Monday, October 1st

ELA - We read chapter 9 in The Giver and discussed some of the important details about setting.  Students also received a list of this week's vocabulary words to take home and study.

Math - Students took a short quiz on rounding and ordering decimals.  Afterwards students took notes on the steps to adding and subtracting decimals.  For the rest of the week I'll be focusing on reviewing previously taught concepts to students who need it and I'll be teaching students how to model the multiplication of decimals.

If you have not done so yet, PLEASE purchase some multiplication and division flashcards for your child.  Many of my students (like 20 out of 28) are still using their fingers to calculate basic multiplication so they need to get those skills down if they are going to be successful in my class and in middle school.

Social Studies - Students began working on a packet that covers the following Georgia Performance Standard:

SS5H1 The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War.

a. Identify Uncle Tom’s Cabin and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, and explain how each of these events was related to the Civil War.
b. Discuss how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased tensions between the North and South.

c. Identify major battles and campaigns: Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Appomattox Court House.

d. Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

e. Describe the effects of war on the North and South.

Students will have all week to complete the packet and they will be able to use it when taking the assessment.  Needless to say, the assessment will be rigorous and they will be required to answer several short essay questions.  The packet has EVERYTHING they need to know and the assessment will occur sometime next week (probably on Thursday, October 11th).