Happy Spring!
Language Arts:
Today in Language Arts we were very busy. We worked on handwriting reviewing capital P, R, and B. We are now going to spend the rest of the year practicing and reviewing our combinations of letters. This is extremely important in writing in cursive on spelling tests.In spelling, an incorrect letter formation is a misspelled word!
We also read our story for the week. This week our story is called Spirit of Endurance. The following are our vocabulary words for the week: frigid, triumph, dismantled, uninhabited, treacherous, expedition, abandon, and labor. This story is a rather long one so I suggest that parents take turns reading it with their kids or spread it out over two nights. It will help in comprehension that way.
Our RIT words for the week are antithesis, appendix, interjections, italics, paraphrase, and rhyme scheme. The students have these words in their RIT folder and should be studying them a little each night as well.
In grammar, we worked on adjectives and the nouns that they describe.
We ended our morning taking the overall Unit 4 test and spending some time working on the illustrations of our published book.
Homework/Reminders:
***Green State Float Planning Sheet is due tomorrow with a parent signature.
***Weekly Homework Packet- due Friday
***Published book order forms are due on Wednesday.
***Study the spelling words. The words are getting more difficult!
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Math:
Today in math we completed our minute, worked on computation practice, and completed a problem solving question. We spent the remainder of the day working and reviewing using formulas for finding the volume and area of cylinders and spheres. Our test is scheduled right now for Wednesday. If after tomorrow the students still need more time, I will push it back to Friday.(Thursday is our Study Island day in the computer lab.) We will work on a practice test tomorrow as a group.
Homework:
***None
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Social Studies:
***The students worked in cooperative groups today creating their billboard to entice others to come to their colony. So far the billboards that are finished are amazing. I can't wait to hear the presentations by each group tomorrow.
Homework:
***Our test over Chapter 7 is planned for either Friday or Monday depending on how long presentations take. Start rereading the chapter!
Until tomorrow...
