Tonight is another Explorations Night. Shop between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. and receive 10% off your purchase. Northpoint PTO also receives 10% percent of your purchase total.
Tonight is also Northpoint Swim night at Penn. This totally free event is funded by our PTO.
Language Arts
We reviewed possessives and plurals today. We also worked on our phonics skill of VCCV. Each of our spelling words have that spelling pattern this week. We worked on analogies, repetition and assonance as well. Remember that weekly homework is due tomorrow and tomorrow is assessment day in our world.
Math
Today we worked on mystery plots. Students were asked to figure out which data set went with each data. They needed to use their reasoning skills to figure out the answers. Students were also asked to write about their answers and explain their reasoning. This is a skill that is assessed on ISTEP. We talked about the need for full complete answers. Please help at home by having students explain in detail why an answer is right or wrong. Homework tonight is study link 6.4.
Science
We finished up swingers (pendulums) yesterday. Our next experiment deals with lifeboats (paper cups) and passengers (pennies). We will be trying to figure out how capacity affects the number of pennies that we can put in a cup before the cup sinks. Messy but educational.
