Reminders
Monday, September 28 - Curriculum Chat (11 am and 6 pm)
Field Trip forms are due Friday, October 2
10/19 – 10/23 – ITBS – parents will not be allowed in the building (for volunteering or to have lunch with your child) during this week because of standardized testing.
Reading:
This past week we focused on cause and effect while reading nonfiction texts. This has been a bit of a challenge for some students. Next week we will review cause and effect and also discuss sequencing in nonfiction texts.
Writing:
The students are doing better with adding dialogue and paragraphs to their writing. Next week we will continue to focus on these skills while discussing what other dialogue tags we can use besides the word “said”. Students will be given a checklist to help them with their writing to make sure they are on the right track.
Math:
Next week we will start our multiplication and division unit. We will begin with multiplication. The students took a pretest today on these skills so I know who already has a grasp of these concepts.
The math tests will be returned next week. If your child gets below a 70% they will have an opportunity to retake it – the highest grade they will be able to earn will be a 70%.
Please remember that if I do not teach your child math, you will need to check your child’s math teacher’s blog for information and updates.
Social Studies:
We will be finishing up our democracy unit next week.
We will have a Direct vs. Representative quiz on Monday, September 28. I have uploaded pictures of the pages students need to study under the social studies homework section of our blog.
We will have a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday, September 30. The words are in your child’s composition notebook.
The Democracy Test will be Friday, October 2. For the test, students will need to be able to:
Monday, September 28 - Curriculum Chat (11 am and 6 pm)
Field Trip forms are due Friday, October 2
10/19 – 10/23 – ITBS – parents will not be allowed in the building (for volunteering or to have lunch with your child) during this week because of standardized testing.
Reading:
This past week we focused on cause and effect while reading nonfiction texts. This has been a bit of a challenge for some students. Next week we will review cause and effect and also discuss sequencing in nonfiction texts.
Writing:
The students are doing better with adding dialogue and paragraphs to their writing. Next week we will continue to focus on these skills while discussing what other dialogue tags we can use besides the word “said”. Students will be given a checklist to help them with their writing to make sure they are on the right track.
Math:
Next week we will start our multiplication and division unit. We will begin with multiplication. The students took a pretest today on these skills so I know who already has a grasp of these concepts.
The math tests will be returned next week. If your child gets below a 70% they will have an opportunity to retake it – the highest grade they will be able to earn will be a 70%.
Please remember that if I do not teach your child math, you will need to check your child’s math teacher’s blog for information and updates.
Social Studies:
We will be finishing up our democracy unit next week.
We will have a Direct vs. Representative quiz on Monday, September 28. I have uploaded pictures of the pages students need to study under the social studies homework section of our blog.
We will have a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday, September 30. The words are in your child’s composition notebook.
The Democracy Test will be Friday, October 2. For the test, students will need to be able to:
- Identify and explain the ways that ancient Greece has influenced us (democracy, Olympics, architecture)
- Identify the differences between direct democracy and representative democracy (direct democracy: ancient Greece, citizens directly voted on laws and governed themselves; representative democracy: United States, citizens elect leaders to represent them)
- Know the 3 levels of government (local, state, national)
- Know the 3 branches of government (Executive, Legislative, Judicial)
- Identify who at each level is in each branch (example--the mayor is the Executive Branch at the local level, the General Assembly is the Legislative Branch for the state of Georgia, the Supreme Court is the Judicial Branch at the national level)
- State the roles and responsibilities of each branch at the local, state, and national level (example--city council, General Assembly, and Congress write and vote on laws)
- Explain what separation of powers is and why we have it (separation of power--all three branches have different responsibilities spread out amongst them; this is done to prevent one branch from becoming too powerful)