Happy Election Day!  It is my hope that you will continue the very important conversations about voting at home that we have started discussing here at school.  We've been learning all about Democracy in Social Studies so this is a perfect carry over to the dinner table.  It was fun hearing from the students that were able to go to the polls this morning with their parents.


LA: We're continuing on with our story this week, and all of the skills that go along with it.  Today, we spent a lot of time working with possessive nouns, both singular and plural.  We also spent some time adding our Common Core words into our glossaries in our binders.  We had a great discussion on figurative language terms as well as biographies.  Each student was given a level reader to learn about an important historical figure as well.  We worked on finding facts, similar to what the weekly homework tasks asks us to do this week.  We finished up the morning by completing a voting worksheet.

HW: Weekly homework is due on Friday.  If leveled readers weren't done in class, they are due tomorrow.  Voting paper is also due tomorrow if it wasn't finished during work time.

Math: We finished up all of the lessons in Unit 4 today, ending with measuring in millimeters for practice.  We also worked on converting centimeters to millimeters as review.

HW: Journal page 103 should have been done with partners in class.  If not completed, it needs to be done tonight.  Also, Math Box and Study Link 4,10 are due tomorrow, along with the conversion sheet.

Social Studies: Content 1--We finished up chapter 4 today by sharing the Reading Further section with a partner.  We then pretended like we were newspaper reporters asking questions of the Mill Workers in Howell, MA.

HW: Study for the chapter 4 test which will be given on Friday.