We have a bit of a schedule change this week due to MAP testing in our math classes!
LA: - Today we reviewed language arts skills. We took our spelling pretest and began looking at linking verbs. We also read our story of the week, My Great-Grandmother's Gourd. Our vocabulary words for the week include brimming, gushed, landscape, scorching, parched, scrawny, gnarled, and progress. Our comprehension skill of the week is compare and contrast. Our focus is to see how Fatima's feelings about her grandmother change throughout the story.
Here are our RIT words:
Allusion - a reference to a famous person, place, thing, or idea.
Caricature - A distorted character resulting from the author's deliberate exaggeration of a trait or traits of personality.
Parody - A funny imitation of a serious piece of writing.
Denotation - The dictionary definition of a word.
Connotation - The feelings and images associated with a word.
We also made a good dent in our published books! Please remember that page 1 is due tomorrow. This rough draft must be proofread and corrected by a parent.
HW: Page 1 of the published books are due tomorrow. Weekly homework was assigned and is due Friday.
Math: Today was all about fractions! We reviewed equivalent fractions, adding mixed numbers and reducing fractions.
HW: Due Wednesday--Journal page 252-253, 255-256, study links 8.1 and 8.2. We have MAP testing tomorrow at 8:05.
Social Studies: Welcome back to my home room students. Today we talked about how the American Indians must have felt with the first settlers from Europe started to arrive and claim their lands in the New World. We had a great discussion on the phrase, "First come, first served," and how that may have applied back in the 1400 and 1500 hundreds.
HW: None
We will be going to the Penn Harris Madison Planetarium Wednesday morning with our LA groups.
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