I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Language Arts
We are reading a fantasy story this week that takes place in Mexico. It is called "Pipiolo and the Roof Dogs." These are our vocabulary words: transformed, celebration, moistened, fragrance, cooperation, canceled, and theory. Our vocabulary skill is using a thesaurus and our comprehension skill is cause and effect. Our grammar skill is fixing run-on sentence.
Here are this week's RIT words:
FABLE -A short, animal tale, most often told or written with a moral tagged on in the form of a proverb.
EXAGGERATION -To represent something as greater than it actually is.
ANALOGY - A comparison of certain similarities between things that are otherwise unlike.
GENERALIZATION - A one sentence summary of a story that includes only the most important details.
OVERSTATEMENT- The act of making something seem more important than it really is.
We went to IMC and Mrs. Slater came and talked to us about conflict resoultion.
Currently we are reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We hope to be finished with it by this weekend. We will be doing a writing project on this book. We need your help. We are in need of candy. We are looking for any movie theater sized candy box that we can use and cover with paper. Wal-mart also sells this size candy box. We hope to have all the candy boxes in by Friday.
There is weekly homework this week. It is due on Friday.
Math
Today we talked about how estimating answers helps us to see if we are in the right ball park. Here is an example of the type of problem we did today. 14 *17 First we round the factors to the nearest easy number (10 * 20 = 200) The magnitude estimate would be hundreds. Homework is finishing page 48 and study link 2.7
Health
Today we talked about the differences between needs and desires. We discovered that we have basic physical and emotional needs. We also discussed goal setting. Reaching short-term goals can help us reach our long term goals. Homework is doing questions 1-4 in the lesson check-ups for lessons 1 & 2. All questions need to be answered in complete sentences and in cursive.
