This WeekIn Spalding we will be jumping to list "P" because your scholars have demonstrated excellence in following the Spalding method to solve words. You should expect Spalding homework to come home on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night. The spelling test will be on Friday. In English Language Arts we will be reviewing all that we have learned about nouns and pronouns and also starting to write our own summaries, but in groups. This week we will be reading and summarizing an informational text about Leonardo Da Vinci. In Mathematics we are diving into the world of multiplication and division. We will be studying factors and multiples throughout the week, but we will have a quiz on Tuesday that only assesses student understanding of rounding and multiples. In Literature we will be reading about the exploits of Sir Gawain and then seminaring on what it is about him that makes him such a great knight. Be sure to ask your students what you think their opinion is and have them answer in complete sentences! In History we will be learning about the Magna Carta and the seeds of democratic government that would spring from it. Ask your students why the Magna Carta was written and why it is so important to the history of our own country. In Science we will be starting our unit on electricity! This is a super exciting unit that will involve a lot of projects. Your students should be bringing a few of those projects home in the coming weeks. Don't forget to ask them to explain to you how electricity works. The greatest gift we can give to our students is to let them, for a moment, be the teachers. Upcoming Assessments1, Math quiz on Tuesday that will go over rounding and finding multiples. 2. History test on Wednesday that will cover everything we have learned from Charlemagne to the Model parliament we will learn about today. 3. Spelling test on Friday on the 30 words we studied this week. 4. Seminar on Sir Gawain this Friday. Other announcementsWe have gone through a slight schedule shift in order to change how we teach science and history. Starting next week science and history will be taught alternatively every other day. In order to make this work we have moved science and history to the end of the day, and brought English Language Arts to the beginning of the day. This will not effect the content level of any of your students' other classes.
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