Language Arts~
This week we are reading part of the story "Shiloh." This story is about a boy and a dog. It is realistic fiction.Our comprehension skill is making inferences. This is taking clues from the story and combining them with what we may already know and then coming up with new knowledge. It is a way to know things in the story without the author telling us everything. We are studying idioms this week. You can't know what an idiom means by just looking at the words. Raining cats and dogs is an idiom that means that it is raining very hard. Our vocabulary for the story include bulletin board, decency, shrieks, slurp, delivering, sympathy, mournful and injury. Make sure that you know these words for Friday's tests. Our grammar this week is focusing on nouns. Our spelling words are all compound words.
RIT words:
Monologue - A speech given by a character. It can be either out loud or to himself.
Falling Action - What happens in a story after the climax of the story.
Dialect - Speech by people in a certain region.
Atmosphere - The mood created by the setting of a story.
Allusion - A reference to a very familiar person, place thing or event
Math~ We are beginning chapter 5. This chapter is all about fractions. Today we reviewed 4th grade fraction concepts like parts of a whole and fractions of a set.
HW: Mathboxes and study link 5.1
Science~ Today we looked at the characteristics and properties of minerals. We discovered what makes a mineral a mineral and how to identify different minerals.
HW: Vocabulary sheet.
Test Alert: Grannan's class will have a science test on November 15th.
