Happy 100th Day of School

I can't even begin to believe we have been together for 100 school days already this year.  Where does the time go?  I would like to thank everyone for their patience with me and my blogging (or non-blogging) that has been happening.  I think everyone in my family is finally on the mend, so we should be back to our normal routine starting today!  Whew!

Don't forget that Science Expo projects are due Monday, January 31st!  NO EXCEPTIONS!

LA: Yesterday, our new story began, "The Power of Oil,"  a non-fiction article. It is a persuasive article that helps persuade people to use less oil.  Our vocabulary words are: electrical, globe, fuels, and decayed.  Our comprehension focuses on fact and opinion and persuasion. We listened to the story today as well as working with some special forms of the verbs be and have.  In addition to working with our basal series, we also took some time to complete a 100th day of school writing prompt.  It was a lot of fun doing so much brainstorming.

Our RIT words this week are the same as last-please continue to review.

HW: Weekly homework is due on Friday.  100th day of school writing is due tomorrow and there will be a RIT quiz on Friday, covering the words from 2 weeks ago and these 5 that we've had last week and this week.

Math: We took a time out from the journals and study links today to combine physical exercise, 100th day of school, equivalent fractions, probability and problem solving!  It was  lot of fun to explore just how many things we can do in sets of 100 second intervals.

HW: Finish the 100th day of school activity sheet.


Social Studies: (Grannan) We enjoyed our crop duster tour of South Dakota and Michigan today.  We especially had a lot of fun getting off the plane and creating a "new car" in the Henry Ford style.  We also learned what it might be like to work in an assembly line...some of us found out that maybe we need to work on  our patience a bit.  :)

HW: Finish part B  of the question sheet--due Thursday.

Have you read about the family homework on email yet?  This should have come across last week from Mrs. Stephan's email address.  How are the instruments coming along?  Don't forget that all instruments are due no later than February 25th!  I can't wait to see them!