Weekly Update

Announcements:

·                Field Trip to the Hyundai Factory Tuesday, February 10th. This is a great trip!  We are permitted two parent chaperones, so if you'd like to come along with the class, please email me at tchristina@aisch.org  

Permission slips and an information letter will go home this week.  Please note we will be leaving the school promptly at 8:30 due to the long distance to the factory and will return around 3:00-3:15.

·                Visiting author Lauren Stringer will be at AISC February 9th-13th.

·                Mid-Unit Math Assessment--Friday, February 6th

·                Literacy Letter: Due Monday, February 9th

Here is what we are doing this week:

Poetry:

We continue to study and write poetry this week.  Our objectives are:

·                Prepare a “Basho poem” to use a workshop with Lauren Stringer next week.

·                Consider the deeper emotions in some poetry and reflect on emotions we might want to put in our own poetry.

·                Practice proper prosody when reading poetry aloud.  

Book Clubs:  

Most students will finish this round of book clubs this week.  We will have another round of book clubs soon.

Non Fiction Writing Assessment: We will collect some evidence regarding our non-fiction learning objectives. This assessment is summative of all the work we did in our last unit. There is no good way for the students to study; we are hoping to see them use the teaching points we used in class throughout the unit.

Math:  Fractions

Students continue to do well with this unit! This week, we will:

~Order fractions looking at common numerators and common denominators

~Add fractions with common denominators.

~Solve word problems involving fractions.

We will also take a mid-unit assessment on Friday, which covers:

·                Decomposing fractions.

·                Finding equivalent fractions.

·                Comparing fractions.  

Students can review their notes and assignments to study.

Science:  Solar Energy

Students continue to conduct experiments and collect data on solar energy.  On Friday, they observed different Earth materials in the sun.  This week, we will reflect on our data.  We will also think about solar energy and humans, and design experiments with solar houses.