I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
Language Arts~
Today we took our spelling pretest over long o words. We filled in our homework packets. Our Story this week is called The Raft. We will be working on context clues, characters, settings, plot, and run-on sentences in class. Disgusted, raft, scattered, cluttered, downstream and nozzle are our story vocabulary. Our Common Core Vocabulary includes plot, context clues, purpose, audience, and voice. Plot includes the events in a story. Context clues provide help in the text when we don't know what a word means. Purpose, audience, and voice all go with writing standards. Purpose is why we write something. Our audience is who we are writing to and our voice is making sure that our personality shows through in or writing.
We reviewed our vocabulary and comprehension skills. We also worked on fixing run-on sentences by using conjunctions or splitting the sentences in two simpler sentences. We listened to the story.
HW: Weekly Homework is due on Friday
Math~
Our focus today was on subtraction. We subtracted numbers with regrouping today. The focus of our board work today was reviewing for Thursday's math test. We will spend a few minutes each day and the majority of Wednesday reviewing for the test.
Tomorrow we have acuity testing. This test will help us plan further math instruction. Students may chew sugar-free mint gum while taking the test.
HW: Weekly homework and Study Link 2.9
Science~
We are already finishing up chapter 2. We reviewed the study guide that we have been filling in together. Then we learned about acquired traits and talked about how dogs used learned behaviors and instincts to help us. Test is on Friday!
HW: Science Worksheet is due on Wednesday.
