I hope everyone had a great Spring Break! There is lots of things going on now that Spring has sprung.
Testing: We start our final rounds of testing this week. Look at the earlier blog posting to see our testing schedule fro 5th grade.
Camp: Camp paperwork and payment is due on Friday, April 16th.
Silver Mile Moves: Silver Mile Movers has been canceled for this week.
Language Arts
We got right back into our routine this morning. We reviewed language arts concepts and then had vocabulary vine/triumphs. We then took our spelling pretest for the week. Our focus is on prefixes. We then learned about comparative and superlative adjectives. Comparative adjectives compare 2 things and end with the suffix -er. Superlative adjectives compare more than 3 things and end with the suffix -est. Our day continued when we looked at our vocabulary words for the week: instill, combined, naturalist, vacant, and diverse. Our vocabulary skill is analogies. Our reading skill for the week is cause and effect. Our story is "A Historic Journey." Weekly homework was assigned and is due on Friday.
Weekly Rit words. Our focus this week is on point of view of stories:
First Person - The narrator is a character in the story
Omniscient - The narrator knows everything about the characters including thoughts and feelings of the characters.
third person - The narrator of the story is an observer of the story, not a participant.
Persona - A voice or character representing the speaker in a story
Point of View - The vantage point of the narrator from which the action is related.
Math
We continued looking at area of rectangles today. We added in areas of triangles and parallelograms. We learned two more formula: The area of a triangle is 1/2(base X height). The area of a parallelogram is base X height. Homework is studylink 9.5
Health
Today we began looking at nutrition. We learned how our digestive system works and what our bodies need to be healthy. Homework was Chapter 4 Lesson 1 check up.
