Week of 2/20/23-2/24/23

I hope everyone enjoyed their President’s Day and hopefully enjoyed the beautiful weather!   Here is our schedule for the week:

Monday: NO SCHOOL-PRESIDENT’S DAY

Tuesday: read 20 minutes, study spelling words, Girls basketball game 6:30 pm

Wednesday: read 20 minutes, study spelling words, Camp Read-A-Lot from 5-6:30 pm

Thursday: read 20 minutes, study spelling words

Friday: PICTURE DAY, read 20 minutes, spelling test, Boys basketball game 7:30 pm, chess club

ELA: We have completed our novel, “Clean Getaway” and will get back into our MyView text focusing on Tall Tales this week.  We will learn the structure of Tall Tales and then discuss the theme found in our Tall Tale, “Thunder Rose”.  Students can practice below:

  1. Animated Tall Tales videos
  2. Theme online game
  3. Theme video lesson

Science: This week we will continue our work with circuits by adding a switch, motor, and speaker to our circuit.  We will learn that switches open and close circuits.

  1.  Circuit Simulator with Switch
  2. Circuit and Switches video
  3. Conductors and Insulators

Spelling:  Our words this week include the Greek root “auto” meaning “self” and the root “trans” meaning  “across”:

automobile

automatic

autopilot

automation

autocracy

autonomous

autoimmune

transparent

transit

transfer

You can practice the words at Spelling City and Spelling Training.

 

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