Welcome back to school. I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Language Arts~
Today we took our spelling pretest. If students score from 22-25, they will be studying the B list this week. If students score from 17-21, they will be on the O list. Less than 17 right means A list this week. All students should be bringing home their lists and the pretest. We previewed our vocabulary and comprehension skills today. Our story vocabulary includes, endless, realistic, universe, astronaut, sensible, protested and paralyzed. We are also learning all of the things that can be learned from a dictionary entry. Our comprehension skill this week is analyzing characters and setting. We will also be making inferences. In grammar we are taking the compound sentences from last week a little further. We are using conjunctions to make complex sentences. Complex sentences have dependent and independent clauses. The green sentence above is a dependent clause. It cannot stand as it's own sentences. The blue clause is independent. It can be it's own sentence. Our common Core words of the week are complex sentences, characters, setting, analyze and personal narrative.
Book order is due on Wednesday.
HW: Weekly homework came home today. Think and Compare questions are on page 101.
Math~
Today we practiced 2 digit multiplication and long division. We also started learning about data landmarks. We learned the difference between guessing and estimating. We learned that maximum is the largest number in a data set and the smallest number is the minimum. The range is the difference between the two numbers. Mode is the number that occurs most often. Median is the middle number.
HW: Weekly Homework is due on Friday. Study Link and Math boxes 2.5 is due tomorrow.
HOMEWORK ALERT: There was an error in the weekly homework. Please discard the 3 digit times 2 digit multiplication page. Copy error. So Sorry for the confusion!
Science~
A note about the science tests. Last week's science test is coming home today. Most students did either really well or not so well at all. Science is an adjustment this year. From what I understand this is the first time that the kids have taking a science test like this one. I did make some changes to help the students study more. Our next test date is September 27. All students have their study guide for that test. At the end of every lesson we are filling out the study guide together. Then I am asking that each student spends just a couple of minutes (think 5-7) to review that study guide every night. The study guide also has the page numbers where we learned about the concept in case you need more information.
In science today we previewed the chapter vocabulary and learned a little bit about the life cycle of an animal.
HW: If students did not finish in class, they will need to answer the 3 Before you move on questions at the bottom of page 53.
