March 16-20, 2015

Clouds-Did you know there were soooo many?

Off to Lakeview to visit the History Fair!

Last day of PARCC testing!!! Yah!

Coming up:

Tues., March 17th-Wear GREEN!!!  It's St. Patty's Day!!! 

Mon., March 23-ASSIGN trimester 3 BOOK PROJECT

Wed., March 25-TGFD's Graduation-PARENTS are invited and encouraged to attend 1:00 in the gym----MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!

Fri., March 27-Naper Settlement Field Trip

Sat., March 28th-Start of Spring Break

ELA-Spelling: Wordly Wise L. 13 is next

Work and test are on Friday the 20th!

The students may print this week, if they want.

  

ELA-Language Arts-Nouns

Unit 3-Verbs-So far we have covered:
Lesson 1-Verbs
Lesson 2-Direct Objects
Lesson 3-Main Verbs and Helping Verbs

ELA-Nature's Fury
We have been introduced to our essential questions for this unit.  
*How can a force of nature that is so far away affect me?
*How can force of nature be both destructive and constructive at the same time?
*What are forces of nature?

Social Studies: Chapter 8:The Road to War

In Chapter 8 -Can you???

Lesson 1: Trouble with Taxes

*British taxes led to greater cooperation among colonies
*Patrick Henry was honest and spoke out against King George III and Britain.

Lesson 2: The Colonists Rebel

*Events in Boston brought Britain and the colonies closer to war
*George Washington learned about hard work, commitment and leadership while working as a surveyor as a young man
*Primary sources can be used to study how people lived and how they felt about important events in their time.

Lesson 3: The Revolution Begins

*The American Revolution began with the battles at Lexington and Concord.

*Bonus Points in SS---by Wed., March 18th...Tell me three 

things you know about any of the bullet points above

 and three things you have questions about!!!

Share with me on the googledoc.!!! :)

Science: Ch. 15-Weather

In Chapter 11 we are learning about:
Lesson 1-What Causes Weather?
Lesson 2-What Conditions Affect the Water Cycle?
Lesson 3-How Can Patterns in Weather Be Observed?

TEST will be next 

Thursday, March 19th!

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Chapter 8-Fractions

Lesson 1-Fractions and Decimals
Lesson 2- Greatest Common Factors
Lesson 3-Simplest Form
Lesson 5-Least Common Multiple
Lesson 6-Compare Fractions
Lesson 8-Write Fractions as Decimals
Lesson 9-Add and Sub Fractions