I hope everyone had a great weekend!! Don't forget that we are still collecting food for the food drive this week. I told the kids that I would pay them $5.00 mini-economy money for every can/item that they bring in this week.
Language Arts~ After music and IMC, we took our spelling pretest. This week's focus is words with silent letters. We also went over past tense verbs. We reviewed our vocabulary for the week: unfair, ancestors, numerous, segregation, unsuspecting, avoided and injustice. Our vocabulary skill is prefixes. We also talked about author's purpose again. That is our comprehension skill. We listened to our story for the week, "My Brother, Martin." This week is Random Act of Kindness week. We discussed what this means and made posters advertising the event.
RIT Words
Setting - Where a story takes place
Supporting details - The details and examples that support a main idea in a paragraph.
Synecdoche - When one uses one part to represent the whole. For example. I like your new threads means I like your new clothes. Hey is that a new set of wheels? Lend me your ears.....
Sarcasm - a form of sneering criticism in which disapproval is often expressed as ironic praise. Example: Jason was walking away from the lunch counter and dropped his tray. A stranger nearby said, "Well, that was really intelligent."
Stanza - A unified group of lines in poetry. A verse.
HW: Weekly homework went home today. It is due on Friday. My Random Act of kindness for the day was to tell the students that they needed to answer 4 out of the 5 think and compare questions.
Math~
We started unit 5 today. Our focus today was solving extended math facts. 4 * 8 = 32 than 4 * 80 = 320.
We also played beat the calculator to practice our math facts. Students should also be bringing home a unit 5 math preview. This is a large packet of papers that goes over the types of problems that we will be solving this unit. It is not a worksheet and does not have to be turned back in to me.
HW: Mathboxes and Study Link 5.1. Please remember to sign the study link.
Science (Woods)~
Today we went over last week's morning work. We then read a section in our sciencesaurus and answered questions about the moon and seasons. It is homework if it isn't finished!
