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Please Note: Items in blue above are optional.
Challenge packet: Students are to write the number of cubes used in each diagram. On the third page, write the number of cubes added or subtracted. You may use unit cubes to build the models as needed.
Here are some additional cube math games and math videos to practice math skills learned this year. Optional Math Games
Objectives:
Birds will be active and looking to nest over the nest few weeks. Here is a wonderful publication from Texas Parks & Wildlife which gives a lot of information about Texas birds and how to identify them. There's also coloring pages, facts, and fun activities which will aid in your bird study.
Learn About Texas Birds
1. Interpret 2-dimensional drawings of unit cubes
2.Determine the number of unit cubes used to make a solid
3. Build solids from models drawn on isometric dot paper
4. Visualize new solids formed by adding or removing cubes
Spelling
Objective: Spell words with the sound of /er/ as in journey
Writing
Please scan or send me a picture of your "Great Bear" Final Draft by Wednesday.
You can send me a picture of your "Milky Way" RD to check, or co-teachers can check using the composition checklist. Final Draft is due 4/22/20.
Objectives:
1. Write KWO's from three source texts
2. Write a fused outline from the three KWO's
2. Write a fused outline from the three KWO's
3. Write a RD paragraph from fused outline which includes dress-ups: -ly, who/which clause, www.asia, because clause, strong verb, quality adjective, prepositional opener, adverb opener & Very short sentence
Reading
Objectives:
1. Practice reading fluency and comprehension skills
2. Learn about living life in the wilderness
History
Note: Here is another optional video about Tiananmen Square. Parents should preview first.
Objectives:
1. Know that during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, every part of Chinese culture had to praise Mao & his policies
2. Know that in 1989, thousands of students protested together in Tiananmen Square wanting democracy.
3. Know that life in East Berlin was hard until the fall of the Berlin Wall
Science
Objectives:
1. Present findings on bird of choice
2. Learn about egg incubation, development and hatching
2. Learn about egg incubation, development and hatching
Birds will be active and looking to nest over the nest few weeks. Here is a wonderful publication from Texas Parks & Wildlife which gives a lot of information about Texas birds and how to identify them. There's also coloring pages, facts, and fun activities which will aid in your bird study.
Learn About Texas Birds
Memory Work: Optional for the 4th quarter
Poetry: Our fourth quarter poem is "The Dentist and the Crocodile". Additional copies can be found here.
Geography: We will begin our study of Scandinavia this week. Due 4/8
The Scandinavia song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page.
History: : We are continuing our memorization of the US Presidents. There are several YouTube video songs.
Here are two: US Presidents to "America" US Presidents For assessment, students will write or sing all the
presidents' first and last names. Due 4/22
Here are two: US Presidents to "America" US Presidents For assessment, students will write or sing all the
presidents' first and last names. Due 4/22
Key Dates for 4th quarter:
The War Between the States 1861-1865
World War I 1914-1918
Lenin & the Russian Revolution 1917
The Great Depression 1929-1939
World War II 1939-1945
The Cold War 1945-1991
The Formation of Israel 1948
Mao & Communist Victory in China 1949
Martin Luther King & Civil Rights Movement 1950-1968
Martin Luther King & Civil Rights Movement 1950-1968
Man Walks on the Moon 1969
Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe 1989
The Collapse of the Soviet Union December 26, 1991
