Monday, January 10, 2011

Back to the Winter Wonderland

I hope everyone had a great weekend playing in the snow.

Homeroom~
Could you check and see if you have received the NP newsletter?  Send me an email if you haven't gotten one in the last week or so and I will make sure that your email is added to the list.  You may want to check spam and junk mail folders as well...

Language Arts~
This week we are reading "Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School."  Anyone who has a dog that makes bad choices can identify with this story about a dog with an excuse for everything.  Our comprehension skills for the week are generating questions and drawing conclusions.  Our vocabulary for the week includes these words: neglected, appreciated, risks, bluffing, misunderstood, desperate, endured, and obedience.  Our vocabulary skill is prefixes.  Our spelling words focus on endings and our grammar skill is pronouns.  I will add our RIT words tomorrow.

There is homework this week.  Check those backpacks.  Book orders are due tomorrow.

Math~
Today our skill was probability.  We discussed how likely we were to pull certain cards from a deck of cards.  We learned that we can express the probability mathematically as a fraction by putting the number of desirable outcomes over the number of possible outcomes. 

Homework was study link and math boxes 7.3.  Only a few students were still working on this at then end of class

Science (Grannan)~
Today we cleaned up some left over science morning work packets.  We will get back to magnets on Wednesday. 

No homework.