Week of January 30 - Feb 1

Happy Wacky Wednesday :)

I apologize for the late entry into our week, but we took off with a bang and haven't slowed down a bit :)
Announcements:

• There is no Current Event assigned for this week.
• We will be having a Valentine Exchange for Valentine's Day on Tuesday, 2/14. We will be celebrating our friendships by exchanging Valentine's Day cards with our homeroom. Cards can be bought or homemade. This is an optional activity. If your child chooses to participate, please have them prepare a valentine for all of their homeroom classmates. Your child is coming home with a class list this afternoon. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch.

Monday - ELA Focus
     The students worked on completing summary plot worksheets for Chapters 9 - 11 in Hatchet.

Tuesday - SS Focus
     We worked on the location, climate, natural resources, and population of Mexico and Brazil. We completed textbook book as well that further highlighted the physical geography of Latin America.

Wednesday - ELA Focus
      The students worked in small groups further analyzing Chapters 1 - 11in Hatchet in order to remind us of our Essential Question: What happens to Brian from a dependent city boy to a self-reliant young man? This will be answered at the end of the novel in a 5-paragraph essay.
      We also returned to a practice essay in which we compared Skittles to Hershey Kisses and are working as a class to compose a compare/contrast essay.  This will be a practice piece that will help the students with their Hatchet essays.

Thursday - SS Focus
     We worked on the location, climate, natural resources, and population of Brazil and Cuba. Students will complete a compare/contrast chart on the three countries in the areas we studied.

Friday - ELA Focus
     The students will take a quiz on Chapters 9 - 11.  We will continue working on the compare/contrast essay on Skittles and Hershey Kisses as a class.