Language Arts
Today we are back to reading from our purple reader! Our story of the week is Rattlers. It is all about why we shouldn't be afraid of rattlesnakes. Our comprehension skill is main ideas and details. The organization of the story is very helpful because each main idea is in the form of a question and is the heading for each section. Our vocabulary words: species, survive, alert, vibrations, surroundings, prey, predators, and lunging. Our grammar skill is singular and plural nouns.
Here is our Rit Vocabulary and examples:
Appositives - When you are renaming someone or something. This information is often not needed. You put commas around the appositive. For example: My dog, Sadie is at the groomers. Sadie is the appositive.
Bias - A preconceived opinion about something. It is also the point of view you take in your writing. For example: Many students wrote a persuasive paper last week about drugs. Their bias was that drugs are bad.
Epiphany - A sudden moment of understanding that causes a character to change or act in a certain way. For example: After everyone sat with other people at lunch, Fred had an epiphany and decided to be nicer to his friends.
Gerund - It is a verb that functions like a noun. For example: Running is a Mr. L's favorite hobby. Running is a gerund.
Italics - A type of letter that is slightly slanted, usually used for titles and to emphasize special words. For example: We will have a test next Friday. Next is in italics to differentiate from this Friday.
Our writing focus of the week is persuasive letters. Each student is to write a letter to the editor. They need to back up their opinions with facts and may need to do a little research at home. This is due on Friday.
Weekly Homework was assigned and is due next Friday.
Check out the spelling city website. It is a really cool website to practice spelling words. Just type in your list under the batch tool and you can learn, test and play games all about your spelling words.
Math: Today we finished up our unit 4 test and worked on a division packet. No homework.
Science: Today we measured the capacity of a fleet of lifeboats (paper cups) and saw how many passengers (pennies) each boat held. What did we learn?
