October 5th – 9th
Math: Continuing from last week, we will be working on decimals, place value, rounding and estimating, and adding/subtracting of decimals. A quiz is scheduled for Tuesday, October 6th. PLEASE know that for every quiz and test, I have the students write down the exact directions, or instructions, they will see for the upcoming quiz/test. This means that there are NO surprises when it comes to tests and quizzes; students know exactly what they’re going to be tested on and exactly how they will be tested on it. For the Chapter 2 Quiz on Tuesday, students wrote down the exact instructions this past Friday (10.2.09). To better help them with this quiz, they also wrote down a page number and problem numbers for examples that correspond with each set of instructions. Try to get your child developing great study habits. Like they were told on Thursday and Friday: it is not good enough to start studying on Monday night. Studying should begin a good three to four days in advance; that way, if any questions or concerns arise, students have enough time to contact me for help!
English: Work with sentence structure has moved on from studying subjects and predicates to the six ways to start a sentence: subject, conjunction, adverb, adjective, participle, and prepositional phrase. The idea is for students to be able to vary their sentence structures while writing. To get a better idea of this concept, see how the same sentence changes below:
Starting with a…
subject: The nervous man tripped as he was walking quickly down the street. conjunction: Because he was walking quickly, the nervous man tripped down the street. adverb: Quickly walking, the nervous man tripped down the street. adjective: Nervous, the man tripped as he walked quickly up the street. participle: Walking quickly, the nervous man tripped down the street. prepositional phrase: As he was walking quickly, the nervous man tripped down the street.
Most writers start their sentences with a subject; by varying sentence openers, writers make their work varied and flow smoothly together. A short test on sentences (predicates and subjects as well as sentence openers) is scheduled for Thursday, October 8th.
