Happy Friday families!!
We want to first and foremost say thank you so much for your support and patience while we navigated distance testing together. We are so proud of the effort our students put in to showing their personal best. This will greatly support us as we continue to plan and teach.
Math: With a short week of live lessons due to NWEA testing, we did not have much time in math class, but we still made the most of it! After testing on Wednesday, students completed a student-paced Nearpod lesson reviewing how to round multi-digit whole numbers. This review helped them with our live lessons Thursday and Friday on rounding decimals to any place. Students are well on their way to mastering this skill! Next week, we will continue in Chapter 5 with estimating sums and differences with decimals and adding decimals.
ELA: Due to NWEA testing this week, students did not have ELA class on Monday and Wednesday. On Tuesday, students completed a student-paced ELA Nearpod with a video, informational slides, and interactive tasks based on the conventions lesson. The lesson included information and activities involving: personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns, possessive pronouns, and relative pronouns. Within the lesson, I also reviewed the concepts of subjects and objects of a sentence. On Thursday and Friday, we continued reading our novel Night of the Spadefoot Toads. We will be reading the final chapter on Monday. Throughout Thursday and Friday’s lessons, students practiced the skill of going back into the text to find evidence to support their answer, analyzing the meaning of figurative language and the author’s purpose for it, and explaining the significance of events within each chapter. Next week we will be focusing on plot and theme.
Social Studies/Science:
Due to testing this week we really did not have a lot of time in Social Studies. Students completed a self paced nearpod on Monday about Mayan religion. We will continue working on our unit about the Mayan civilization next week. Students will continue to investigate this civilization’s government structure, religious culture, economics, art and architecture, science and technology, environment, and social and cultural values.
In Science we began a new chapter where we will focus on the physical features of plants and animals. This unit will help students be able to understand that living things have 5 essential characteristics in common but that each of these characteristics may look different for each species. Students will gain an understanding that each of these structures has a specific function that help it to survive, grow, and reproduce.
Science Retake Information:
Students’ science tests have been released to them on Edulastic. Students may now go back into the assignment and see their score and the questions that they missed. If students received below a 70% they are required to retest. In order to retake the test students will need to correct their incorrect answers on a Google Doc and explain why their answer choice was wrong. They will then need to complete an additional activity to prepare for the retake. They may choose from the following activities:
- Write a paragraph about their misconceptions from the original assessment
- Create a thinking map to show the concepts from the assessment
- Use Quizizz to create digital flashcards
- Create a slides presentation about the growth and development of plants and animals
Students will then be able to join a live meet session on Tuesday 9/1 or Wednesday 9/2 at 2:30pm after specials to retake their test. The link will be assigned to them in their Science classroom under “Redo Work”