132- Weekly Updates (February 6-10, 2023)

February 6-10, 2023 Valentine’s Day Candy Grams- Due Tue Feb 7 Valentine’s Day Class Party- Tue Feb 14 Flag Deck (Parents can watch) Every Friday at 8:10 on the blacktop Read Across America Day + Book Donation Event- Thu Mar 2 March 9- Girls Talk (Pizza, Pajamas, Presentation, Pals) We will spend the next several weeks reading about the American Revolution. This will match closely with our study of the American Revolution in Social Studies. Next week we will read “Alexander Hamilton” The Outsider”. The kids will have work to keep track of their thinking as they read, work on a project, and discuss with partners and groups each day. We will continue our  unit called “Research Based Argument Essay”. The kids will publish their second Argument Essay. For this essay they will argue whether to support or boycott zoos. They will peer edit their paper and turn in their final piece on Thursday. Later in the week the kids will come up with their own topic for their third and final Argument Essay. We will continue a unit called “Whole Number Expressions and Operations”. The students will review the entire unit and take a test on Wednesday. In addition, the kids will review their last CML test and do more CML practice and reflection. This students will continue our Social Studies unit exploring the events leading up to the revolution. We will study the famous “acts” that pushed the colonists to war. The students will be making a digital timeline to help them keep track of all the acts from the Sugar Acts to the Boston Tea Party. The kids will Students watch a video that shows the ways humans and other animals use water.  Then, they will do a close reading of a text to identify where freshwater is found on Earth, what animals are found in those regions, and how they interact with each other and of course see Ms. DeMarco for Science Lab. No vocabulary study this week. The kids will begin planning for their next Chit Chat speech.