It's Red Ribbon Week! Tomorrow, wear a hat and learn about sun protection!
Language Arts~ Our story this week is Pipiolo and the Roof Dogs. Our vocabulary skill is using a thesaurus to find synonyms. Our Vocabulary words are canceled, moistened, transformed, cooperation, theory, fragrance, celebration, and variety. Our comprehension skill is cause and affect. In grammar, we are focusing on correcting run-on sentences. More r-controlled vowel sounds in spelling this week.
HW: Weekly Homework is due on Thursday!
RIT words
Allegorical Figure - A character who stands for an idea in an allegory. Aslan stands for love in the Narnia stories.
Metonymy - The substitution of one word for another related word. For example: The crown instead or royalty.
Character - (review) A person in a story.
Syntax - The order and relationship of words in a sentence. (grammar)
Protagonist - The main character. Percy Jackson is the protagonist of the Camp Half-Blood series.
Math~ Today we practiced division and problem solving. Our focus was what to do with remainders. Sometimes we ignore them, sometimes we round them up and sometimes we report them as a fraction or decimal. It all depends on the problem.
HW: Study Link 4.6 and whatever didn't get done at school.
Science (Grannan)
Today we observed some common minerals and some soil. We practiced observation and recording skills.
HW: None.
