Welcome back to school. I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend.
Mrs. Stephan asked that the kids put the following in their planners today.
PTO meeting @ 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday / Art Smart meeting to follow.
The PTO newsletter also went home today. I noticed as I read through it that my homeroom class is still looking for someone to be in charge of the montage page for the yearbook. Any takers???
Language Arts
Mondays are so busy as we introduce the skills for the week!
Spelling - We took our pretest. I collected them today but the kids should know what list to study.
Grammar - We continue our study of sentences. Today we began looking a complex sentences.
Vocabulary - Our words are mission, disasters, environment, zone, gravity, maze, adjusted, and function. We continue to work with context clues.
Comprehension - Our story this week is a non-fiction story about Space Camp. We will be working on the skill of finding main ideas and summarizing.
Our RIT words for the week include the following
Consonance - Is the repetition of a consonant sound in sentence. (dark deep dread crept in)
Tone - Is the attitude the writer has toward the subject and audience he is writing for. For example the tone of this week's story is informative. The tone of the tall tale we read 2 weeks ago was humorous.
Colloquialism - Is a common spoken expression. It is informal language. An example might be "What's up?" Often a colloquialism is regional. Do you call that fizzy beverage a coke (no matter the brand), a soda, or pop?
Pun - Is a play on words for humorous effect. For example, a boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
Climax - Is the turning point of a story and is often the part that is most intense. In the Davy Crockett story, the climax would be when the comet dives into the Atlantic Ocean to try an drown Davy.
We also went to IMC today and Mrs. Slater came to talk to us about conflict resolution.
Math
Last week's test went home today. Ask your student how they did! We reviewed adding and subtracting whole numbers and decimals today. Homework today was a worksheet.
A quick note: Everyday Math teaches a variety of ways to figure out answers to math problems. I always encourage the kids to use the method that works best for them. So even if the directions say to use the partial sum method, kids can use whatever method works best for them.
Health
Today we talked about how making healthy choices can help us later in life and as we hit middle school years. We also worked on our chapter 2 review. Test will be on Thursday!
