A busy day... even for a Monday!
Language Arts:
Today in Language Arts we took our spelling pretest. This week we will focus on the long o spelling patterns. Please be sure to study these words a little each night.
Our reading story for the week is The Raft. It is a realistic fiction piece that brings about good conversation of how the main character's feelings change from the beginning to the end of the story. Please ask questions as you read the story together at home. Also, be sure to discuss the following vocabulary words and their meanings:downstream, disgusted, nuzzle, scattered, raft, and cluttered.
Our Common Core vocabulary words for the week are plot, characters,complex sentences, setting, context clues, purpose, audience,and voice. They will be added to a glossary a little each day. Your child is responsible for studying these words as they are presented each week. We will be working with them and quizzing over them periodically.
In grammar this week, we will be working on run-on sentences and sentence fragments. I'd love to see these disappear from our writing!
Homework:
***Weekly homework packet- due Friday
***Acuity testing for LA tomorrow morning- Eat a healthy breakfast.
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Math:
Today we completed our minute, reviewed a few skills on white boards,and discussed our weekly objectives and Common Core vocabulary that we will discuss this week. Next, we worked on our lesson for the day which dealt with finding the area of a rectangular shape and a few irregular ones as well. This week our standards focus on measurement and finding both the perimeter and area of shapes.
Homework:
***Math Box 8.1 and 8.2- due tomorrow
***Yellow Writing and Computation in math sheet-due Friday
(The students were told to do all their computation in the box, circle their answer, and explain in detail using math vocabulary in their responses.
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Social Studies- We discussed the Mississippi river in detail today. We learned how many states it passes through, where it starts, where it ends, how it has changed since the days of Mark Twain, and what regions it flows through....
Homework:
***Our Chapter 2 test for Content #1 will be on Thursday- Please use the study guide that was passed out last week.
Until tomorrow...
