Dear Parents,

We had a very productive and exciting week in 3C!  We have another great week ahead.  Below is an update about what we will be covering next week.  Please reach out to me with any questions!

Best,

Ms. Caro :)

Language Arts: We continue our journey into Narnia and thoroughly enjoying ourselves! The study guide for the Ch 1-10 test will go home on Monday. Grammar will be more diagramming of sentences with compound verbs and subject nouns. In Spalding we will have 30 words on our list.

Science: This week in science, students are continuing their discovery of the universe. On Monday, students will consider tides and how the moon, and sun to a lesser degree, impact their coming in an going out. On Wednesday, the students will be introduced to the planets and other objects of the solar system. This lesson will set the stage for the museum days in which students will learn from one another by taking notes from the project posters. On Thursday, students will travel outside to the south part of the campus to consider a scale model of the solar system. The aim on this day will be for students to consider the great size of the universe and how we are relatively small by comparison. Thursday is also the due date for the project. On Friday, we will begin the student project museum activity, where students will walk around the room to learn about the objects of the solar system from the efforts of their peers. This activity will continue into week five, as only ten students will present each day.

Math: In math this week, the students will be considering shapes, with a focus on perimeter. Students will review previously learned shapes and be introduced to others, with the goal of being able to identify regular and irregular shapes with three to ten sides. They will finish the week by discussing how shapes can have the same perimeter, but different area and vise versa. Wednesday will have a little bit of a different focus, as the students will be considering patters in mathematics. 

History: This we we will be discussing the colonies of Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia. We will be covering the difficult concept of slavery and the plantation system. See last week’s blog post for more detailed information on this topic. On Monday students will be given a study guide. We will not have covered everything on the study guide yet, but we wanted to give students plenty of time to study for this assessment. The study guide is due on Monday 4/25and the test will be on Monday 5/2.