ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Tomorrow is a Late Start and also Hat Day!
- Field Trip to OU on Friday
- The Optimist Club will be collecting old blankets, towels, sheets, and newspapers through May 19 for the Oakland County Pet and Adoption Center.
WORD STUDY
Barber: Introduced the word ‘trudge’. Study the spelling of the first 10 words on the wordmasters list.
* TEST THURSDAY.
Brazier: Pictionary!
Kornas: More WordMasters presentations today.
* HOMEWORK: SPELLING TEST TOMORROW, WE RAN OUT OF TIME TODAY.
Martinez: Analogy practice.
MATH
Brazier - Switch One: A model for multiplying fractions
* HOMEWORK: PAGE 40 (problems 1-2)
Brazier - Switch Two: Estimating Sums. Game: “Getting Close”
Martinez - Switch One: Estimating with fractions. When is it good to overestimate? Underestimate?
* HOMEWORK: RE-DO ON HOMEWORK DUE TOMORROW. PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR THINKING.
Martinez - Switch Two: Subtracting fractions using dot paper.
* HOMEWORK: SUBTRACTING FRACTIONS. DUE TOMORROW.
SCIENCE
Barber: Wrap Activity 11 & Activity 12.
Kornas: Review Activity 12 concepts and revisit Activity 10 - Come-back Can Activity to reinforce kinetic and elastic potential energy.
* HOMEWORK: REVIEW NOTES AND ALL ACTIVITIES FOR QUIZ TOMORROW
OPEN NOTE QUIZ TOMORROW.
READING WORKSHOP
Barber: Informational text uses structure to organize. Structure 2: Compare & contrast
Brazier: “Readers summarize as they go.”
Kornas: Independent reading and running records.
Martinez: Informational texts are structured. Compare/Contrast is another kind of structure.
WRITING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Writers use precise words.”
Brazier: “Informational writing links like ideas.”
Kornas: “Informational writers write with audience in mind.” Research in the computer lab.
Martinez: “Informational writers consider their audience by thinking about what they might want to know”
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