Weekly Preview 10th November 2008

Week Beginning: November 10th 2008

Reading
Unit: Monitoring Comprehension
- Read, Write & talk – thinking your way through a text
Using an article entitled ‘A Focus On Girl’s Education’ from Time For Kids. This is an article about the disparity between girls’ and boys’ education dealing with fairness & inequality. This has been chosen so that the students will have many thoughts and opinions on the matter and will hopefully spur lively conversation.
- Using a variety of reading texts to practice the skill of purposefully talking and writing about what they have read.

Writing
Writing Techniques
- Continue newspaper article skills and working on IT skills using ‘Publisher’.
Grammar/Usage
- Nouns
- Single and plural nouns
- Singular possessive nouns
Plural possessive nouns


Math
Unit 2: Algebra, Data & Graphing
- Write & Evaluate Expressions
- Order of Operations
- Functions


Social Studies
World Geography
- Continue to close up ‘Caravans’ Unit

Science
- How Do Organisms Compete & Survive in an Ecosystem?
- Investigate how body colour helps animals survive using M&M experiment.
- Learn about the ways in which organisms compete.
- What is Extinction & What are its Causes?
- Investigate Vanishing Habitats
- Learn About Extinction & its Causes


Spelling/Vocab
- Science Words

Fun / Social
LS Drama play on Friday
- help make set, props and costumes.