We are currently working on the following material for the week of April 30th, 2012:
Subject Area: Language Arts
Unit Title: assess, review, and build on skills across the curriculum.
- Students will create a folder on the class computers for assignments.
- Students will read the daily schedule.
- Students will participate in morning L.A. warm-ups such as “exploding the code”, word decoders, and word challenges.
- Students will answer three comprehension/critical thinking questions (if appropriate).
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Subject Area: Math
Unit Title: assess, review, and build on skills
- Cooking experiences to reinforce fraction concepts
- One on one/small group instruction
- Students will utilize the computer for independent functioning
- Students will create a folder on the class computers for assignments.
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Subject Area: Social Studies (World Cultures, Geography, Civics concepts)
- Students will continue to review the 5 themes of Geography
- comprehension questions on Egypt
- Students will finish core instruction on facts of ancient Egypt
- Begin Ancient Greece
- Students will utilize the internet to review state, identify, label continents, oceans of Earth
- Students will continue to interpret a map key using internet sites on the class computer & smart board
- Students will construct models of a pyramid, obelisk, sphinx
- Students will identify U.S. states and state their location.
- Students will identify state important U.S. historical sites
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Subject Area: Science (Nutrition) Weather will be reviewed for reinforcement
- Students will be asked to name their favorite foods.
- Students will discuss what they eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner.
- Students will make a healthy meal or snack on Fridays.
- Students will explore the following the essential questions about the nutrition.
- What is nutrition?
- Why should people eat healthy?
- What happens when you eat? Where does it go? ( digestive system)
- What is the digestive system?
- What are vitamins/minerals? What do they do?