Week of April 8- April 12

Important Upcoming Dates:

April 12: Milestone Practice Test
April 15: No School


**Helpful Links**

Milestone Practice Guide for Families and Students
Online Milestone Practice

Reading: Students will review context clues, main ideal, theme, and compare and contrast in preparation for Milestones Testing.
                


   

Comparing and contrasting two different stories can help you better understand common topics, patterns of events, and themes in stories from different cultures.

• The topic is the subject of a story.  A common topic in many stories is the struggle between good and evil.
• The pattern of events is what happens in the story. One common pattern of events is the hero’s quest. The main character goes on a journey to achieve a goal or solve a problem.
• The theme of a story is its central idea or message about life. Sometimes the theme is expressed as a moral, or lesson, such as “look before you leap.”

Math:  Students will continue work with decimals.  Students will be converting fractions to decimals and comparing decimals.

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Grammar Students will review parts of speech, quotation marks, and editing, and other skills as practice for the Milestones.

        

       


Writing
Students will continue learning how to analyze a prompt for writing. Students will focus this with an opinion text and learn how to pull evidence from more than one text to support their opinion. This will help them prepare for the Georgia Milestone writing assessment.  Students will also practice for Georgia Milestone writing assessment. 

Science:  Students will continue to learn about the moon and its phases.