Our spelling paragraph this week is:
Benjamin Franklin is a well known patriot, author, and inventor. He was born in 1706 and died at the age of 84. This was amazing, because most people only lived to 60 years old. Because his family had twelve children, he had to quit school at the age of ten to go to work. As an adult, he married Debbie and had one son named William. Some of his inventions include stoves, eyeglasses, and he started the first post office. However he is most remembered for his discoveries on electricity and lightening. As you can see, Benjamin Franklin greatly impacted our world.
The test will be on Friday.
We are finishing up our unit on communities. Our story is "What Ever Happened to Baxter's Place?". This story is a review of skills covered over the unit which are prefixes, suffixes, parts of speech, and genre. Students are learning MAP terms like: personification, alliteration, idioms, metaphor, simile, and theme.
In math we continue to focus on graphing. We have talked about frequency, mode, median, and just briefly covered mean. Our test for this chapter will be on Friday. Students seem to have a good grasp on this information.
Writing focus is word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and voice. Students will be writing their own biographies and bio poems. A good topic for home might be the difference between an autobiography and a biography. Next week, students will be reading a variety of biographies and presenting their favorite, in costume, to their classmates.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
April 5th
Amazing it's April! I hope you all had an enjoyable and restful spring break.
Math this week, we will begin chapter 12 which is focused on graphing. Hopefully you noticed the labels I put on your child's folder giving you access to the Math Connects website. Another website to practice coordinate graphs is:
http://funbasedlearning.com/algebra/graphing/default.htm
We will also be working on probability next week. This is a great practice website:
http://www.hbschool.com/activity/balloon_bonanza/
In reading, we are reading a realistic fiction story entitled "The Disappearing Island". Thank you so much for making sure your child had their grade level chapter books completed for today when they returned. Many passed the AR tests with flying colors. Hopefully, this will encourgage students to challenge themselves with longer stories.
Spelling will be a bit different this week. We will be practicing writing 3 sample paragraphs focusing on word choice, details, and spelling. On Friday, the "test" will be writing their own paragraph. I will be grading this for spelling, content, word choice, etc. It is an assessment to see if all the hard work they have done this year is sticking with them.
Enjoy your week!
Math this week, we will begin chapter 12 which is focused on graphing. Hopefully you noticed the labels I put on your child's folder giving you access to the Math Connects website. Another website to practice coordinate graphs is:
http://funbasedlearning.com/algebra/graphing/default.htm
We will also be working on probability next week. This is a great practice website:
http://www.hbschool.com/activity/balloon_bonanza/
In reading, we are reading a realistic fiction story entitled "The Disappearing Island". Thank you so much for making sure your child had their grade level chapter books completed for today when they returned. Many passed the AR tests with flying colors. Hopefully, this will encourgage students to challenge themselves with longer stories.
Spelling will be a bit different this week. We will be practicing writing 3 sample paragraphs focusing on word choice, details, and spelling. On Friday, the "test" will be writing their own paragraph. I will be grading this for spelling, content, word choice, etc. It is an assessment to see if all the hard work they have done this year is sticking with them.
Enjoy your week!
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