Welcome back to school.  I hope everyone had a great weekend.

The Make-A-Wish Golf Outing and Silent Auction was an AMAZING success! Thank you so much for all of your support.

Art Smart is this Wednesday!

Language Arts

Book orders are due on Wednesday. 

Mondays are always busy days as we introduce the vocabulary and skills that we will be reviewing throughout the week.  Today the students went to IMC and music.  We came back to class and got straight to work.  We took our spelling pretest and got our homework for the week together.  Our grammar skill of the week is singular (single) and plural (plenty) nouns.
We then introduced our story vocabulary:  overheard, opportunities, border, unions, strikes, citizen and boycotts.  Our comprehension skills for the week are generating questions and making inferences.  Our story is My Diary from Here to There.

RIT Words.
Consonance - The repetition of consonant sounds.  Although it is similar to alliteration, consonance is not limited to the first letters of words.
Irony - An expression in which the author says one thing but means just the opposite.
Anecdote - A brief story used to make a point.
Parallelism -  Repeating similar word or phrases to give writing rhythm
Allusion - A reference to a familiar person, place thing or event.

HW:  Weekly Work and Diary Entry #1


Math: We had a great trip to Egypt today.  We had many great discussions as we started the "World Tour" section of our Math book.  A lot of information was read and shared about this country.


HW: Math box and study link 3.6 are due tomorrow.


Social Studies: (Grannan) We all came together today to teach one another about the early groups that came to America.  It's always fun to learn from one another.


HW: A look ahead...the chapter 3 test is scheduled for next Wednesday, 10/13!