Tuesday, November 7th

Interesting Fact of the Day: If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A."

Don't forget that we are collecting can goods for our Stuff-A-Trailer event on November 16th.  2  families donated items today.  Thank you parents for helping us meet the needs of other families in the community.

LA: This morning, we  reviewed the different ways of making a noun plural during our grammar lesson.  We read and discussed the story "Rattlers" in our reading books.  We paid special attention to the main ideas and supporting details of each section and how that helps us to better understand the overall story.   We learned that amphi and ambi means both in our vocab vine time.  We also reviewed our RIT words.

HW:  Keep working on the weekly homework, it's due Friday and read 20-30 minutes.

Math~
Today we began working with fractions and decimals.  Fractions can become decimals in two different ways.  The first way is to divide the numerator by the denominator.  The second way is to use equivalent fractions.  Try to make the equivalent fraction with a denominator of 10 or 100.  Then it is easy to convert to a decimal.

HW:  Journal page139, math box and study link 5.5

Social Studies: (Woods) We began chapter 5 today, where our focus is going to be on 8 specific explorers.  As a class today, we read and learned about Christopher Columbus.  We will begin studying the other explorers on Friday, as we work in groups.

HW: None