Amy Monheiser

• STEAM Rotation for the week is: STEM
• Friday Specials: Spanish
• Respond to your students Friday journal this week. :)
• Homework will go home Friday, the 28th and be due Friday, April 4th.
• Family History Projects will be due: April 25th
• We will go outside if the "feels like" temperature is above 20 degrees, so please have students bring coats, boots and cold weather gear as needed.

• Spirit Wear Day: Friday, April 11th
• Pay For Dress of Choice: Wednesday, April 16th
• Teacher Work Day, No School: Friday, April 18th
• Free Dress of Choice: April 25th

Reading (CKLA Skills): 

Mrs. Monheiser's reading skills group: 

Knowledge Unit 11 - Immigration

Lesson 1 E Pluribus Unum

Lesson 2 Charles Steinmetz Comes to America

Lesson 3 Life in the City

Lesson 4 From Ireland to New York City

Lesson 5 Gold Mountain

Lesson 6 A Land of Opportunity

Pausing Point

Lesson 7 A Mosaic of Immigrants

Lesson 8 Becoming a Citizen

Lesson 9 We the People

Lesson 10 Immigration and Citizenship

Domain Review and Assessment

Knowledge Unit 12 - Fighting for a Cause

Lesson 1 People Who Fought for a Cause

Lesson 2 Susan B. Anthony: An Advocate for Women’s Rights

Lesson 3 Eleanor Roosevelt: A Voice for Human Rights

Lesson 4 Mary McLeod Bethune: A Dedicated Teacher

Lesson 5 Jackie Robinson: Champion of Equality

Pausing Point

Lesson 6 Rosa Parks: The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

Lesson 7 Martin Luther King Jr.: Defender of the Dream

Lesson 8 Cesar Chavez: Protector of Workers’ Rights

Lesson 9 Celebrating Those Who Fought for a Cause

Domain Review and Assessment

• America perceived as a “land of opportunity”
• The meaning of “e pluribus unum” (a national motto you can see on the back of coins
•  Ellis Island and the significance of the Statue of Liberty
• Millions of newcomers to America
• Large populations of immigrants settle in major cities (such as New York, Chicago,
  Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, San Francisco)
•  The idea of citizenship: What it means to be a citizen of a nation
• American citizens have certain rights and responsibilities (for example, voting, eligible
  to hold public office, paying taxes).
• Becoming an American citizen (by birth, naturalization)

• Electricity 
  • Static electricity: electric charges on the surface of things 
  • Current electricity: electrical charges flowing in a circuit through wires and other devices
  • Electricity is a form of energy; it can cause changes. 
  • Matter contains two types of electrical charges: positive and negative. 
  • Types of electricity: 
• B. Magnets and Magnetism
  • Magnet: a metal object that can exert a force through a distance on certain types of metal objects.
  • A magnet has two poles: north and south.
  • Similar magnetic poles attract each other; opposite magnetic poles repel each other.
• C. Designing and Engineering Useful Devices
  • Defining a problem
  • Developing possible solutions
  • Refining (optimizing) the design solution
  • Electricity and magnetism are used in many useful devices.
  • All useful devices are developed through engineering design, a process which
  • Includes:
  • Scientists and engineering designers often work together in teams to solve problems and design effective solutions.
• D. Safe Use of Electricity and Magnetism
  • never put your finger or anything metallic in an electrical outlet.
  • never touch a switch or electrical appliance when your hand or body is wet.
  • never put your finger in a lamp socket.
  • Electricity is potentially dangerous.
  • Safety rules for electricity include:

SPECIALS & STEAM Schedule:

STEAM Rotation: STEM

STEM:  Red

MUSIC: Orange

TECH: Green

ART: Blue