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Reading: I will be working with my students on two different novels. One group will be enjoying the novel, How to Eat Fried Worms. When Billy is dared to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days by his friend Alan, he isn’t sure he should do it. But the promise of $50.00 is too much to resist. Billy wants the money so he can buy a minibike. He starts eating worms and it looks like winning the bet will actually be pretty easy. However, his friend Alan has some tricks up his sleeve, and soon winning the bet doesn’t look easy at all. Will Billy be able to do it?
My other group will be discussing the novel, Tuck Everlasting. A ten year-old Winnie Foster and the Tuck family are brought together by a spring of water that gives eternal life. Winnie faces many decisions such as running away and if she can keep a secret that if told, could change life for everyone in Treegap and beyond.
Math: We are continuing to work on probability. The children will be able to design experiments and list all possible outcomes and probabilities for an event. The study of probability helps us figure out the likelihood of something happening. For instance, when you roll a pair of dice, you might ask how likely you are to roll a seven. In math, we call the "something happening" an "event."
The probability of the occurrence of an event can be expressed as a fraction or a decimal from 0 to 1. Events that are unlikely will have a probability near 0, and events that are likely to happen have probabilities near 1.
In any probability problem, it is very important to identify all the different outcomes that could occur. For instance, in the question about the dice, you must figure out all the different ways the dice could land, and all the different ways you could roll a seven.
Language Arts: We are designing our own, personal writer’s notebooks and collecting “seeds” that we can write about later. We are learning that writers write about their favorite places, special people, special memories, and special treasures! We also learned that WE are authors, too!!
After the EOG Testing period, my class will begin conducting research and creating power point presentations about the lighthouses of North Carolina. Each child will search the Internet for information about a lighthouse and then create and design the power point slides.
Social Studies: We will be tracing the history of colonization in North Carolina and evaluating its significance for diverse people’s ideas. My students will be able to:
*Locate and describe American Indians in North Carolina, past and present
*Assess changes in the ways of living over time and determine whether the changes are primarily political, economic, or social
*Identify people, symbols, events, and documents associated with North Carolina’s history
*Examine the Lost Colony and explain its importance in the settlement of North Carolina
*Describe the political and social history of colonial North Carolina and analyze its influence on the state today
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