Our week in learning 3/5

The last week of the quarter is here, and it is looking to be a busy one! This week,
students will take a math quiz and a math test; recite "I Hear America Singing"; take
a cumulative roots test; write an essay about a character in The Secret Garden; act out
a play about George Washington Carver's life; and, of course, attend a field trip to the
 Renaissance Festival!

In science this week, students will read about the life of inventor George Washington 
Carver, who found hundreds of uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes. Thursday and 
Friday will be spent rehearsing and performing a short play centering around 
Mr. Carver’s life. Each student will have the opportunity to act in one scene of the 
play in front of the rest of the class.

This week in history, students will continue learning about the Civil War. Students 
will be learning about the Abraham Lincoln, the Underground Railroad, and the start 
of the Civil War. On Wednesday, we will watch a short History Channel video on 
John Brown that does contain some violent content. Students will finish learning 
about pre-Civil War material before break and have a short quiz over the notes in 
their foldables. We will do an activity on Thursday where students create quizzes 
and turn them in. I will then create a quiz using some of their questions. Their very 
short quiz will take place on Friday, 3/9. Students can be sure that only material 
from the foldables will be used on the short quiz.  


In math this week, we will finish their unit on percentages. We will practice finding 
a percentage of a whole and word problems. We will take a short math test over 
this material on Friday.  There will be no math groups for the rest of the quarter. 
We will begin with math groups again in quarter 4.