ELA
This week the students will begin to learn the characteristics of adventure stories, and the students will read adventure stories. The students will learn how to create mental images in the mind to assist in comprehension. They will also study action verbs and linking verbs. The vocabulary words are inhabit, dolphin, plankton, marine, unique.
• The students will take a reading comprehension quiz and a verb quiz Friday.
Social Studies
• The students will learn the reasons why Europeans chose to explore and colonize the world. By the end of this week, they should be able to describe major early explorations and explorers and their reasons for exploration. They will learn how the Spanish conquests in the Americas made an impact on the Native Americans.
• There will not be a quiz this week. However, each student will do a research project on a different explorer. The project will be a grade.
Math
Students will continue their unit on Fractions. This week, they will continue to learn how to change fractions into decimals and decimals into fractions. The students will also review place value when studying decimals. They will learn to explain and write a numerical representation for a positive improper fraction, mixed number, and decimals from a pictorial representation.
• The students will take a math quiz Friday.
Science
This week is Social Studies week.
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