It's Red Ribbon Week!

Interesting Fact of the Day: Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

Don't forget to wear a hat tomorrow!

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone this week at conferences!

LA: We jumped into the last story of Unit 1 this morning.  It's titled, Pipiolo and the Roof Dogs.  Our vocabulary skill is using a thesaurus to find synonyms.  Our Vocabulary words are canceled, moistened, transformed, cooperation, theory, fragrance, celebration, and variety.  Our comprehension skill is cause and effect.  In grammar, we are focusing on correcting run-on sentences.  More r-controlled vowel sounds in spelling this week.

RIT words
Allegorical Figure - A character who stands for an idea in an allegory.  Aslan stands for love in the Narnia stories.
Metonymy - The substitution of one word for another related word.  For example:  The crown instead of royalty.
Character - (review)  A person in a story.
Syntax - The order and relationship of words in a sentence.  (grammar)
Protagonist - The main character.  Percy Jackson is the protagonist of the Camp Half-Blood series.

HW: Weekly homework packet is due on Thursday

Math: We continued our work on division today, focusing mainly on what to do with remainders.  There are occasions we ignore them, round up using them or times when we need to turn them into fractions or decimals.

HW: Finish journal page 112, complete 113, MB and SL 4.6 and the extra sheet.

Social Studies: (Woods) We took a turn at being deep sea divers today, exploring the remains of a ship wreck from long ago.  We had a great time diving for objects that were either artifacts or natural resources and discussing the importance of each.

HW: Northeast Region test will take place on November 1st.