Thank you everyone for the beautiful flowers. They are so cheerful and bright! I really do appreciate them.
Language Arts
Today we started working on our last novel study. We are reading Island of the Blue Dolphins. Today we read chapters 1-3. We found many instances of similes, metaphors, and imagery. We also talked about the mood of the writing and how the author is building suspense. Homework tonight is to finish the imagery picture. Students may also work on questions 1-8 and the vocabulary for this section.
We also talked about prepositions. These are words that show relationships with other words. For example: around the bend, over the hill, and beside the stream.
Our vocabulary vine focus is on 5 roots. There will be a quiz on Friday. Aqua - water, bio - life, mater - mother, spec - to see, and gen - birth or beginning.
Math - Today we worked on double pan balance problems. The focus was figuring out one weight and the substituting that to figure out the other weight. In class we worked on pages 344-347. Homework is pages 348 and study link 10.2
Health - We reviewed for tomorrow's test. Then we went outside and began working on a project. The students are designing a fitness walk on the playground. They have a rubric for how their walk is going to be graded.
