I hope you have all had a wonderful and restful spring break! I have been back to school and we will be ready to roll first thing Monday morning!
Reading: We will start reading the book CRASH by, Jerry Spinelli. It is an excellent book that will help us understand and apply the concepts of character development and sequence of events. I have read this book every year and it is one of my favorites. We will have minimal questions with this book, lots of reflection and conversation with a culmination project at the end.
Writing: We will continue to work on the SBAC we started before spring break started. We will read our second passage and answer the questions that go with it. Then we will answer performance task type of questions that will ask them to pull information out of those two texts. This is the same format as the SBAC practice they showed you at student led conference and I am confident that with the feedback and rewrites from the first one that they will be successful navigating through.
Social Studies: We are starting to work on some civics standards this week. We will cover quite a few different standards. We will be teaching these in mini lessons and I think they will really enjoy the week.
Three branches of government
They will take and then research the questions from the Citizenship test
The role of the courts
Analyzing the purpose of The Pledge of Allegiance
Why we celebrate Nevada Day
Defining and understanding Democracy
Laws, rules and regulations
We are also planning on a few guest speakers as well. I am looking forward to seeing the children and hearing about their week. We will be busy making sure we are prepared for our testing days and making sure our standards have been covered. We will finish strong and work right up until the end! Preparing for middle school best we can!
