Our week in learning 2/5

A short, but important, week has arrived: We are now in the middle of the third quarter!

This week in language arts, students will present their explorer reports in history on

 Monday and Tuesday mornings. Posters should be brought to class on Monday.

Students will review past grammar skills and add a new skill to their notebooks: 

predicate adjectives! Predicate adjectives are adjectives occurring in the sentence 

predicate that describe the subject of the sentence. They follow a linking verb.

Ex: Betty is nice. “Nice” is a predicate adjective.

Students will have a brief quiz over this skill on Wednesday morning.

In literature, students will continue reading up to chapter 19 of the Secret Garden. 

In science this week, students will learn about gymnosperms, which are seeds that

 are commonly found in pine cones, and their pollination and fertilization. They will 

have the opportunity to read about gymnosperms in two articles and answer questions 

about them. 

In math this week, we will continue learning about decimals. Students will divide 
decimals by 2-digit whole numbers by the decimal 0.1 and 0.01, and divide a decimal
 by another decimal. Graph paper is very helpful to line up decimals and keep their 
work organized. We will be using some in class, but it might be useful to have some 
at home to use with homework. Math groups will be this Wednesday, 8:00-9:00. On Friday,
there will be a decimal unit test.

This week in history, students will continue learning about Westward Expansion before
 the Civil War. Students will learn about Tecumseh and what he did for Native Americans 
in the early 1800’s, improvements in transportation, and the idea of Manifest Destiny.