Welcome November!

I hope everyone had a relaxing Fall Break! Mine was busy, but productive!

Interesting Fact of the Day: There are more plastic flamingos in the United States than there are real ones.

LA: We started Unit 2 today.  Our first story is titled, Shiloh.  Many students said they have read this as a chapter book as well.  In grammar we are working on common and proper nouns.  Our practice skill this week is using inferences to find out information that is not spelled out for us directly in the text.  We're also going to be continuing to review idioms and how photographs help us to better understand text.  The vocabulary words for the week are: decency, slurp, injury, sympathy, delivering, mournful, shrieks and bulletin board.

Our RIT words for the week are:
Allusion-A reference to a very familiar person, place, thing or event.
Atmosphere-The mood prevailing a literary work particularly created by the setting; helps establish the expectations and attitude of the reader.
Dialect-The speech pattern of a region or class.
Falling Action-The part of the story or play that works out the decision arrived during the climax.
Monologue-Speech by one character to him/herself or the reader/audience.

HW: Weekly homework packet is due Friday.  Please be sure to bring back your writer's workshop book that you wrote with Mrs. Helman.


Math: We jumped into unit 5 today, which focuses on fractions.  We spent the day working together to figure out fractions of a set and reviewing how to reduce fractions to their simplest terms.

HW: Math box and study link 5.1, along with the extra sheet are all due tomorrow.


Social Studies: (Woods) We finished up reading the summary and Reading Further sections from chapter 4 today.  We also took our Northeast Region quiz. 

HW: Pages 24-25 of your interactive student notebook are due on Friday.  The chapter 4 test will be given on Friday.  Study guides were passed out early last week.