Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Bus Safety Day!

Today we took a few moments to learn about what to do in a bus emergency.  The kids did a great job being active listeners and participants.

Language Arts.  We sorted our spelling words by R sound and practiced writing complex sentences.  We read our story together and looked for main ideas.  We then used those main ideas to write a short summary of the story.  We began writing essays about how our 5 senses help us make healthy choices.  This writing is for red ribbon week.
HW:  Keep working on Weekly Homework

Math:  Today we learned about the friendly number strategy for division.  If you are dividing a 3digit number by a one digit number, this strategy allows you to do the work in your head.  For example  789/6 can be thought of as (720+69)/6.  720/6 is 120 and 69/6 is 11R3.  That means the answer to 789/6 is 131R3.
HW:  Study Link and Math Boxes 4.1

Science:  We took a test over chapter 2.
HW: None