This Week in Room 120
Week of April 7, 2014
Announcements:
Friday will be a Late Start.
Reader's Workshop
This week we will be studying
- Irony
- Connotative Word Meanings
- Characters can be multidimensional
Writer's Workshop
This week the students will be continuing to plan their narrative stories:
- a setting must have appropriate level of detail
- show, not tell, how characters feel
On Thursday, the students will begin to draft their narrative stories.
Word Study
This week we will be studying how the suffix -ity changes an adjective into a noun.
Some of the words we will be studying:
whimsicality, acceptability, complexity, stability, austerity
Math
Group 1 - This group will be working to divide multi-digit numbers and decimals. We will also be reviewing coordinate grids, perimeter and area of complex figures, comparing fractions, and ordering fractions.
Group 2 - This group will be working with expressions, equations, inequalities, functions, and will be learning to multiply fractions. We will also be reviewing how to add and subtract fractions.