Week of January 9th-13th!!!

I hope everyone had a relaxing and warm weekend. I was able to relax all weekend, and it was amazing! Check out some important dates this week:

Friday, January 13th: Reading Logs due and SCIENCE TEST!!!

ELA: This week we will revisit our learning targets of summarizing and theme. We are working with students to recognize that a summary does not include every little detail in a story-only the most important. A story should be able to be summarized in 3-4 sentences maximum. I always like to close the book and ask myself, “What did I read about?” Only the most important details will be recalled. We will also look at theme, where we ask what the “big idea” or lesson of the story is. We will practice both of these skills by reading a drama this week. Check out the practice activities below:
1. Summarizing Monsters activity
2. Summarizing online tool– copy a website address into the tool and it will summarize the entire webpage for you!
3. A Pirate’s Life– Practice summarizing
4. Identifying Theme Practice

Science:
We will have our Earth Materials unit test on FRIDAY!!!  Please make sure you are reading the study guide every night to prepare.  We will continue practice during the week at school and you will bring home flash cards on Tuesday night, a practice test on Wednesday, and we will play a review game on Thursday!  Go back and do any of the online activities on this website since Halloween (October 31st) to help prepare.

    1. Plate tectonics review with videos
    2. Geology review
    3. 12 Studyjams videos about all topics in our unit

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