This Week in Room 8 (2-16 through 2-19)

ELA:
Essential Question- What makes a strong leader?

We will...

• Learn about characteristics of good leaders through a wide-range of fiction and non-fiction text. 
• Compare and contrast characters from stories.
• Describe the characters, setting, and events in the stories with great detail. 
• Ask and answer questions about the text. As we answer, we continue to work on restating the question in our answer.
• Include evidence from the text in our response. 
• Introduce the prefixes -un and -re
• Long vowels spelled ai, ay, y, ie, igh

MATH:

We will dig deeper with the following skills:

• Comparing numbers using <, =, and >
• Understanding meaning of difference, sum, and unknown.
• Determining 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, 10 less AND 1 more, 1 less, 100 more, 100 less
• Determining how many bundles of 10 are in a given number

SCIENCE:

• This week we will begin our next unit on Sound and Light!

LEADER IN ME:

• This week we will revisit Habit 2 "Begin with the End in Mind" as we read                        Rosie Revere Engineer. We will see what other Habits the students find in the book.