Welcome back to school! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekends.
Thank you for all of the food you donated during our food drive. The food will be distriubed to needy families later this week. We soooo appreciate your generosity! On that same note, we currently have a giving tree set up in the lobby of our school. Each year we help needy families in the PHM area have a great Christmas. Instead of each class adopting a family this year, we are using the giving tree. The tree has stars decorating it. On each star is a need. Check it out!
Language Arts~
After specials this morning, we took our spelling pretest. We then worked on the grammar skill of linking verbs. we had a great discussion about this week's vocabulary and vocabulary skill (homophones-sounds alike, spelled and means something different). Our words for the week are sores, loosened, mysterious, amazement, midst, responsibility, and patchwork. Our comprehension skills are summarizing and sequencing. We are reading the story "Mystic Horse."
Our Rit words for the week are.
Antithesis- Saying the opposite of whatyou really mean, for effect. That was a cool move, man!
Aphorism- A statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life. Life is short
Conflict- The struggle found in a story.
Characterization- The method used by a writer to develop a character.
First Person Point of View- When the narrator tells his own story. I went to the mall and bought shoes.
HW: Book orders are due tomorrow and weekly homework went home today. Due Friday.
Math~
Today we finished up Thursday's lesson on estimating answers to multiplication problems. We estimated the numbers to the nearest multiple of 10. 9 X 23 becomes 10 X 20. We also found magnitude estimates. That is a rough estimate where the answers is just to place value. The magnitude answer for the above problem would be 100s because 10 X 20 = 200. and that is in the hundreds place value.
HW: Math boxes and study link 5.4
Science (Woods)~
Today was a catch up on daily morning work day. We graded some packets.
No HW.
