Interesting Fact of the Day: There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
Don't forget that we are still collecting non perishable food items to STUFF-A-TRAILER with on Wednesday. Please, please, please consider donating some canned or boxed food.
LA: Today we began our new novel study. We will be spending the next several weeks reading and learning language arts skills by reading "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli. This book is the legend of a boy who completely changed a town by his actions. We will be using Rit words and higher level thinking skills as we read each day. Today, we focused on metaphors, foreshadowing, irony, imagery, external conflict, symbolism, cause and effect, hyperbole's, similes and main ideas. Everyday, the students will have comprehension questions, a journal entry and a vocab quiz. The first vocab quiz is tomorrow. We had a great discussion about some of the mature topics that will be brought up in this book. I'm really looking forward to sharing this with our class.
We will still be doing spelling and grammar everyday. There will still be a spelling test, grammar test, and weekly assessment on Friday
HW: Finish questions and journal entry. Study for vocab quiz.
Math: Our focus today was on turning fractions into percents using a calculator. We did a lot of practice with this skill.
HW:Math box and study link 5.8 are due tomorrow. The test over Unit 5 will be next Wednesday.
Social Studies: (Grannan) We dove into the 7 explorers other than Christopher Columbus today during Social Studies. While reading, we found things out such as their personal background, sponsors, times they explored, what they did for a living. It was a lot of fun to learn so much about these important men!
HW: None
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