Today flew by!  We got a lot accomplished today.  We read My Brother Martin in language arts and discussed author's purpose.  No longer is it enough to say the purpose "is to inform".  What is the author trying to inform us about?  The kids will keep their graphic organizer in their binder as a reference.  We also practiced listening comprehension.  I read them a story using the vocabulary words from the story and we discuss.  The kids do not get to see the text, only listen.  We took some time to organize our binders today- see below.  

Estimating in math has been going well!  The kids seem to make most errors on the actual adding or subtracting of the numbers so we practiced that today in math.  They also had some logical reasoning IXL work.  It threw them for a loop at first, but they persevered! Tonight's homework is practice 1.7 both sides. 

We had a reverse evacuation drill today and the kids did wonderfully! 

We finished up our reading on the Fall today in religion.  We will begin reading about Cain and Abel tomorrow.  We also said a prayer that was new to many of us this afternoon.  The Memorare.  We will jump into the meaning of these words and sentences later this week!

We are going to read about bioengineering and solve a problem in nature soon, so to prepare us we explored two websites on the rainforest!  

We ended our day by reading part of social studies lesson the land.  We will finish reading tomorrow and should be able to assign groups for our first group project later this week! A social studies worksheet is homework. 

Spelling words went home today.  This week we are doing it the old fashioned way.  Everyone gets a list and we'll test Friday!

Remember Friday is early release!