Monday, April 17, 2006

Happy Monday!

Here is what we did today:

Math: We made it back to the book today. We discussed multiplying decimals by powers of 10. The student's learned the "Decimal Slide" a Mrs. D creation! Ask your child to show you what they have learned. Problem set 111 was assigned and is due on Tuesday.

Science: Today we discussed lesson 2 of chapter 15 dealing with circuits. The students looked at flashlights and we discussed simple circuits. The students were given a review sheet to do for tomorrow.

Social Studies: We discussed LEAD today. We have a visitor tomorrow.

English/ Writing: We had a writing prompt to do in class.

Reading: In Mrs. D's class we began reading a new story called Hitler's daughter. We also had a visitor today! Ask your child who we got to meet!

In Mr. H's class we read chapters 9 and 10 in The Art of Keeping Cool.

Spelling: Unit 31 is our lesson this week. We wrote our words five times each. This weeks words are: diamond, handsome, truly, camera, language, beautiful, government, umbrella, thorough, judgment, separate, suppose, chocolate, route, cousin, sincerely, address, poison, although, although, skiing. We will have our pretest tomorrow and our final test on Friday.

Have a fabulous evening!