September 28 - October 2

Announcements this week:
Thanks to the parents who helped us out on our field trip last week! We really appreciate it. It was also great to see so many parents at Back to School Night. We really had a great turn out!

This week in Language Arts... We will start reading another story from our Junior Great Books text, re-read it and take notes, and have a discussion about an open-ended quested related to the text. Students can expect to work on most of this in class, and some at home. We are starting Word Study this week. The nightly assignments are posted on ANGEL but here they are as well:
Monday - SAW Wks -- students sort their words again, alphabetize them, and write them down. Students have their words in a ziploc bag attached to their agendas. This is done on a wks because they will leave their Word Study notebooks with me Monday night.
Tuesday - Word Hunt -- students will look through print materials to find new/different words that follow the pattern they are studying for the week. This is done in the WS notebook.
Wednesday - Star Sentences -- as we begin the writing process, students will work on brainstorming components of a good sentence using a star, then compose that sentence (draft). Students will use their WS words in the sentences. This is done in the WS notebook.
Thursday - Choice Activity -- See pink sheet in the front of WS notebooks.
Friday - Word Study Assessment in class; Week's assignments due today.

Lastly, students will begin Daily Grammar Practice this week. Each morning students will analyze a different part of the same sentence. This week's sentence: we will learn about the civil war in social studies
Monday's task -- correct the capitalization and punctuation
Tuesday's task -- identify the sentence type and purpose
Wednesday's task -- Identify the part of speech of each word in the sentence
Thursday's task-- Identify the parts of the sentence (subject, predicate, objects, etc.)
Friday's task -- diagram the sentence!

Reading --
Wednesday Night - Students should finish re-reading Lenny's Red Letter Day and taking notes on it. Students are expected to have at least 3 notes per page of reading. Notes can include questions, comments, inferences, new vocabulary, or connections. I am looking for understanding/comprehension and active reading skills!

This week in math -- we will wrap up our measurement unit by continuing to explore different things we measure: temperature, elapsed time. We will have a quiz this week as well to assess the students' mastery of the content.
HOMEWORK:
Monday - No Homework
Tuesday - No Homework
Wednesday - No Homework
Thursday -
Friday -

This week in Science... we will finish our Water-in-Apples lab and turn it in for our first science grade. We'll also start a new lab: Using the process of Chromatography we will try to solve a mystery -- which pen wrote the note?!?