I hope everyone had a great weekend! I am amazed by how fast time is flying by! Look for the pictures to come home tomorrow or Wednesday. Picture retakes are going to be October 26th.
Language Arts~
We began a new story in our readers today. It is called Ultimate Field Trip 5 and it is a nonfiction story about going to Space Camp. It tells all the different ways the astronauts prepare for going into space and adds real life facts about space trips. Our comprehension skills include asking questions to check understanding and summarizing the main ideas. Our vocabulary skill is focusing on context clues and using descriptions to figure out words. Here are our vocabulary words: maze, function, adjusted, gravity, zone, environment, disasters, and mission. Our spelling focus is on r-controlled vowels sounds and our grammar focus is writing complex sentences.
RIT Words:
Description - to represent something with words.
Summarize - To tell in brief form
Stanza - A section of poetry.
Rhythm - The pattern of syllables in a poem
Narrate - To tell a story
HW: Weekly Homework is due on Friday. Don't forget to get parent signatures.
Math~
Look for last Friday's test to come home today or tomorrow. It depends on if mailboxes got cleaned out. Unit 4 is all about division. We pretested today so that we can really focus our instruction.
Science~
Today we took our chapter 2 test. Grannan's class will take the test tomorrow!
