I hope everyone had a great fall break!  It was great seeing all the smiling, rested faces this morning!  

Language Arts~
We began working on this week's skills and concepts this morning.  We took our spelling pretest and filled out our weekly packet.  The story this week is a short nonfiction article, "Stealing Beauty."  It is about stealing cultural artifacts.  Our comprehension skill is determining if information is fact or opinion.  We will make inferences and analyze the text to help maker our determination.  Our vocabulary for this week: temples, dynasties, heritage, preserve, and overjoyed.   Our grammar skill is irregular plural nouns.  Our spelling and phonics focus is complex consonant clusters.  

Our common core words reflect our skills and the different parts of a book:  title page, table of contents, glossary, index, irregular plurals, fact and opinion, expository and nonfiction.

HW:  Weekly Packet is due Friday.  Published book forms are due tomorrow.

Math~
We continued to learn about decimals today.  Our focus today was on how to add and subtract decimals.  We learned that there are 3 things to remember about adding and subtracting decimals.  First, always line up the decimals.  Second, use zeros as place holders to the right of the decimals.  This helps to keep the columns of numbers straight.  Finally, if a number is a whole number the decimal is invisible and always to the right of the ones place.  We completed journal pages 87-89.

HW:  Finish incomplete journal pages, math boxes and study link 4.5

Social Studies: Content 2--We finished up chapter 4's train tour of the Northeast Coast. 

HW: Start using the study guide t o prepare for next Thursday's test over chapter 4.