Picture retakes - Picture retakes are this Wednesday. If you want to retake pictures, you need to return the entire package. If you missed picutures the first time around, there are picture forms in the office.
Language Arts -
We had music and IMC today. We took our spelling pretest and began learning about possessive nouns. We previewed our story vocabulary: hilarious, convinced, mischief, independence, come in handy, dizzy whirlwind and nowadays. Problem and solution is our comprehension skill for the week. We listened to our story: How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning. We began listening to our reading projects.
HW: Get started on weekly homework.
RIT Vocabulary:
Appositive - When you rename someone or something. This is often not needed information. For example: Sadie, my dog, is fluffy. My dog is the appositive that renames Sadie.
Bias - A preconceived opinion about something. A writer might have a bias about what he writes about either for or against. That bias will affect his word choice and tone.
Caricature - A distorted character resulting from the author deliberately exaggerating a trait (or traits) of a personality.
Character - A person in a literary work.
Cliche' - A familiar word or phrase that has been used so much that it is no longer a good way of saying something. For example: red as a beet, cool as a cucumber, dumb as a box of rocks......
Math -
Today we reviewed decimal place value. We talked about what tenths and hundredths represent. No Homework.
Science -
We reviewed profile maps, contour lines, contour intervals, benchmarks and other information having to do with mountains. No homework.
