I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Don't forget about our Stuff a Trailer food drive. We are collecting non-perishable foods through next Wednesday. Help us stuff a trailer!
Language Arts~
November book orders will come home this week. This is a great way to purchase holiday gifts and stocking stuffers. If you would like to keep your order a secret from your child just send me a quick email and I will hold the books back. We can make arrangements to get the books home to you another way. (little siblings, neighbors, leave in the office, etc...)
Our story for the week is Rattlers. This is a nonfiction story about snakes. Our comprehension skill is summarizing and looking for the main ideas. We will also be looking at how the author organized the story. Our vocabulary words are species, survive, alert, vibrates, surroundings, prey, predators, vibrates, and lunging. Our vocabulary skill is using restated context clues to figure out the words. Both our grammar and spelling skills focus on plural nouns.
HW: Weekly homework is due Friday!
Here are this week's RIT words. There may be a RIT word quiz later this week.
Fiction: A literary form based on imagination rather than just fact. Most stories are fiction.
Parallelism: The use of repetitive structure to create rhythm in writing. (The more we do, the more we can do is one example.)
Synedoche: Where a specific part refers to the whole. I got a new set of wheels meaning I got a new car.
Aphorism: A short witty statement of wisdom or opinion. A watched pot never boils.
Archetype: A model character or a character that other characters are based on. Percy is based on the archetype of a hero in Greek myths.
Paradox: A statement that is true even though it seems to be saying opposite things. Soon you will be grown up enough to read fairy tales again.
Quip: A clever or witty remark or comment brought about by the situation. After a ball game: Bad losers make worse winners.
Theme: The fundamental idea or life lesson explored in a literary work. Trusting friends was one theme in Percy Jackson.
Antithesis: Using opposite ideas in the same thought or sentence in order to make a point. Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee.
Math~
Today we reviewed equivalent fractions. You make an equivalent fraction by multiplying or dividing the numerators and denominators by the same number.
HW: Study Link 5.4 and unfinished journal pages.
Science~
Today we looked at the three different categories of rocks and how they are formed. Ask your child about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
HW: None
