- Students should continue practicing their typing skills on the website TypingClub. Students have been practicing in class. Please practice your typing skills at least twice a week. Remember to type by sitting with proper posture and with both hands on the home-row keys. I will be checking your progress weekly.
- Parents: Please sign and return all quizzes & assessments that are sent home.
Reading
The following topics will be covered in Reading this week:
-Reading Informational Text.
-Writing detailed responses for open-ended questions.
-Explaining the evidence that we include in our open-ended responses.
-Reading Scholastic News' Debates & writing our own opinions about the question.
*Remember to read at home, at least 5 nights a week, and record your reading on your Reading Log. Please try to read some Informational texts.
Writing
The following topics will be covered in Writing this week:
-Exploring Figurative Language.
-Writing a narrative from a different character's point of view.
Word Study
The following topics will be covered in Word Study this week:
-Unit 14 Vocabulary - Assessment is on Friday, 4/28
-Unit 11 Spelling (Suffixes) - Assessment is on Wednesday, 4/26
-Reviewing the 8 Parts of Speech
Science
The following topics will be covered in Science this week:
-What is the Atomic # of an element?
-What is the Atomic Mass of an element?
-What is the symbol of an element?
-Determining the # of protons, the # of electrons, and the # of neutrons in an element.
-Creating posters for the elements on The Periodic Table.
-What is a mixture?
-What is a compound?
-Comparing & contrasting mixtures and compounds.