December News

 

 

 

Language Arts

 

 

 

Our class is learning about main idea and details as they study nonfiction. Students have had opportunities to read paragraphs and articles in which they must determine the main idea.  Moreover, students have learned that the main idea may be at the beginning of a paragraph, at the end, or it may be inferred.

 

                                     

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

Students are in the process of learning to take notes in order to write a research report on the Plains Native Americans.  With the background knowledge students have gained from reading nonfiction text, they will incorporate that along with their understanding of main idea and detail to read, take notes and write a report about the way of living, clothes, food, and people of the Plains.

 

                                   

 

 

Students are undertaking the concept of measurement and geometry in our next unit in math.  Students are learning about perimeter.  They have measured various objects in the classroom and will calculate the perimeter of the objects.

              

                         

 

Students will follow this concept with learning about area.  Then students will determine how to calculate the area of a two dimensional shape.

 

               

 

Students are studying the Plains Native Americans in social studies.  They are learning about the location, way of living, food source, home and jobs of these people.