Week in Review

Math: Review of Area and Perimeter. It is important that we take time to make sure everyone can find the area and perimeter of rectangles because we will be moving into volume next week!

Area and Perimeter Review Games:
Zoo Designer

Square Off

Shape Surveyor

Reading: Continued work on quoting accurately to support our answers to questions. We used the text "Vikings and European Explorers: Shipbuilding and Warfare". All students were tested using Lexia. Lexia will be used for all students who do not test out of the 5th grade level. Most students will complete about 40 minutes a week of Lexia (10 min/day or 20 min/2 x a week). 

Writing: We are in the super fun stage of revision on our Native American journal entries! This week we worked on new beginnings and endings, and adding dialogue to our entries. 

Social Studies: We are learning about European Explorers. We worked in partners to read and take notes about one explorer, then combined with another group who studied the same explorer to compare notes. As a group, students completed an explorer ship with information about the explorer they studied and shared out with the group. We talked about the idea of the "New World"; how it wasn't really a new world because people were already living here, and how the European explorers we studied may not have actually been the explorers to land in North and South America. 

**Keep practicing those U.S. states! 

Science: In science we are learning about variables. We are using a swinger experiment to help us practice using a standard for our experiment and to help us test changing the variable in an experiment.