Week of October 31st

Happy Halloween!

21st Cent. Class: Financial Literacy

Specials:

Monday-Wednesday: STEAM

Thursday: Art

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.

- 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

- They then met 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

*Thank you to Mrs. Rusk who has helped put together our class Halloween party Monday morning!

Ms. Morgan's Math:

*Math's Mate Term 2 Sheet 2 is due Friday

Chapter 5: Add & Subtract Decimals

*No math on Monday!

*Rounding Decimals

*Estimating Sums & Differences

*Problem Solving Day on Thursday

*Quiz 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

*Idioms

Novel Studies

*We will begin our new novel studies this week

- The students had a choice on which book to read, some may be easier than others, but all skills the students will be working on will be a challenging skill for them based on their STAR data

Writing:

*DLI Week 7 practice (Writing Complete Sentences with no Fragments or Run-Ons) will be due on Tuesday - November 1st

- DLI Quick Write 7 will be due Wednesday, November 2nd

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

- Most students are done editing and revising so now their focus will be working on adding their personal writing goal into their final draft

Science:

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