Tuesday, September 22, 2009

9/22/09

Another busy day!

Language Arts:
Today in Language Arts we started off in Vocabulary Vine adding two new Greek and Latin word parts to our collection. We also reviewed run-on sentences by completing an overhead together and then completed a grammar page independently. We discussed quotation marks by working a few examples on the board. This seemed a little easier for the students today. We also listened to our read a loud followed by some of us typing our letters while others read independently.

Homework:
***Weekly Homework Packet- This week it is a little different so work on it a little each night.It is due on Friday.
***Even though Friday is No Child Left Inside Day and we have a lot of fun activities planned, we will still have all of our usual assessments that day.
***Reading Projects- due October 14th

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Math:
Today in Math we completed a lot of things. We worked on our minute, reviewed RIT vocabulary, worked on computation skills(Focusing on finding the Least Common Multiple-using prime factorization), worked with using two variables in a general pattern, and discussed algebraic equations.
***RIT quizzes were passed back today and placed in RIT folders. Unit 2 test and checking progress were also passed back and placed in blue take home folders.

Homework:
***Pages 90,91 and Math Boxes 3.2 and 3.3

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Social Studies:
Today we read and discussed lines of latitude and longitude and geographic terms. We also worked with our work partners to find specific locations of lines of latitude of longitude in our interactive workbooks.

Homework:
***None


Until tomorrow...