I hope everyone had a great weekend!
LA~
We are spending the next two weeks working in our big purple books. That means there is weekly homework this week! Due Friday! The story this week is Sleds on Boston Common It is a story about the Revolutionary War. Our vocabulary words are spunk, governor, navigation, instruct, swagger, patriots, tyrant and stark. We are working with word families and figuring out how suffixes and prefixes change the word meanings. our comprehension skills for the week focus on making inferences and drawing conclusions. Our grammar skill is identifying verbs and making sure that the verb agrees with the subject.
We are reviewing the following RIT words this week. Some of us had a bit of trouble with them on the Maniac Magee test: Hyperbole, metaphor, simile, irony, idiom and personification.
HW: Weekly homework. Flip book is also due on Friday.
Math~
We continued practicing adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers.
HW: Study Link 6.9
Science~
We learned about renewable and nonrenewable energy resources today.
HW: No homework.
