Friday, September 9, 2011

9/9/11

Language Arts:
Today was a productive day in our classroom. We took our vocabulary quiz over chapter 10, reviewed the comprehension questions from chapter 10, read and discussed chapter 11, and filled in our time line with important events that added to the plot of our story. We were introduced to a new character today and she wasn't very nice!

We had some independent work time where the students completed a Venn diagram where they compared a character from our novel to another character from another book that they have read, worked on comprehension questions from chapter 11, and created a writing piece where they made a text-to-world connections. We accomplished all of this before moving on to Vocabulary Vine.

Homework:
***Although the students had a lot of work time in class, they still need to have their comprehension questions completed, the Venn diagram, and their test-to-world writing.
***Study 5 vocabulary words from chapter 11. I would love to have everyone receive a 100%.
***We will be having a quiz on Monday over the first half of our novel. Review your comprehension questions.

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Math: Fraction Friday
Today we completed our minute, graded our homework, exercised our minds, then hit the floor for Fraction Friday review on white boards. This was a review over addition, subtraction, multiplying, and dividing fractions.

Our lesson of the day focused on persuasive graphs, samples, and surveys. We spent the second portion of our class playing Landmark Shark. This is an Everyday Math game that focuses on finding the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data. It is great practice for their upcoming test.

Homework:
***None
***We will be having a quiz over Unit 1 skills on Monday as well as a review of skills. The Unit 1 test will be on Tuesday.

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Social Studies:(Mrs. Doms)
Today was our chapter 1 test

Homework:
***None

Have a great weekend!