Monday, April 3, 2006

Happy April!

Here is what we did today:

Math: Today we continued our work with fractions. We continued to work on reducing fractions as well as changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and the reverse. Students worked on two worksheets in class and if they completed them they were checked and handed back for corrections.

Science: Today we began our next chapter dealing with electricity. We watched a short Bill Nye video dealing the electric current..

Spelling: Unit 29 will be studied this week. Today we wrote our words 5 times each. Tomorrow we will have a pretest. This weeks words are: vanity, humanity, sickness, amusement, detective, loyalty, majority, gentleness, argument, humidity, ability, blindness, activity, relative, employment, specialty, creativity, arrangement, swiftness, tardiness.

Reading: In Mrs. D's class we listened to the Children of the Lamp story and we are getting more interested in it every day. We also began a new story. The students chose one of four Dear America books to read this week. Today they were to read the first 20 pages.

In Mr. H's class we started a new book called The Art of Keeping Cool.

Social Studies: We lesson 1 in Chapter 8 discussing the French and Indian War.

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

Have a wonderful evening!