Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Tacos Tuesday

We are still collecting canned goods for needy children!!

Language Arts~
We practiced writing singular possessive nouns and plural possessive nouns today.  We also discussed that not every s needs and apostrophe.  We sorted and worked with word meanings for r controlled vowel sounds spelling words.  In reading, we focused on non-fiction.  We read a short article about hamburgers and talked about the figurative language the author used to make the writing more interesting to the reader.  In honor of election day, we read an article about voting and how one votes in the United States.  We also wrote persuasive paragraphs on why it is important to vote.

HW:  Any unfinished work and weekly homework.  A note about the research project:  Weekly homework is still due on Friday.  Children will have to copy their facts to note cards before then for the presentations on Monday.

Math~
Our focus today was measuring using millimeters.  We also converted from millimeters to centimeters.  We completed journal pages 101-104.  We also completed a putting decimals in order from least to greatest practice page.

HW: Math boxes and study link 4.10

Science~
Today we looked at adaptations that help animals eat.  We also did an activity that compared different tools to different types of beaks.

HW:  None