The Stars Of Tomorrow!

The Stars Of Tomorrow!

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Monday, 27 October 2008

Week beginning October 27th

A Preview of the Week
Here is a weekly preview of what we are studying during the week!

Week Beginning: October 27th 2008

Reading

Unit: Monitoring Comprehension
Noticing when you lose your way – monitoring your inner voice to focus your thinking.
- Using an article entitled ‘Stealing Beauty’ by Hannah Beech. This is a piece of adult text to show how we can go back to repair comprehension and refocus our thinking.
- Using a variety of reading texts to practice the skill of puzzling through text in order to understand our reading.

Using level-appropriate novels to enjoy reading.

Writing
Writing Techniques - Newspaper Articles – How to write a successful article.
Grammar/Usage - Nouns, Singular & Plural Nouns, Singular Possessive Nouns
Plural Possessive Nouns

Math

Unit 2: Algebra, Data & Graphing
- Expressions & variables
- Write Equations
- Solve Equations


Social Studies
World Geography

- Continue challenges in ‘Caravans’
- Complete Caravan’s unit with a ‘Mapping Of an Imaginary Country’ clay model.


Science

How Living Things Interact
- How Does Energy Flow Through an Ecosystem?
- Investigate what eats what in ecosystems
- Learn about how energy is transferred in an ecosystem


Spelling/Vocab
Science Words


Fun / Social
- Pumpkin Carving for our assembly on Friday.
- Halloween Witch Hip Hop Rap - Practice for our assembly on Friday
- ‘Free To Be You & Me’ Song - Practice for our UN Day performance on November 5th


“Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss you will land among the stars!”-Les Brown

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