Welcome back to the second half of the school year! New on the blog is a subscription by email and the class schedule on the right hand side of the blog. On Fridays, we will continue to send home the black folders and an email from Jupiter will be sent out with any missing assignments. Next weekend is a 3-day weekend for MLK day. There is no school on 01/15.
Academics
This week in math, we will review the concepts we covered in the first semester, including place value, the operations of whole numbers, fractions, operations of fractions, and measurement.
In ELA this week, we will learn about Point of View and begin working on informative and explanatory texts. We will continue to read and discuss Robin Hood, as well as, recite Paul Revere.
This week in history we will begin our study of African Kingdoms. We will focus on the geography of Africa including the countries of Africa as well as major mountains, rivers and other geographic features. We will then begin studying the Kingdoms of the Kush and the Aksum and how these kingdoms impacted Africa.
In science, we will learn about forecasting and climate. We will compare weather and climate. There is a quiz on Tuesday, January 16th.
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