Weekly Updates - Weeks of January 21 and 28

I am going to outline the next two weeks in one post. I apologize for not updating at the end of last week, as I went out of town for the weekend.

Math

Chapter 6 in Everyday Math focuses on Whole Number Operations and Number Stories.

We are working on different strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems, including solving word problems.

This chapter will also introduce the underlying concepts of multiplication and division. We will be working on arrays and sorting items into equal groups.

Language Arts

We are slowly beginning to learn dictionary skills. Guide words are a very hard concept for many students to grasp right away. We are trying to work on putting words in ABC order as a foundation for this.

Reading

At the end of this week we will begin to learn how to infer in our reading.

We will do a "What's in Ms. Perlman's bag" activity this week to infer what different items in my bag might mean about me.

Spelling

Our currently spelling words follow the rule that in a 2 syllable word that ends in a y, the y makes the long e sound.

Science

We will be learning about how the states of matter can change.
Mixtures, evaporation, condensation, and melting will be some of our main focuses.