Back To A Normal Week!

It's good to be back in our normal routine on such a beautiful day!

LA: Mondays are so busy as we introduce the skills for the week!
Spelling - We took our pretest this morning over words with the /ar/ sound in them. Students should know what list they are to study for Friday's test.
Grammar - We continue our study of sentences. Today we began looking a complex sentences using conjunctions. Today we introduced new conjunctions to go with those we learned about last week. They are: and, but, or, after, although, as, because, before, if, since, so that, until, when, whether and while.
Vocabulary - Our words are mission, disasters, environment, zone, gravity, maze, adjusted, and function. We continue to work with context clues to help us figure out meanings of unfamiliar words.
Comprehension - Our story this week is a non-fiction story about Space Camp. We will be working on the skill of finding main ideas and summarizing.
Our RIT words for the week include the following:

• Consonance - Is the repetition of a consonant sound in sentence. (dark deep dread crept in)

• Tone - Is the attitude the writer has toward the subject and audience he is writing for. For example the tone of this week's story is informative. The tone of the tall tale we read 2 weeks ago was humorous.

• Colloquialism - Is a common spoken expression. It is informal language. An example might be "What's up?" Often a colloquialism is regional. Do you call that fizzy beverage a coke (no matter the brand), a soda, or pop?

• Pun - Is a play on words for humorous effect. For example, a boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

• Climax - Is the turning point of a story and is often the part that is most intense. In the Davy Crockett story, the climax would be when the comet dives into the Atlantic Ocean to try and drown Davy.

HW: Don't forget weekly homework packet is due Friday. Also-if you have not turned in your 15, Maybe 16 Things To Worry About poem, it is due tomorrow.

Math: We took a time out today to review some multiplication skills. We are working on multiplying double and triple digit numbers. This is not coming easy to many of us. If you know you are struggling with basic multiplication facts, it's time to master them!

HW: Multiplication packets are due tomorrow if they weren't turned in today.

Social Studies: We had a great time working on our 3-D land form projects again with Mrs. Suddarth's class. Today we painted our landforms and prepared to assemble them, which we will be doing tomorrow.

HW: None

Don't forget:

• PTO Meeting on Wednesday at 10:00. There will be an Art Smart meeting immediately following.
• Northpoint is in the midst of their donation drive. Our PTO has chosen to do this instead of the normal fundraiser. Please consider making a donation to help support the many amazing PTO sponsored events.
• We are collecting Box Tops! Please send them in!

Things to watch for in blue folders tonight:

• PTO newsletter