We are starting our chapel service religion unit. I’m not sure if we will have an actual chapel service like previous years. However, we’re still pushing through. Our chapel service unit typically ties in with the church's canned food drive, So, we are focusing on hunger, poverty, and what the Bible says about those who are in need. The main focus is for them to walk away understanding how God feels about those who are in need, and what he wants us to do as his children. This unit tends to be a fun one, and one that sticks with them.
The memory verses for this unit comes from The Beatitudes, which is Matthew chapter 5. We are starting with verses 3-5. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth.” This will be due on October 20. Math: As explained in our last newsletter, we are moving into a new topic. We will spend a great deal of time with this topic as it introduces two new properties, which are very challenging. We are starting the topic off by learning about the distributive property of multiplication. We will spend about 3 days focusing on that before we move into learning about the remaining factors. In the previous topic, we covered 0,1,2,5,9,and 10. In this topic, we will cover 3,4,6,7,8. Multiplying with these factors tend to be a little harder than the others, so I encourage you to start throwing those factors into the flashcard pile. Reading: We are learning about inventions and biographies this week. We’ve already read one biography, Chester Greenwood, and his cold ears, and we learned that he invented earmuffs. The essential question for the week is “How can problem-solving lead to new ideas?” We discussed this question while looking at a picture of a boy using a robot to feed himself cereal. It was pretty entertaining to hear them try to think of “problems,” the boy may have faced that caused him to invent such a robot. We will talk about cause and effect and how there is always an effect of an action. We talked about cause and effect briefly today and that brought us back to our essential question and led to a good discussion about how problem-solving is the cause and the new idea is the effect. Writing: We will finish with our paragraph unit this Friday before we move into one of our longer pieces. Our next unit will be a “How-to” essay. More details on that will come out as we prepare to move into that unit. Science: We have finished the last lesson in our first science chapter. So we will move into the reviewing stages this week. We will also work on creating the final product of our pinball machines. I am looking forward to seeing their designs come to “life,” even if they’re on paper. The science test is slated to be next Tuesday. The date could change if we need more time to review. Social Studies; We are almost done with our Hispanic Heritage Month unit along with our first social studies unit. We will wrap up our Hispanic Heritage Month unit this Friday with the students doing presentations on the last four countries that we’re covering. We will then wrap up our social studies lesson and move into the reviewing stages. The social studies test is slated to be next Friday. However, like science, the date can change if we need more time to review. Important Dates;
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