Saturday, May 14, 2011

ACADEMICS MAY 16 - 20

READING

Our story, The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin, will continue through to the end of this week. We will continue learning about the many great accomplishments of this famous American statesman, and will be working on a special project to share what we have learned.


Skills include: main idea, making judgments and decisions, following directions, and root words. The selection assessment will be on Friday, May 20th.



ENGLISH

We have just finished learning about subject and object pronouns and will now be moving on to possessive pronouns.


MATH

We are in full swing with our geometry chapter, as we have learned about lines, line segments, rays, angles, triangles, polygons, and quadrilaterals. This week we'll focus on flips, slides, and turns, and then finish up the chapter learning about perimeter, area, and volume.


SOCIAL STUDIES

This week, we are wrapping up our chapter about Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America, as we check out Jamestown Settlement and a Powhatan village.

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