February 4th - Feb. 8th

Welcome to February! Spring conferences are in about a month from now and I will be sending home progress reports this week. As always if you have any questions regarding the progress report send me an email and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Thursday, February 7th is Multicultural spirit day!

MATH - Currently the students are working on fractions. We have been doing a lot of enrichment assignments with fractions on paper and online with our new program Class Hero. The students are focused only on fractions when using Class Hero.

Monday: 10 -3 Using Fractions
Tuesday: 10-4 Comparing Fractions on the Number Line
Wednesday: 10-5 Finding Equivalent Fractions
Thursday: 10-6 Equivalent Fractions and the Number Line
Friday: 10-7 Whole Numbers and Fractions

READING - Monday will be the Unit 5 Advancements in Technology reading test online. They will be doing the Benchmark assessment program on Clever. Then on Tuesday we will be starting Unit 8. We have jumped from five to eight in order to connect our new science unit with reading.

Unit 8 - Weather Climate

“Fairweather Clouds” 
“Earth’s Weather and Climate”

Essential Question: How can we predict the unknown?

Close Reading

✓ Read and Respond to a Poem
✓ Use Text Features: Footnotes
✓ Distinguish Literal from Nonliteral Language: Metaphors 
✓ Identify Key Details and Main Idea
✓ Use Context Clues to Define Domain- Specific Vocabulary 
✓ Identify Genre Features: Descriptive Texts
✓ Compare and Contrast a Poem and a Descriptive Text


WRITING

Introduce the Unit 8 Research Project

1. Use Print Sources to Choose Research Topics
   
2. Use Online Sources to Choose Research Topics
   
3. Formulate and Evaluate Guiding Research Questions
   
4. Categorize Information and Identify
   Possible Sources
   

VOCABULARY WORDS

billowing 
climate 
cumulus 
elevation 
factors

measure 
nimbus 
splay 
surface 
temperature

weather 

SCIENCE
We will be doing a weather unit in science this month. The students will also be working on a weather related project.