Cluster 3

Hat's off to all students as we completed our final drafts of our Where I'm From poems! And exploring the present day regions of India and Monsoon Asia! Just to name a few...

Conferences

We hope to see you at day & night conferences starting this Thursday.

The schedule is as follows:

Thursday, October 27
1:00 - 3:00 PM ON ZOOM (Zoom link will be provided before the conference.)
5:00 - 7:00 PM IN PERSON AT WMS

Tuesday, November 1
1:00 - 3:00 PM IN PERSON AT WMS
6:00 - 8:00 PM ON ZOOM (Zoom link will be provided before the conference.)

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Have a great rest of October! From all of us in Cluster 3

Reading Classes

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Ms. Sorenson's Reading Class

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Specialists including the Library, World Languages, and PM's

The Specialist S'more

Hello!

This week we started Unit 2 on Proportional Relationships.

By the end of next week we will be having our first quiz on the first 7 lessons of Unit 2.

• Lesson 1 explains what equivalent ratios mean in the context of paint mixtures and has students use equivalent ratios to generate the same color paints.
• Lesson 2 helps students identify patterns in tables that represent proportional relationships and shows them how to use a table to calculate unknown quantities in a proportional relationship.
• Lesson 3 has students determine the constant of proportionality (C.O.P) for a proportional relationship represented in a table and explain what it means. They will use the constant of proportionality to calculate unknown information in a table and justify whether a table represents a proportional relationship or not.
• Lesson 4 explains that when the value of one quantity in a proportional relationship is 1, the other quantity is the constant of proportionality. Students will also learn to write equations to represent proportional relationships.

Next week we will begin Lessons 5 through 7.

• Lesson 5 will connect each part of an equation of the form y=kx to the situation it represents and then have students use an equation to solve problems involving a proportional relationship.
• Lesson 6 uses the word reciprocal to explain the relationship between the two constants of proportionality in a proportional relationship. Students will then write two equations that represent the same proportional relationship (y=kx and x=1/ky).
• Lesson 7 focuses on how to justify whether a relationship is proportional or not by looking at the structure of an equation.

- I can interpret thematic maps and charts/graphs.

This week we examined how physical features of the Earth impact where and how people live For instance, most of the population of the U.S. lives in the eastern half of the country because the land is flatter and more suitable for human settlement. We also looked at Africa and South America to make some predictions about where people live or why people live in certain areas and not others. We then started looking more closely at the physical features of India to be able to predict where the first civilizations in this area of the world arose. We will finish this work early next week and then look at some artifacts from these early Indian civilizations to see what we can learn from them. We will be focusing on India for the next few weeks before moving on to ancient China.

Entering (ELD 1)

This week, we learned how to give orders using the imperative tense: “Sit! Cut! Wash! Walk!” and connected this to explain how to make meals and snacks. We also used mathematical vocabulary such as circular, triangular, and rectangular to describe food.

Next week, students will use their knowledge of explanation and description to create a video. In the video, students will speak, show, and write up the steps to creating a recipe.

Emerging (ELD 2)

This week we finished our unit on cause and effect and are learning about writing a friendly email. Our passage of the week was called Dog Detectives, and it was about how dogs help emergency workers. Next week we will begin learning about irregular present tense verbs.

Phonics

This week we worked on short o and our new high frequency words. Next week we will work with the short i sound, start new high frequency words, and work with Ms. Spillert to do a project on Bookcreator.

Developing (ELD 3)

Over the past week we worked on prepositional phrases and how they act to connect ideas in a story. We also read fables together working in pairs while practicing making summaries of what was read. We learned about using the past tense to convey meaning and practiced irregular verbs. For next week, we look forward to beginning work on comparing and contrasting the structure and meaning of a work of fiction across texts.

Expanding (ELD 4)

After giving kind, specific, and helpful feedback to their fellow poets, students are working on their second drafts of their Where I’m From poems. Next week they will explore Kwame Alexander’s poem Here’s What I Remember to practice making observations and inferences–vocabulary and skills which they use in science and social studies. By the end of next week, students will finalize their poems and publish them in Book Creator, a multimedia digital book-making tool. We hope to be able to share them with you during conferences!

English classes presented their poems in a beautiful gallery walk where kids had a chance to read and comment on classmates' poems.

Students enjoyed the positive feedback they got on their hard work!

This week we started a short story unit. Classes will read a story together each week and then work in smaller groups with a different stories to practice the following skills:

• Using signpost reading strategies to help determine important parts of the stories
• Identifying how characters's actions influence other characters
• Understanding how setting influences character actions and conflicts
• Noticing topics that come up again and again
• Evaluating character growth and change and what lessons characters learn
• Determining author's themes

-Science -

This past week we wrapped up "Human Body Organization", and started the long journey into the digestive system.

Learning Targets:

• I CAN develop a model to describe the food is arranged through chemical reactions forming new materials that support growth and release energy as matter travels through the human body.

• I CAN identify the main functions of the digestive system and how it is structured. Identify the main organs
  associated with this system.
  

• I CAN explain the levels of Human Body organization

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