Marvelous Monday

Language Arts~
First things first - No spelling and no weekly homework this week due to the short week.  Today we reviewed past concepts.  We worked on plurals, possessives, capitalization and punctuation of titles.  We also reviewed parts of a book and how to use an online encyclopedia.  We looked at some concrete poetry.  Our focus was on figurative language and alliteration.  We wrote some poetry of our own.

HW:  None

Math~
Today our focus was on estimating.  We reviewed extended multiplication facts and estimating sums.  We learned about estimating products.  For each problem we wrote a number sentence and made a magnitude estimate.  Magnitude estimates are really just figuring out what place value the answer will be.  For example in the problem 4 X 28, the magnitude estimate would be 100s because the answer would be in the 100s place.

HW:  Math boxes and study link 5.4

Science~
Show what you know day.  The students took the chapter 4 test and worked on adaptations worksheets. 

HW:  Finish up the worksheets.  They are due on Wednesday.