Technology and Exploration

Go to the following link to learn about technologies that inspired exploration long ago.
https://www.tes.com/lessons/_5Nt1ciGaIqYFg/technology-in-the-age-of-exploration

Idioms and Native American Cultural Regions

This week we studied the cultural regions of Native Americans.We had to guess which Native American houses existed in which regions based on their natural recources. It was SUPER FUN and we got to use Chromebooks.

 

 

 

                                                  

 

We also learned about idioms this week and we got to write a Halloween story using idioms. The Halloween stories were so fun because we turned down the lights and listened to creepy music while we wrote. Mrs. Whitley even tried to pull a prank on us to spook us! I bet this will be the icing on your cake today.

 

 

   

Blendspaces for Native Americans

Blendspace for Northwest Coast Native Americans
https://www.tes.com/lessons/GeFXmjaz3EfJFw/copy-of-northwest-coast-native-americans

Blendspace for the California-Intermountain Range Native Americans
https://www.tes.com/lessons/C6Wk0x6PHXfYIA/native-americans-of-the-california-intermountain-range

Blendspace for the Southwest Native Americans
https://www.tes.com/lessons/pHWylWwrKzAhdg/copy-of-southwest-native-americans

Blendspace for the Plateau
https://www.tes.com/lessons/sLejeAVUqvixfQ/the-native-americans-of-the-plateau

Blendspace for the Great Plains Native Americans
https://www.tes.com/lessons/oi5JKQSvMM6IEg/native-americans-of-the-great-plains

Blendspace for the Eastern Woodlands
https://www.tes.com/lessons/kiSXOHTlt7sJ6w/eastern-woodlands

Blendspace for Native Americans of the Southeast
https://www.tes.com/lessons/LOalgHuREjnTMA/native-americans-of-the-southeast

Week of October 2nd

Dates to Know

Friday, 9/29: Field trip to Farnsley-Moremen Landing

Monday, 10/16: Fall Festival 6-8pm

Thursday, 10/19: No School (Teacher Work Day)

Friday, 10/20-10/27: Fall Break (No School)

 

Regions/World Map Quiz

Several students needed extra practice on either the regions, the world map, or both from our previous social studies test. Please check your child’s take home folder tonight. If your child needs extra practice, I’ve included a simple study guide to help them. Please help them prepare for a quiz this Wednesday. *If your child does not have this in his/her take home folder, a quiz will not be given to him/her on Wednesday, but an alternate activity will be offered. 

 

Conferences

This year we are having a Parent-Teacher Conference Day rather than doing them after school. Therefore, I will be here from 8am-4pm on Monday, November 6th hosting conferences. Please sign up for one time slot per family. We have 28 kids in class so I can only host one conference per family. There simply isn't enough time to schedule multiple conferences for one student. If you are unable to make it to conferences on this day, please send me an email and we can schedule a phone conference. I hope everyone is able to sign up and I look forward to meeting with each of you! Please use the Sign Up Genius to select a time slot for your child’s fall conference:   http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e094aa4a92da5f85-fall

 

Field Trip

We had a blast on the field trip today! The kids seemed really excited to learn about archaeology! They enjoyed digging at the site, making their own bricks, and even touring the old home. Check out the photo link below (courtesy of Holly Miller) and ask your kiddos about the trip!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5xb81adqe0evoui/AADC3GazOS_TjxhvST0cXr_ya?dl=0

 

Class Pumpkin

Once again it’s that time of year to decorate a pumpkin for our class! I will brainstorm with the kiddos today and if you have some ideas please send them my way. I would love some parents volunteers to come in and help us decorate in the afternoon next Thursday, October 12^th!

 

Substitute Next Monday & Tuesday

Just a heads up that I will have a sub next Monday and Tuesday because I will be out of town at a conference graciously sponsored by the PTA called Get Your Teach On. My friend, Jill McClay has been subbing for years and she will be stepping in for me on those two days. I am so excited for this opportunity to learn new and exciting ways to engage students in learning and I plan to bring a lot of new ideas back to share with the teachers. If you need to reach me, please contact me prior to this Sunday or after Tuesday of next week. Thank you!

 

Our Guiding Questions for the Week:

7 Habits: How do I set wildly important goals (W.I.G.s)?

Math: do I use the order of operations? How do I interpret mathematical expressions?

Social Studies: How did Native Americans adapt to various environments? What are the unique characteristics of the Native American cultural regions?

Reading: What are idioms, adages, and proverbs?

Writing: How do I use figurative language in my writing?

 

Have a wonderful week! J

Native Americans Blendspace

Use this Blendspace to fill in your graphic organizer about natural resources used by the Inuit.


https://www.tes.com/lessons/MdGRIduq6jCrog/the-inuit-tribe.

Fun week

This week was awesome we synergized  together with  a person that we haven't really hung out with a lot  and we figured out our similarities and differences with a Venn Diagram. Then we figured out we weren't so different after all!😊

   This week we had to write about emojis and their view of life. It was super fun. We got a prompt had to write about it with an emoji sticker. #Emoji 😎😍😃😘😜🤓😎☺️😊 This helped us to practice using the trait of voice in our writing.

We had also had a Crazy Hair and PJ day. 😋 We earned this because of all of our donations to Tiger Trek! 

 

  

Region researching

This week we reserched on different regions. We worked very hard and hope to continue that.🤓

We worked on murals. We made different regions including the Northeast, the Southeast, and the Midwest.

Our teacher made this activity so much fun! We love our teacher!😘

 

 

This is one of our murals. They were so much fun! We all had a blast!😋