Math: I sent the unit assessment parent report home last Friday. Hopefully you've seen it but if you haven't, it's probably in the math section of their binder. Today we had a slight schedule change - we had a shortened math so we just took the pre-assessment for unit four. We have a date with elapsed time tomorrow!

Language Arts: Today we completed our historical fiction novel and read a book, Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers, to help illustrate the difference between fiction and history. Tomorrow, we'll spend a bit of time constructing a T-chart that identifies examples of history and examples that are likely fictional using the same book.

W&M - Tough assignment tonight! They should choose a generalization, list some examples that fit, and try to explain why this particular generalization is usually true. Extremely abstract but this merely starts our discussion tomorrow...

Sarah... - We read chapter one today and discussed the point of view in the story. Tonight they should complete vocabulary activity #1 using their RRJs.

Sword... - We read chapter one today and discussed a few vocabulary words and shared some questions we have to drive our purpose in chapter 2. Tonight they should reread chapter one and "tag" unfamiliar words throughout the chapter.

Anna... They should reread chapter one tonight.

Social Studies: On Friday we had great discussions about our rights and responsibilities. What I found as I listened in on each group is that, understandably, their background knowledge was rather limited. Hopefully, as I left their discussion, they came away some more examples in their own lives that demonstrate a particular right.