Turkey Trot: The annual Coronado Turkey Trot will be this Friday, November 17. As the leaders of the school, 5th grade will be helping younger students get warmed up and guide them to the starting line on time. We will then encourage runners along the course. The Turkey Trot honors wellness and time as a community, gives us an opportunity to focus on gratitude, and provides an opportunity to spread kindness. To achieve the latter, Coronado students can donate new socks (child or adult sizes) for those in need during this chilly season. We will be collecting through Friday.
Here’s what we’ve been studying:
Math: We just finished our geometry unit and are wrapping up this week with either an extension activity related to graphing constellations and finding perimeter and area, or reviewing some area skills before we move into operations with whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
Literacy: We are working on using text features and close reading strategies in nonfiction to find main idea, supporting details, author’s purpose, and supporting claims with evidence. The texts we are using are related to our social studies unit on Colonial America. Right now we are learning about the real Pilgrims in contrast to the romanticised version we see at Thanksgiving. Students are finding evidence that supports the reasons the colony of Massachusetts was founded.
Writing: As we study text features we are applying them in procedural writing. Students are teaching their readers about various topics of interest. We are working to introduce the subject, organize the procedural steps in a logical manner, and use prepositional phrases to bring clarity to our writing. We are also creating text features like pictures, captions, text boxes, glossaries and more.
Science: We recently learned about the water cycle. This week we started learning about latitude and longitude as it might relate to seasons and weather patterns that we can predict on a global scale.
Social Studies: We are looking at common factors that brought about the colonization of the 13 American colonies. We have learned that in general, the New England colonies were founded for religious freedom while the Mid Atlantic and Southern Colonies started for economic reasons.
Here’s what we’ve been studying:
Math: We just finished our geometry unit and are wrapping up this week with either an extension activity related to graphing constellations and finding perimeter and area, or reviewing some area skills before we move into operations with whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
Literacy: We are working on using text features and close reading strategies in nonfiction to find main idea, supporting details, author’s purpose, and supporting claims with evidence. The texts we are using are related to our social studies unit on Colonial America. Right now we are learning about the real Pilgrims in contrast to the romanticised version we see at Thanksgiving. Students are finding evidence that supports the reasons the colony of Massachusetts was founded.
Writing: As we study text features we are applying them in procedural writing. Students are teaching their readers about various topics of interest. We are working to introduce the subject, organize the procedural steps in a logical manner, and use prepositional phrases to bring clarity to our writing. We are also creating text features like pictures, captions, text boxes, glossaries and more.
Science: We recently learned about the water cycle. This week we started learning about latitude and longitude as it might relate to seasons and weather patterns that we can predict on a global scale.
Social Studies: We are looking at common factors that brought about the colonization of the 13 American colonies. We have learned that in general, the New England colonies were founded for religious freedom while the Mid Atlantic and Southern Colonies started for economic reasons.