Thursday, October 1, 2009

Thinking Thursday

What a busy day!!!

Continue to collect those boxtops.
Tonight is Culvers Give Back Night is tonight. Be sure to remember your yellow coupon.
Tonight is also Skate Night at USA skating rink.

Language Arts
Today we reviewed language arts skills. We also reviewed sentence fragments. We learned two new Greek and Latin roots. Tomorrow there will be a quiz over the following roots. The students got a "cheat sheet" today.
naut - Sailor, ship
cosmo - world universe
aero - air
hydr, hydro - water
dyna, dynamo - power, force
stat, stas, stant - standing not moving
gen, gener, -geny, etc - clan, class, origin, birth, development,produces
tect - build, cover
aqui, aqua - water
carn - flesh, meat
vore - eat, devour
inter- - , between, among
cap, capt, cept - take, seize, hold
rupt - break
ced, cess - go, yield
ject - cast, throw
sect, sec, seg - cut
man, manu - hand
scrib, script - write


Math
Today we began measuring angles with protractors. We will work on this skill again tomorrow.
Homework - Math Boxes and Study Link 3.4

Health
We reviewed for tomorrow's test.