Week of October 24th

21st Cent. Class: Financial Literacy

Specials:

Monday-Wednesday: Music

Thursday: STEAM

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.

- Last week, the students interviewed two local Special Olympians (as pictured below) to continue empathizing to their needs and know what their struggles are and how they overcame them

- This week, they will meet with the parents of those two Special Olympians so they can continue their questions

- After our interviewing is complete, we will synthesize information to develop a point of view statement and generate potential ideas

Ms. Morgan's Math:

*Math's Mate Test is on Monday as we did not have time on Friday to do this

Chapter 4: Divide by a Two-Digit Divisor

*Problem Solving using Division on Monday

*Test Review on Tuesday & Wednesday

*Test on Thursday

Chapter 5: Add & Subtract Decimals

*Rounding Decimals on Friday

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

*Onomatopeia

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

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 continue editing and revising those papers this week

Science:

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