Language Arts: We started our new story, "How Ben Franklin Stole Lightning" this morning. Since this story is a biography, we're also working on some research as weekly homework this week. Be sure to read the directions carefully...oral presentations will start next Monday. This week, we're focusing on problem and solution as well as concrete poetry and possessive nouns.
Our story vocabulary words this week are:
- hilarious
- convinced
- mischief
- independence
- (come in) handy
- dizzy
- whirlwind
- nowadays
- possessive nouns--shows ownership
- biography-a story written about another person's life
- idioms-a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meanings of the separate words.
- alliteration--the repetition of beginning consonant sounds
- onomatopoeia-a word that sounds like the word it is describing
- hyperbole-a huge exaggeration
- figurative language-includes similes, metaphors and other word that create images in the reader's minds.
Math: Today was all about the metric units of measure and how to make conversions properly. We spent quite a bit of time reviewing the notes that had been passed out previously and practicing making conversions on white boards.
HW: Journal page 96 (skip the chart), Math box 4.8 (skip #5), math box 4.9, study link 4.8 (skip the chart) and study link 4.9.
Social Studies: Content 2--students worked with partners today to complete the Reading Further section and then the Interactive Student Notebooks as well. Time for test studying was allowed at the end of class.
HW: Chapter 4 test will be given on Thursday.
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