January 4-6

Happy New Year my wonderful kiddos! Thank you so much for all the amazing and thoughtful presents I received. It was so kind of y’all! I hope you all enjoyed your time with friends and family are now recharged for a new semester! We are starting this New Year with a bang. We have lots to learn, and I cannot wait to teach it all to you!

Objectives:

Math: Area, Perimeter, and Volume.  Here are a couple of videos on how to calculate volume: Volume as Base Area times Height 

Wednesday: Area of triangles and parallelograms

Thursday: Review for Test

Friday: Test on Area and Volume of 2D Shapes

Reading: We will be beginning our Fantasy Unit (Fairytales, Fables, Myths) We will be learning about fairytales from around the world and how different cultures portray the same fairytales we have grown up with differently. They will create a passport book summarizing the different fairytales they read.

Spelling Test and Quizlet on Friday the 13th (next week).

https://quizlet.com/_2x6luh

Science: We will be beginning our Unit on Earth Science   

Study Jams Go to Landforms, Rocks & Minerals: watch Weathering & Erosion video and Landforms video.

Social Studies: Westward Expansion: Why did Americans move west?