February 26th, 2007
Class activities for Monday, February 26
Spelling: Today we reviewed compound words and vowel sounds. The unit 8 worksheets are available here.
Cursive: We have reviewed the entire alphabet, upper and lower case. From now on, the weekly cursive assignment will be to write 10 cursive sentences of 7 or more words each. This assignment will be due Friday.
Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. Some groups practiced looking back into the text to confirm predictions.
Writing: None today due to technology. Students should be close to finished with revising and ready to start editing for their next piece of writing, due this Friday, March 2.
Technology: Students worked on their weather splash screen movies, and also created their own wiki, which is a quick and easy website that anyone can edit.
Math: We practiced estimating sums in the context of a road trip. Homework is to finish journal pp. 120-121.
Science: Students put to work their knowledge of light moving only in straight lines by creating laser mazes.
Social Studies: We sang and listened to some songs about the Underground Railroad and learned that many songs contained coded messages for helping slaves to escape.
- Yellows: 1 magnet
- Oranges: 0 magnets
- Reds: 0 magnets
Ask your student what kind of choices they made.
Notes:
- Juice Volunteers: A new volunteer list will be sent home soon.
- Upcoming Events: New writing piece due (March 2); Straits of Mackinaw field trip (May 11). See the class calendar for more information.
- We are looking for donations of medium and long cardboard tubes (have plenty of short ones, thanks!) for class projects. The tubes can be sent in any time during the year; this project will be on-going. Thanks for any help you can give!
