Note to my homeroom: Don't forget to get your social studies test signed. You need to return it to Mrs. Suddarth tomorrow!
Language Arts
We started some new skills today and reviewed some others. Our spelling skill this week is ch/tch. This was a challenge for some of us. We are working on common and proper nouns in grammar this week. Our vocabulary skill is context clues. Our comprehension skill is author's purpose.
Fluency and Flow went home as homework today. Here are this week's expectations:
1. Read the story out loud to an adult and have the adult sign the fluency and flow.
2. Answer the questions about the story "Mighty Jackie"
3. Have parent sign the word workout section after you have completed it. This can be done orally.
4. Do the highlighted parts of the skill page
5 (Extra Credit) Write the story that you planned on the skill page.
I added another website to the helpful links section of the blog. AR Book Finder lets you check to see if a book has an AR test. You can use this link anywhere. I also added lexile.com. This will help you know if the book is in your child's range. Your child has their lexile range in their binder.
Remember that it is Northpoint's expectation that all 4th and 5th graders read 20-30 minutes a night. I will be adding up minutes that are recorded in the agendas at the end of the quarter. Please make sure that you are writing them down. According to my calculations (20 minutes X 40 days), students should have read about 800 minutes this quarter.
Math
Today we talked about taking a sample to help us make better estimates. We discovered that it would take about 3,000,000 days for us to tap our desks 1 trillion times. We decided not to test the theory. We also reviewed multiplication with decimals. The rule for the decimals is given a lot of kids trouble. Here it is. You add up the number of places to the right of the decimal in each of the factors. (1.2 X 23, has 1 place but 1.2 X 0.23 has 3 places) and that number should equal the number of places to the right of the decimal in the product. (27.6 for the first problem and 0.276 for the second problem. Don't forget there is a test over the material in unit 2 on Wednesday. Homework is study link 2.10 and any part of journal pages55-57 that wasn't completed in class.
Science
Welcome Mrs. Suddarth's friends to class. It was fun to start to get to know you. Today we started investigating what magnets could do. We discovered that magnets stick to Iron. Tomorrow we will learn about other magnetic properties. No homework.
