I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend! I don't know about you, but I'm still stuffed!
Language Arts~
We started our day with specials. Then we came back to the room eager to jump into our novel study. For the next 3 weeks, we will be reading Frindle by Andrew Clements. We will be doing vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and writing activities all centered around the novel. Today we passed out our materials, made predictions about the novel, and read chapter one. The students had time in class to complete the following 2 activities. If they did not get done, it is homework.
*1 Write 2 paragraphs that answer the following questions: Would you say that Nick is a troublemaker? Why or why not? How would you define the word troublemaker?
*2 Answer the comprehension question about chapter 1. Use complete sentences and answer all parts of the questions.
HW Note: There will be no weekly homework or spelling tests during the novel study.
Math~
Today we started unit 6. This unit has to do with division, measuring angles with a protractor and coordinate grids. Our focus today was division story problems. Students needed to do journal pages 138 and 139. Journal page 140 was a review. They also needed to do math boxes 6.1 and study link 6.1 All pages are due tomorrow.
Science (Grannan)~
Today we continued to work on our biology unit. We observed our lima beans. We also took a closer look at our celery. We were able to identify the xylem and phloem tubes. We then took apart the celery and actually removed the tubes. Next we read about the different parts of a flower and briefly discussed how the different parts make seeds. We labeled the different parts on a worksheet and colored in the worksheet.
No homework today.
