This week 9/28-10/2

Reminders:
***Our fourth home challenge menu is due this Friday. My email is aforino@reyn.org if you need to email me pictures or videos***
***T-shirt Citizenship Design Challenge is due next Friday 10/9***


Reading: This week are taking an online quiz to show our knowledge of recounting, character traits, and morals. This is also practice with the online test format. Students will have multiple choice, short answer, and extended response. They will be expected to use evidence from the stories they read to support their answers and type answers when needed. Some answers may require more than one answer (it will indicate how many) so students need to read carefully.

Writing: This week we will be trying to find research to support our different opinions about flavored milk in school. Should it stay in school or be taken out? The students will look for reasons/examples to support where they stand on the issue. We will also be using google documents for the first time to type a paragraph with the ten character traits they feel represent them that they identified last week. They will digitally share this paragraph with me so I can make suggestions and give it back to them to edit.

Science/Social Studies: This week we are discussing citizenship with regards to rights and responsibilities. We will be discussing our rights and responsibilities at home, school, our community, and our country. We will also be working on our cardboard design challenge. We will be drawing blue prints of one or two of our ideas and labeling the components. We will be split into groups to discuss the function of each of our ideas so we can narrow them down next week.


Grammar: We will be practicing with adjectives this week. Reminder that adjectives describe a noun.

***Practice Ideas at Home :

1. Adjective online games:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/adjectives.htm
http://www.turtlediary.com/kids-games/ela/adjectives.html

2. Practice recounting fables and identifying the morals by reading these online fables:
http://www.taleswithmorals.com/