circles unit. Students spent the past week learning about radius, diameter, circumference and area of a circle. This week we will continue on with learning about complex shapes.We have a test this Thursday, study guides will go home Monday.
One of our team teachers celebrates their birthday on Monday, we lost track of the how old they are so we are celebrating age advancement instead! Happy Birthday …..
