Monday, September 12, 2005

Happy Monday! We hope that you had a relaxing weekend!

Here is what we did today:

Math: We worked on division today and the students were assigned problem set 26 due on Tuesday.

Science: We looked up our vocabulary for lesson 2 in chapter 2. We did a science in pictures worksheet dealing with cells. We also began to do some review activities for ISTEP! This is a year when Science is tested on ISTEP!

Social Studies: The states and capitals quiz will be on Friday and here are this weeks states and capitals: North Carolina - Raleigh, South Carolina - Columbia, Colorado - Denver, Connecticut - Hartford, North Dakota - Bismark. Today we also worked on vocabulary for pages 33-39 from our textbook.

English/Writing: We worked on proper and common nouns and we had a worksheet looking at this. We also did a writing prompt over hamburger!

Spelling: We will be working with the words from lesson 4 this week. We will have a pretest on Tuesday. Here are this weeks words: LAUNCH, SHAWL, FALSE, AUTHOR, INSTALL, LOSS, BROAD, AUDIENCE, DRAWING, CAUTION, LAWYER, RECALL, ASTRONAUT, OFFICE, SCALD, AUTOMOBILE, DRAWN, BROTH, AWFUL, FLAW. The workbook will be due on Thursday with a final test on Friday!

Reading: In Mrs. D's class we read two tall tale stories one about Paul Bunyon and one about John Henry. The students worked on exaggerating characters of their own and finding exaggerations in the stories. The students also began working on a comprehension worksheet dealing with Vietnamese Holiday's that is due on Wednesday.

In Mr. H's class we read from the Wishgiver pages 57-60. We also did some preparation for the ISTEP.


Have a great weekend! Remember picture day is on Wednesday!