5V News

We are learning about:

• Inferring
• Publishing our writing
• Traditional multiplication
• Native American civilizations

Some activities we did this week:

• Reviewed for our unit 2 math test
• Took our unit 2 math test
• Studied and discussed "trans" vocabulary words
• Made inferences using advertisements from magazines that had one item covered
• Used the netbooks to type and revise our stories
• Decided on the "so what?" of our stories
• Designed our Native American books
• Continued listening to Something Upstairs by Avi
• Had a Halloween celebration
• Researched the parts of speech during computer in order to make a brochure  
• Read with our second grade reading buddies
• Learned about analogies and how to solve them  
• Created envelope and tag templates to use in our altered books

Notes and reminders:

• Instead of weekly math for the next two weeks student will be working on a geometry picture.  Directions will go home on Monday and it will be due Friday, November 18th.  
• Early releases- Wednesday, November 9th and 16th 
• No school- Thursday, November 10th and Friday, November 11th
• We have been discussing the importance of reading at home whether it's thirty minutes a night or spread out in different increments. 

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