ISTEP is over (at least until April) and our attention turns to the I Love to Read Challenge. This Thursday is our day to win a visit from a WSBT personality. Vote early, Vote often. The phone lines and internet voting is from 5:00-7:00 am.
Tomorrow is a pajama day! Bring a dollar for one for books and you get to wear your PJ's tomorrow.
Language Arts
It was wonderful to see all of the friends who joined us for hot chocolate, a granola bar, and a good book this morning.
Our class read over 5200 minutes the first four days of the challenge. We are well on our way to making me a part of a banana split. As an added reward for the great reading effort, we will not be having fluency and flow this week. Everyone who reads at least 40 minutes a night won't have fluency and flow next week either. Keep up the good work! Don't forget that Wednesday is our day to dress like our favorite character. Reading logs are due again on Friday!
Today we got back into our reader. We are reading about life on a coral reef. Did you know that coral is really small animals? We took our spelling pretest today. We began studying our pronoun homophones. Is it it's, its yours, you're, their, or they're? Sometimes it's hard to tell. Our vocabulary skill this week is context clues. Our vocabulary words are coral, reef, partnership, current, eventually, brittle and suburbs. Our comprehension skill is to analyze text structures by comparing and contrasting information.
We also presented games today. The games seem like a lot of fun. We have five more to present and then we will play them.
Math
Today we began talking about multiplying fractions. We folded paper to help us see how this worked. This helped some of us and confused others. Basically the concept to remember is that when we multiply fractions we multiply the numerators, and then multiply the denominators. We then reduce if we need to. There are a couple of tricks that I will be teaching as we go along. No homework tonight. We did the study link as an assignment so that I could see who gets the process and who needs a bit more help.
Science
Today we discussed how light pollution affects all different animals. Mammals, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds are all influenced by light pollution. Tomorrow we are going to play a game about this subject.
