Housekeeping~
The following is a note from Mrs. Colborn about picture retakes:
Please remind students and parents about retakes on Wednesday morning. I have forms in the office if parents are looking for them. They can not use the same form from the first picture date. If they didn't like their student's pictures and want retakes for that reason, they need to send their package back in with their student on Wednesday. Let me know if you have questions.
Mrs. Wirth also asked us to remind everyone that students should not be coming back to the classrooms for forgotten homework or personal items. It is a safety issue because we can't be certain that there will be adequate supervision in the classrooms and coatrooms. Also many teachers may have confidential papers on their desks. We are trying to help students learn to be responsible. Thank you for your help in this matter.
Language Arts~
We are going back to the big green reading book this week. We Will revisit more Greek myths later this year.
Today we took our spelling pretest. Our grammar focus this week is going to be on nouns. We practiced finding common nouns in sentences today. We introduced our story vocabulary, common core vocabulary and comprehension skills.
Story Vocabulary: legendary, muttered, gaped, snickering, insult, fluke and flinched. Our skill this weeks is using the descriptions around a word to help us figure out the word.
Common Core Vocabulary: common nouns, proper nouns, author's purpose, entertain, inform, persuade and persuasive.
Comprehension Skills: Our focus this week will be on determining the author's purpose. We will practice inferring the author's purpose from clues in the story.
We listened to the story and did a worksheet to practice our vocabulary and comprehension skills,
HW: We are back to the weekly homework this week. There are a couple of changes to the packet.
Each student is expected to read the story out loud to practice fluency at home. The story vocabulary need to be practiced. The Common Core Vocabulary is for your information. We will review these concepts all week long. Students are not expected to the the think and compare questions at home. We will complete these at school. There is also a story to read and some questions to answer. Please remember that reading the story in the green book, or the attached story in the homework packet, or even social studies and science all count for the 20 minutes. Let me know if you have any questions about homework.
Math~
Our focus today was on open sentences. We learned that when a letter stands for an unknown number it is considered a variable. When we figure out what number the letter stands for it is solving the open sentences. The number is then called the solution. We practiced solving open number sentences and reviewed work with true and false sentences on white boards. We also played a broken calculator game. We had several journal pages to work on. We ran out of time so we will work on those journal pages again tomorrow.
HW: Study link 3.11
Science~
We focused more on different interactions in a community. We reviewed produceres, consumers, predators, and pray. We reviewed herbivores, carnivores, omnimvores and decomposers. We learned about parasites and competetion.
HW: Before you Move on questions at the bottom of page 111.
