What We Are Learning


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What we are learning in school this week... 
 

Language Arts: 
Our story of the week is: Dinosaurs Travel
Phonics: vowel digraphs  ou (gh)
Focus skill: author's purpose


Spelling/Vocabulary:
skill: vowel digraphs ou: routine, through, you, soup, group, wound, coupon, youth, throughway, throughout
review words: childhood, should
high frequency words: able, board, seat
Vocabulary words: cassette, companions, luggage, relatives, sturdy
Writing:
Journaling, story maps, writing about our story, creative writing

Grammar:
Skill-  go, do, went, did


Math: We always work on our timed Math fact tests and graphing our progress.

 Chapter 12: Geometry

Lesson 12-4: making new shapes
Lesson 12-5: cutting shapes apart
Lesson 12-6: dividing rectangles into equal squares
Lesson 12-7: wholes and equal parts
Lesson 12-8: problem solving: use reasoning


Math Vocab for this week:

trapezoid
parallelogram
rows
columns
equal
halves
fourths



Science/Social Studies:
We have started learning about the Ancient Greeks and will take a test this week on the first part of Ancient Greeks that we have covered.

We have learned about ancient Greece's geography, surrounding seas, 12 Gods/Godesses of Mount Olympus, the first olympics, the city-states of Athens and Sparta, and much much more!

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