3/20-3/24

Happy Friday! We had a wonderful week back from break, and I have enjoyed hearing stories about the fun activities that everyone did.  Please take a look at what we've been learning this week in our classroom...

Reading
This week in our Views, Values, and Culture unit, students focused heavily on identifying multiple points of view within a text.  After practice with that, we then shifted our thinking to comparing differing points of view within the same text to each other and our own!  We ended the week with role playing multiple points of view by placing ourselves in an unfamiliar role for a discussion.

Please remember to make sure that your child is reading 30 minutes nightly!

Writing
We ended our Short Story unit this week! Students worked hard to revise and edit their pieces.  Take a look at what we've accomplished:

• We revised our introductions to hook in our readers and give them clues about the coming problem in our piece.
• We learned good practices of peer revision.
• We reviewed and edited our pieces for compound sentences and dialogue

Math
In our Rational Numbers unit, students learned how to...

• add and subtract fractions with like denominators.
• add and subtract mixed numbers.

Please remember to have your child practice their multiplication facts nightly!  Students are also assigned an Online Practice Buddy.  Although the Practice Buddy is optional, it is highly encouraged and a great way for parents to see the problem types their children are working with!

Social Studies
It was a fun week in our Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction unit!  Students learned about...

• the Dred Scott Decision and how that impacted slaves and social issues leading up the the Civil War.
• the political, social, and economic causes of the Civil War.  This includes the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Border Wars.
• Students also have the wonderful opportunity to have a Civil War Storyteller come in and perform for them!  Our soldier was a Union soldier fighting in Missouri.  Be sure to ask your child about the performance and what they learned!

Students also are working on an Underground Railroad Webquest.  Students have access to this Webquest through their Google Classroom accounts.  This Webquest is due April 7.  A rubric is located at the bottom of their document.  Students are able to work on this at home!

Upcoming Dates

• 3/31: Spring Pictures
• 4/5: Late Start; 11:05 start
• 4/7: Underground Railroad Webquest due
• 4/14: No School