Winter! The weather has turned colder and the snow is flying. Please make sure that your child comes prepared for the elements outside. We usually go outside in winter unless the windchill is below zero. Hats, gloves, scarfs, an boots are necessary items now.
Our service project
Thanks to everyone who brought in things for our family today. We have some toys, books, and clothes. Thank you so much for your generosity. Please make sure that you have all your items that you will be donating to school by December 11. That will allow us to make sure that all of the children have something to open and to fill any gaps.
Language Arts
Our story this week is My Brother Martin. It is a story about Martin Luther King's childhood and was written by his sister. Our vocabulary words are: unfair, ancestors, numerous, segregation, unsuspecting, avoided and injustice. Our vocabulary skill is word parts, prefixes in particular. Our comprehension skill is evaluation and author's purpose. Our spelling sill is words with silent letters. We are not differentiating spelling this week. All children will be ont he on-level test. Our grammar skill this week is verb tenses.
Fluency and Flow went home today. Here are the expectations.
1. Read the story to an adult and have the adult sign.
2. Answer the questions at the end of the story.
3. Do the word workout with an adult and have the adult sign.
4. Pick a person on the skill sheet and write a letter from that person's point of view.
Math
Today we continued working with fractions. Our focus today was finding equivalent fractions. We discovered that if you multiply both parts of the fraction by the same number you will get equivalent fractions. Homework: Study Link 5.4
Science
Today we reviewed the worksheets from last week and discussed tomorrow's test. The kids asked if it would be open note. I told them that it must likely would be but that I still expected them to study!
Enjoy the weather.
