READING
This
week, we have the privilege of having one of our District Literacy
Coaches, Mark Smith, here to guide our reading classes through several
different STAAR-like
review lessons and games. We will also spend majority of the week on
our last research writing assignment. The students will work on this
assignment throughout the week, and it will be due Monday, April 16th
for a major grade. They will be required to research
their topic, compose a writing masterpiece, and create a media component
to display their findings.
HOMEWORK
Please
make sure your child is reading every evening and recording their books
on their reading log. Their reading logs will be do Friday, May 4th
for a major
grade. The week of April 23rd, the students will be completing their
last reading project in class.
Read Works: Playing with Sounds
Vocabulary: Unit 13: Read pgs. 164-165; Complete Vocabulary in Context & Completing the Sentence
Social Studies
This
week, we will be continuing our unit on South Asia. Some topics we
will explore are Hinduism, traditions, daily life, popular culture,
democracy, economic growth, and the
Golden Quadrilateral. Students will complete activities such as making
travel brochures and completing reading notes to display what they have
learned.
Writing
This
week, we will introduce our next writing project. Students will be
given a list of topics to choose to research. They will research their
topic and write a research paper.
They will also create a media presentation using the information from
their research. In grammar, we will be working with direct objects and
indirect objects
