Jan. 31st- Feb. 4th

Welcome to February the month of Friendship and love.

Important assignments for the week:

1. Our G.K Test 1 will be on Friday 4th. Study: Renaissance Architecture, Brunelleschi and Baroque Art.

2.Bring for Thursday 3rd the following pictures printed. REMEMBER THAT THE PICTURES SHOULD NOT BE BIGGER THAN 7X7cms. They need to fit in your notebook in order to be framed and labeled in class.

• The Piazza at St. Peter's Basilica
• Bernini's Baldachin from St. Peter's Basilica
• Fountain of the Four Rivers, Piaza Nova in Rome
• Portrait of Bernini

3. Our Spelling test 2 will be on Thursday 3rd. 10 words and 10 sentences.

4. Next Tuesday 8th , we will have our Reading and writing Test 1. Study: Commas, Meeting Mr. Henry, Missing Links and Dwaina Brooks, and a short paragraph will be dictated from the stories read.

Topics to be worked in class by areas:

Spelling

Spelling List 2. Writing coherent sentences and writing each word withh 100%accuracy will be the indicators to be evaluated.

1. am
2. is
3. was
4. were
5. become
6. became
7. seem
8. appear
9. feel
10. felt
11. taste
12. smell
13. look
14. unfortunate
15. advised
16. deliveries
17. donate
18. organized
19. fountain
20. obelisk

GRAMMAR

 We will start working with verbs during the term.

This week will be focused on Action and Linking Verbs            ( pages 92-95 will be done in class).

 READING AND WRITING

 We will read the story Dwaina Brooks from our Reading book pages 170-180

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 

We will start working with the Baroque Artist, Gianlorenzo Bernini and some of his most important masterpieces.

• The Piazza at St. Peter's Basilica
• Bernini's Baldachin from St. Peter's Basilica
• Fountain of the Four Rivers, Piaza Nova in Rome
• Portrait of Bernini

SCIENCE

We will continue working on Inheritance. "How do Scientist learn about Inheritance? Gregor Mendel. pages A60- A66

Watch this video, it will help you understand better the usage of Punnet Squares.

I hope that you find this information handy and helpful.

Have a wonderful week, 

Love,

Ms. Marinés Betancourt