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!