🐒This week in Language Arts we will continue reading an excerpt from Jane Goodall’s autobiography, My Life With the Chimpanzees. In this autobiography Goodall describes her first few months observing chimpanzees in the wild. We will hear about the challenges she had to overcome in order to observe the chimps up close. This selection takes a nuanced and clear-eyed view of chimpanzees, revealing how they are both similar to and different from humans. More broadly, it shows how hard work and dedication to a task - in Goodall’s case, research - can pay off.
📝In this lesson students will:
Determine the central idea of a text.
Determine an author’s purpose.
Read and comprehend literary nonfiction.
Cite textual evidence to support inferences.
Provide a summary of the text.
Conduct a short research project.
Use intensive pronouns.
Write explanatory texts.
📖Homework:
15-20 minutes of reading from a book of their choice
Work that students are unable to complete during class should be completed as homework.
🎧Please make sure that your child has a set of headphones that can stay at school.
🌐 Wow! What a great week in Science class. We have talked about altitude, elevation, latitude, longitude, etc. We know how to prove the Earth is round using the horizon and point of view or even the Earth's shadow on the moon.
☀️Next week is going to be just as exciting. We will be talking about day and night, looking at why we have seasons and even participating in some hands-on demonstrations explaining different phenomena in our Solar System.
📌 This is a lot of information so please just remind your child to be prepared for their quiz every Friday. Thanks and have a wonderful week!
🗺️ This week, we will continue our introduction to geography and exploring the world on a large scale. Students are working to identify and label the seven continents and five main oceans on a map. They should be studying this until they have gained mastery, as it will be something they are expected to do on our first quiz (more details on that to come).
🌎 Our topics for the week are:
- Our World's Continents and Oceans
- Geographic Tools
- The U.S. Constitution ⬇️
🦅Tuesday, September 17th is Constitution Day! Constitution Day commemorates the signing of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787. On this day, students all over the country take a pause from their regularly scheduled studies to spend a day engaging in lessons and activities about our constitution and its significance.
