Reminders:
***Our seventh home challenge menu and mask is due Friday. My email is aforino@reyn.org if you need to email me pictures or videos***
***Conferences are Oct 22nd and Oct 28th. Please sign up on the link below***
***Lunch with a Loved one is tomorrow***
***Scholastic Book Fair is next week!***
***Carnival/Global Cardboard Challenge Showcase is next Friday Night 10/23 from 6:00-8:00***
Reading: This week we are taking our second quarter pretest in reading to show what we may already know about the content being taught this week as well as areas we need to spend more time on. We will also be taking our first quarter post-test to show what we learned the first quarter. I am excited to see improvements from our pretest at the beginning of last quarter. We are starting to look at character motivations as well as character traits. Character traits is a review from last quarter, but motivations is new. We will be looking at WHY characters behave the way they do using evidence from the story.
Writing: This week we will continue to research if flavored milk should stay in our school or if we should get rid of it. I have given suggestions to help students improve their letters and they will be working on using the suggestions to edit and correct their letters this week.
Language: We are starting figurative language this quarter. We will start by learning about similes and why authors may use them when they write.
Science/Social Studies: This week we are finishing our cardboard design challenges. We have also been given the opportunity to write and publish a book created by our class. We will be using a Thanksgiving theme in hopes of reading it to the younger grades closer to the holiday. This week we will do the rough drafts of our writings.
***Practice Ideas at Home :
1. Matching similes online game
https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/vocabulary/matching-similes.htm
2. Super Simile online game
http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/similiframe.htm
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