128- Weekly Updates (January 7-13, 2023)

January 7-13, 2023 We will start a new unit called “Argument and Advocacy” will focus on students gathering information and taking a side on issues relevant to kids. The students will read articles and study other sources of information to organize an argument and prepare for a debate. We will discuss rules for arguments/debates and how to mine for relevant information. The students will take a quiz on Thursday. We will start a new unit called “Research Based Argument Essay”. We will start off by analyzing arguments (reflecting our work in reader’s workshop), then flash-draft arguments. At the end of the week we will begin to build argument with evidence using quotes. We will start a unit called “Whole Number Expressions and Operations”. The students will spend the week analyzing and practicing different strategies for the multiplication and division of whole numbers. We will spend time attending to precision to make sure we do not make careless mistakes. The students will take a quiz on Friday. As we study the English colonies in the middle of the 18th century, the students will study how different colonies were set up and they will make their own colony with rules and expectations. Then we will take a day to study the First Great Awakening which was a religious and societal change in the colonies that directly affected the idea of being an “American”. The kids will study Energy in Food Chains they will explore ideas about energy and matter flow, watch a video about food chains, make connections from what they have learned so far. The goal is to strengthen knowledge of how energy moves through a food chain and of course have Science Lab with Ms. DeMarco. The students will start our next section of Classical Roots looking at Lesson 2 which has the roots “sub” and “torqueo, torquere” and “verso, versare”