We're A NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL!

We just received this news today!  What a celebration!  Many, many, many thanks to all of you that help make Northpoint the BEST!

Friday is Gum day for a $1.00.  Money raised goes to support the PTO!

Make-A-Wish golf outing and auction is next Sunday!  You don't have to golf to participate!  You are welcome to come for dinner and to check out the baskets.  Contact Mrs. Stephan or Mrs. Woods for more information!  We have AMAZING things for the auction!

Language Arts
We had  IMC and Gym today.  We came back to class and took our spelling pretest and filled out our weekly homework.  We reviewed nouns in grammar and spent some time identifying common nouns in sentences.  We introduced the vocabulary for this story: legendary, muttered, gaped, snickering, insult, fluke and flinched.  We also discussed author's purpose, this week's comprehension skill.   We listened to the story, "Mighty Jackie."  We even squeezed in time for handwriting.

RIT Words:
Personification - Giving a non-human object human characteristics.  The pencil danced across the page.
Pathetic Fallacy - A lot like personification but has to do mainly with nature.  The clouds wept tears over the empty school.
Pun - a phrase that uses words that sound the same in a way that gives them a funny effect. At a hearing aid center: 'Let us give you some sound advice.'
Slang - A casual spoken language which differs from formal speech. Chat speak is a form of slang.

HW:  Get started on weekly homework.  handwriting pages 26-29 are due tomorrow.


Math: Unit 2 test was given today.


HW: None


Social Studies: (Woods) We jumped into chapter 3 today.  We had a great time looking at a list of 5 things and discussing what out of those items we would miss the most.  We discussed how this tied in with Social Studies and how the United States is made up of a variety of goods from people of all backgrounds.  We also read chapter 3, section 1.


HW: None