Week of December 5th

21st Cent. Class: Innovation

Specials:

Monday through Wednesday: STEAM

Thursday & Friday: Art

Misc:

*DAY OF CODE ON FRIDAY!

*CHOIR ASSEMBLY TUESDAY MORNING

*BAND ASSEMBLY FRIDAY MORNING

*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

Population Boom! Critical Thinking and Comprehension

*Students will be given a passage that informs them on how the United States Census works and tracks population. Then they will evaluate that process and the outcomes over a long period of time, since the Census began until 2006.

Ms. Morgan's Math:

*Math's Mate Term 2 Sheet 6 due this Friday!

Chapter 6: Multiply and Divide Decimals

*Multiplication Properties - Monday

*Review - Tuesday

*Multiplying Decimals TEST - Wednesday

*Dividing Decimals by Whole Numbers - Thursday

*Dividing Decimals - Friday

STAR MATH ON TUESDAY

Reading:

NO MORE VOCABULARY UNTIL AFTER WINTER BREAK! - Make sure you check your child's personalized learning sheet for their scores from this semester.

*Practice activities are in their Flocabulary site

*Hands-on Vocabulary Games are within the classroom for your child's use if they'd like as well to support them with their study habits

STAR READING ON MONDAY

Writing:

DLI Week 10 practice (Subject/Verb Agreement) will be due on Tuesday - December 13th

*DLI Quick Write 10 will be due Wednesday, December 14th.

Narrative Writing - Personal story about living on an icicle

*Rough Draft/Editing & Revising - Monday & Tuesday

*Finals will be completed on Thursday

Science:

*Students will continue their Earth Systems Unit with Mr. Orlowski this week

- TEST IS NEXT WEEK ON WEDNESDAY!

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