What a great day to have recess duty!
Language Arts: This morning we reviewed simple and complete subjects as well as simple and compound predicates. After a little extra practice, the students were really getting the hang of locating them within a sentence. We also spent some time working on two different paragraphs with our editing partner. The students worked on finding a variety or errors in capitalization, quotations, apostrophes, commas, spelling, and even language usage. We also spent some time reviewing our RIT vocabulary for the week and listening to our read aloud.
In writing, we discussed cliches and our lesson involved the old cliche,"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words." The students had the choice of a variety of colored pictures and were asked to write a creative story using imagery. From what I've read so far, I can't wait to read their finished products!
Homework:
***Book orders are due on Friday.
***Assessments will be given on Friday.
***Weekly Homework Packet-due Friday
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Math: During computation we reviewed divisibility, finding the area of room, and finding the mean. Our lesson for the day involved estimating and finding the exact percent of a circle by using the percent circle on our templates. We ended the class with a short quiz over different graphs. It looks as though they will be ready for our Unit 1 test on Friday. We will spend time tomorrow reviewing. I plan on pretesting for Unit 2 since it deals primarily with computation.
Reminder: our RIT words for this week are as follows: algebraic expression, absolute value, complementary angles, supplementary angles and corresponding angles.
Homework:
***Journal pages(two)
***Study link 1.9
***A quiz was sent home today over graphs. Be looking for it!
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Social Studies- Today we discussed how the American Indians might have migrated to North America and the possible routes they may have taken. The students practiced writing a short summary about what we read in their interactive workbooks and some students shared their summary with the class. This reviewed the vocabulary for the week as well. We also discussed the four different environments that the American Indians may have lived in and how they had to adapt to their new surroundings.
Homework:
***It is a good idea to review the vocabulary and the sections that we read in class each day.(They are very short.)
***Our test over Chapter 2 is projected to be next Wednesday.
Until tomorrow...
