What a great day! I hope everyone is enjoying the great weather!
Language Arts
Today we began a new story. Our genre of the week is biographies. We are reading the story "How Ben Franklin Stole Lightening" Ben was a problem solver. Our comprehension skill for the week is problem solving. Ben solved a problem and worked to solve it. What was the problem? How did he solve it? Here are our vocabulary words of the week: hilarious, convinced, mischief, independence, (come in) handy, dizzy, whirlwind, and nowadays. Our vocab skill of the week is recognizing idioms. Be on the lookout of idioms that we can add to our book. If you find one, illustrate it and give it to me and I will 3-hole punch it and put it in our binder. Our grammar skill this week is possessive nouns. Possessive nouns show that something belongs to someone. You form them by adding and apostrophe and an s to the word.
Homework: Fluency and Flow went home today. It is due on Friday. Here are this week's expectations.
1. Read the story to an adult at least once this week and have the adult sign the fluency and flow paper.
2. Answer the questions about the story that are found on page 243. Remember I only grade answers that are in complete sentences and are readable. (If you slow down and do it right the first time, you won't have to do it over.)
3. Please use the vocabulary words in a paragraph about an invention this week.
4. Complete the skill page in the packet.
Math
We worked hard to review unit 3 skills today. Tomorrow we will review the skills some more. Our unit 3 test will be on Wednesday. Here are some vocabulary that you should make sure you know: acute, obtuse, right, straight, and adjacent angles; isosceles, equilateral, obtuse, right and scalene triangles; polygon and regular polygon; parallel and perpendicular lines; congruent figures, quadrangles, and tessellations.
Homework: None tonight, you may want to review vocab and look over your review and your notes for this unit.
Science
Today we learned about a reverse circuit. A reverse circuit turns on when the parallel circuit is open and turns off when the parallel circuit is closed. This happens because electricity takes the path of least resistance.
We are almost done with our study of magnetsim and electricity. On Tuesday, we will attempt to make a telegraph. On Thursday and Friday, we will review for Monday's test. Next Tuesday starts our next rotation.
