Language Arts
We will complete our Expository writing masterpiece for a major grade. We will ask our students to take their papers home for you to read, edit, and/or give them suggestions before they turn them in on Friday, January 27th. If your child gets their paper signed, they can receive bonus points. We will also begin our Traditional Literature unit of study. The students will identify the differences between the different types of books and complete several activities throughout the week using learned information. One of our weekly goals is to finish our class read aloud, My Life in Dog Years, and complete our in class project for this book. The students have been told that they are allowed to use this book on their Reading Log.
Homework
Homework will be given on Monday, January 23rd and due on Friday, January 27th. Please make sure your child is reading every evening and recording their books on their Reading Log. Also make sure they are completing three projects over three different books. The students have been told that the projects need to be without spelling errors, neat, and displaying their best work.
Social Studies
This week, we will be learning about the Industrial Revolution. We will identify inventors and manufacturers from the late eighteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries. We will also be discussing new forms of transportation. Students will learn that new inventions and forms of transportation had costs and benefits. Later in the week, we will begin discussing Westward Expansion. We will read about The Trail of Tears, and learn that traveling on the westward trails had costs and benefits as well.
Homework will be given on Tuesday and due on Thursday.
