I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend!
Northpoint is collecting non-perishable food items for the next two weeks. This food will be distributed to families in need in the PHM district. Please send in your donations with your child. Friday is Hawaiian Day. Your child can dress Hawaiian. Instead of collecting money, we will be collecting can goods.
Language Arts~
We had double specials today. We went to music and to IMC. We took our spelling pretest. We are still having trouble grading correctly. Students have been given several warnings to grade carefully. There was $10.00 mini-economy fine today for every word that wasn't graded correctly. We previewed our vocabulary for the week. Our skill is synonyms and our words are interfere, awkward, proclaimed, agile, guardian, and tottered. The students did a great job today paraphrasing the definitons and putting them in their own words. This is a skill we have been working on. Our comprehension skill for the week is author's purpose. Authors write to entertain, to persuade, and to inform. It helps comprehension when we realize why an author is writing. We read our story, "Roadrunner's Dance." We also started learning about verbs. Verbs are action words. Today we also talked about present tense and subject/verb agreement. We also worked on handwriting today. Handwriting will become a major push this quarter as we try to get ready for 2nd semester when we go to all cursive, all the time. Some students may have some handwriting homework this week. It is my expectation that students do only one page of handwriting at home. We will also be working on handwriting here at school.
The 2nd quarter reading project came home today. We will be working on biographies. It is a fairly involved project.
HW: Weekly homework came home today. There is a new component to the weekly homework. It is called think and compare. Students will need to answer the questions in the think and compare section at the end of each week's story. The answers will need to be written in complete sentences and also completely answer the questions.
RIT Words~
Mood - The emotional attitude of the story.
Paraphrase - To rewrite something in your own words.
Interjections- A part of speech that usually expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone. "Yes!"
Symbolism- This is when something represents more than what it is in a literal sense. An example would be a dove representing peace.
Suspense- When the author builds up anticipation for what will come next in a story.
Math~
Today we worked on measuring with personal measurements and comparing that to the metric system.
HW: Study Links 4.9 and Math boxes 4.9 was assigned as homework. There was also a change in policy today. All study links must be signed by a parent before they are turned in. Students may still complete them at school but must take them home and share them with an adult at home before turning them in. Head's up: Unit 4 test on Thursday.
Science (Grannan)~
We began a short unit on space today by watching 2 Bill Nye science videos about the moon and about seasons. These relate directly to Indiana Academic Standards. Head's up: We will be going to the planetarium on Wednesday.
