Week of Nov. 9-13

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HOMEWORK: 
Reading:    
Some students need to finish the summary of Chapter 6.
Read your book for the Nov/Dec Book Project
   
Blowers Book Report Students received the paper with 4 options for their book report and we have discussed these projects. Due Date: Dec 9                                                                                                           
 
MATH   - Mrs. Custer
Our unit on place value is finished and the tests will be corrected by the end of the weekend, with grades for all 4 standards listed individually in PowerSchool.  Next up is multiplication and division of fractions. 

Language Arts
BLOWERS Writing: 
 This week we read an article where 2 sides are given as to whether kids should receive allowance or not. As a class we followed and filled in a very specific outline according to the side chosen. Then students took the information from that outline and wrote it into a persuasive paper. This was a practice run. We reviewed several together discussing tone, how to add details in their own words, and how to not be "wishy-washy", but rather tell people they should agree, not they "hope" others will agree. Next week we will have anyone who wants to read their "Bad Case" story do so and then do mini-lessons about some writing traits.

READING: with Mrs. Blowers
We completed Chapters 5 and 6 in Guests. We worked on vocabulary, meanings of figurative language and choosing the most important events of the story to write a summary. Some students may have their summary to complete and they were told to write this in planners.
 
Social Studies with Mrs. Custer

This week we investigated a primary source that was a patent from King Henry VII of England to John Cabot.  We learned a lot about early European explorers, as well as the style of writing and grammar that was used in the late 1400s.

Science with Mrs. Blowers
We continue to talk balanced and unbalanced forces by moving into investigations about simple machines. We completed other investigations and began reviewing for the test over balanced and unbalanced forces which will be Thursday.

 Spelling:  
  Spelling Lesson 8 Test was Friday. 
Next week's Lesson 9 skill is comparatives and superlatives: great, greater, greatest, for example. I suggest students study the spelling list on the blog.