Week of October 17th

WELCOME BACK!!!

21st Cent. Class: Financial Literacy

Specials:

Monday-Wednesday: PE

Thursday: Music

Misc:

*Design Thinking Challenge: Special Olympics

Purpose: Specifically foster students' developing sense of empathy, and overall to learn about design thinking. Students will learn to immerse themselves in learning from experts.

- This week, the students will be interviewing two local Special Olympians to continue empathizing to their needs and know what their struggles are and how they overcame them

***MRS. DANIEL'S FIELD TRIP IS THIS WEDNESDAY! MAKE SURE ALL FIELD TRIP FORMS ARE TURNED IN MY TUESDAY IF YOU HAVE NOT TURNED YOURS IN ALREADY!

*We will be deconstructing more WCOs this week so they have more meaning to what the students are being assessed on

Math:

*Math's Mate Test is on Friday

- Students have a review all week to help them study for this assessment

Chapters 4: Divide by a Two-Digit Divisor

*Estimating Quotients

*Dividing by a Two-Digit Divisor

*Quiz on Wednesday

*Adjusting Quotients

*Dividing Greater Numbers

Reading:

*Unit 4 Vocabulary Test will be on November 2nd

- Practice activities are in their Flocabulary site

Figurative Language - Creating their own!

*Personification

*Similies

*Metaphors

*Hyperbole

Writing:

*DLI Week 6 practice (Writing Complete Sentences with no Fragments or Run-Ons) will be due on Tuesday - October 25th

- DLI Quick Write 6 will be due Wednesday, October 26th

Pet Peeves

*Before break, the students were writing about their biggest pet peeve. Describing and explaining why that one instance is so irritating to them. Their finals are due on Tuesday.

BOY Writing Anchors

*Now that we've gone over multiple writing techniques, we will be pulling out the students Beginning of the Year Writing Anchors and start editing and revising those papers this week

Science:

*Students will begin their Living Systems Unit with Ms. Beck this week