I was out sick yesterday so here is all of the info for the week. Thanks for the generous donation of cans. So far we have collected 74 cans. The cans are being picked up tomorrow.
LA~ Our story for the week is Dear Mr. Winston. It is humorous fiction. Our comprehension skill for the week is making inferences and generating questions about what we read. Our vocabulary words for the week are weekdays, apologize, cardboard, harmless, slithered, ambulance and genuine. We are focusing on base words this week: harm means hurt or injury. Harmless is without hurt or injury. Our grammar skill continues to be possessive and plural nouns. Last week's grammar test was not pretty. We will continue to review this skill for this week's test. In spelling we continue to work with r-controlled vowel sounds.
Common Core Vocabulary:
Humorous Fiction, encyclopedia, toolbar, parts of a letter: heading, inside address, greeting, body, closing, and signature.
HW: Weekly Homework
Math~ Yesterday we took a test over unit 4. Today we jumped into unit 5. Our focus today was on extended math facts. Basically we reviewed the rule that if one of the factor ends in zero we can add a zero to the answer: 8 *6 =48 then 80*6=480 and 80*60=4800.
HW: Math boxes and Study Link 5.1
Science~ We continued to look at plant and animal adaptations that help things survive in their environment. Our focus today was plants and fossils. Don't forget content 1 has a test next Monday.
HW: Worksheets on hibernation and pretending to sleep adaptations.
