Monday, October 21

Happy Monday! (or is that an oxymoron??) Today was 1 of only 3 normal days this week as we have rehearsal for the fall concert on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. In Science, we continued our work with our culminating activity for Weathering, Erosion and Deposition where we write from the perspective of soil or sand going through a slow and rapid process. We received our review sheet/study guide for Math. Most students didn't finish which is perfectly fine. They should work a little tonight and then bring it back because we will work on it more in class tomorrow. If they finished working in class, I checked over their work and highlighted any incorrect answers for them to fix. Some felt that they were finished but have a LOT of highlighter on their papers... Ask your child to see their study guides. The test will be very similar so if they do well on this review, they should do well on the assessment. The assessment will be THURSDAY since we have rehearsal the next two days. We began a new book for Read Aloud today. Guests by Michael Dorris is a story about Native Americans meeting Europeans when they came to the U.S. It is a great read told from the perspective of the Native Americans instead of what we usually read, from the Europeans. In Reader's Workshop, we read silently and looked for figurative language in our independent reads, worked on an Ohio Studies Weekly about Ohio's first people and played "Drop the Chicken." We then started a new thing where we take a Brain Break between Reader's Workshop and Writer's Workshop. Today, our Brain Break was a dance party! The entire class got a conga line going... :) Finally, we ended our day listening to music while reading the lyrics and picking out figurative language used. We saw similes, metaphors, alliteration, personification, hyperboles and onomatopoeia. All in all a great day!