Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Don't forget, Giving Tree items are due tomorrow.  We are over 50 gifts short of the stars that were taken from the tree!

Language Arts: Unfortunately, we did not have the best behavior in music, therefore we had to spend quite a bit of time reviewing STAR behavior and writing a letter of apology to Mrs. Wehrly.  We also took the quiz over chapters 6-8 and then moved on to chapter 9 before the end of the morning.

HW: Finish comprehension questions and vocabulary from chapter 9.  Make sure the activity from chapters 7-8 is complete as well as the letter to Mrs. Wirth.

Math: We spent quite a bit of time reviewing past concepts and then moved into long division today.  Students were given a lot of work time to work on the following:  Journal pages 144-146, 166-167 and math boxes 6.3 and 6.10, as well as study link 6.3 and 6.10.  It is all work that is due tomorrow.

Social Studies: Content 1--we took the chapter 6 test today. 

HW: None

Monday, December 10, 2012

Monday, December 10

It finally feels like December, as I look out the window and see the first snowflakes starting to fall...

Language Arts: We worked our way through chapters 7-8 in our novel study, Frindle.  I'm so pleased the students seem to be enjoying the book so much.  We are having a fantastic time going through each page, word by word, and finding excellent examples of figurative language.  Since these books are for keeps, we're even marking them up!  Gasp!  :)

We're continuing to work on the You're The Teacher grammar pages.  This is great practice in proofreading work.

HW: Finish chapter 7-8 comprehension questions, venturing into vocabulary words and the character cop entry for Mrs. Granger.

Math: We started in on unit 6 today.  Our focus was multiplication and division number stories, as well as starting to explore different strategies to figure out division of bigger numbers. This will be a short chapter, with a test already planned for next Wednesday.  The students received a study guide today in preparation.

HW: Finish journal page 140, math boxes 6.1 and 6.2, as well as study links 6.1 and 6.2 are due tomorrow.

Social Studies: (Content 2) We had our test over chapter 6.

HW: None