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Over the next three weeks, our class will build their knowledge about 
the history and current practice of voting in the United States by 
reading book excerpts, magazines, and listening to and reading a 
speech. They will learn about historical figures, such as Susan B. 
Anthony, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, and our 36th President, Lyndon 
Baines Johnson.

 

Mrs. Lousnbury 

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I hope you had a wonderful weekend. We will be focusing on finishing our Science Fiction Stories. We will also be taking the Reading MAPS this week. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury

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This week Students will be taking their Language Arts CMAS. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

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This week students will be creating games in groups to teach the first-grade students on Thursday the 20th. Students will be given standards to teach teh younger students to do in their game. 

 

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This week we will be continuing our unit on Sports! Students will be writing an essay about their hero's and what attributes they have. We will also be focusing on theme in our texts. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

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Over the next three weeks, our class will build their knowledge about 
sports and competition, with a focus on the opinion text genre. We 
will read nonfiction book excerpts and essays that discuss the variety 
of sports that we pursue, the personal qualities of great athletes, and 
what it means to be a good sport. There is an additional feature on 
sports poetry.

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

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This week students will be completing their research essay. We will be reading a personal narrative and comparing facts and opinions from the text.

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

 

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This week we will be learning about the different types of figurative language. Students will also be looking into poetic terms. Students will organize their research into a 5 paragraph essay. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

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This week we will begin our 7th module. Students will be reading about exploring and protecting the ocean. They will also be finalizing their argumentative essays from previous weeks. 

 

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This week students will be reading about traveling to Mars. They will be forming arguments based on a text they read. They will make a claim and provide evidence. They will rebuttal a counter claim and restate their claim.

 

Mrs. Lounsbury

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I hope you all were warm over the very cold weekend. Today in Language Arts students will continue to form arguments and find details from a text to back up their arguments. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury

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I hope you had a wonderful break!  This week we will be reading informational texts about Space. We will be inferencing meaning for content related vocabulary. We will also begin working on writing an argumentative essay. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

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This week students will be completing their biographies. We will also be discussing the difference between Historical Fiction and Biographies while reading texts on Sacagawea and Paul Revere. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

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This week we will be discussing strategies for reading complex texts. We we will also be starting to draft biographies. Students will learn how to quote a person in their text. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury