LanguageArts~
First the good news (at least according to the kids), due to the shortened week, we will not have weekly homework this week. We will still have a spelling test on Friday. All students should have a list in their folders.
This week we are reading the story "The Blind Hunter." Our vocabulary focus is on word families - words that share the same base word. Cautiously, faint, disguised, crisscrossed, wisdom, fade and jealousy are our vocabulary words. Our comprehension skill is drawing conclusions. You can help us learn this skill by discussing what the author is not telling us.
Today we went to gym. Then we took our spelling pretest. The list is hard this week. Please spend 10 minutes a night reviewing words. We talked about pronouns. Today we discussed 3 different types of pronouns: subject, object and reflexive. Grammar test will be on Thursday. We previewed comprehension and vocabulary for the story. We listened to the story on CD. We also did a 10 minute marathon writing session. We had vocabulary vine today. We learned that pre means before or in front of.
Math~
Today we reviewed making equivalent fractions. We also worked on turning simple fractions into decimals. Today's homework is math boxes and study link 7.8 and anything that didn't get done in class.
Science (Grannan)~
We had two focuses today. 1. How can we measure the force of two magnets? 2. How can we proof that the force of attraction between two magnets decreases as the distance between the magnet increases? We set up a balance and counted the number of washers it took to pull two magnets apart. Eventually we used spacers to add distance between the magnets. We discovered that as the number of spacers increased, the number of washers it took to break the force decreased. No homework.
