133- Weekly Updates (February 13-17, 2023)

Hey Mr. Gray

Feb 13-17, 2023

• Bring Photography Device each Tuesday
• Valentine’s Day Class Party- Tue Feb 14
• No School Fri Feb 17 and Mon Feb 20
• Read Across America Day + Book Donation Event- Thu Mar 2
• March 9- Girls Talk (Pizza, Pajamas, Presentation, Pals)
• Flag Deck (Parents can watch) Every Friday at 8:10 on the blacktop

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 “I Survived: The American Revolution, 1776”. In anticipation of our upcoming Revolution Book Club Unit, the kids will make a reading plan for their group which will include of timeline for their reading, independent and group work, and a rubric for grading.

We will continue our unit called “Research Based Argument Essay”. The kids will publish their third Argument Essay. For this essay the students will choose their topic of research. They will work throughout the week with independence and refer back to the work we have already done in our first two essays.

We will wrap up a unit called “Whole Number Expressions and Operations”. The students work on a project highlighting some of the trickier elements of order of operations and written expressions, work to solve difficult problems, and do some CML practice.

This students will continue our Social Studies unit exploring the events leading up to the revolution. We will focus on the intolerable acts next week that pushed the colonists to war. The students will be continue a digital timeline to help them keep track of all the acts and events. The will turn in the first half of their timeline on Thursday. We will also take a quiz on the location of the 50 states on Wednesday. Finally, we will introduce the Great State Project which will be due on Thursday, Feb 23.

The kids will read a text and answer questions about water on Earth based on what they learned from the previous reading. They will share their work and discuss the availability of freshwater on Earth. Then students observe a demo that represents freshwater on Earth and graph the results. Students draw and label a model of fresh and saltwater on Earth to demonstrate understanding and of course see Ms. DeMarco for Science Lab.

No vocabulary study this week. The kids will continue planning for their next Chit Chat speech.