- Grammar: Review subjects & predicates
- Subject-tells who or what the sentence is about
- simple subject-the main word (s) in the subject
- Predicate-tells what the subject is doing or is
- simple predicate-the main word in the predicate
- Subject-tells who or what the sentence is about
- Comp Skill: Main idea & Key details
- The most important idea in a text
- Look for important details in a text and consider what they have in common to get the main idea.
- Identifying the main idea and key details will help to summarize the text.
- Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes
- a word part added to the end of a word to change its meaning
Math
- Using a rule to calculate area of rectangles
- Using rules to calculate perimeter of rectangles
- Perimeter/area word problems
- M 3 CU 1
- Note: Area and perimeter often get mixed up. Ways we remember the difference...
- perimeter: outside, rim, border, distance around the shape
- P=length + width + length + width
- P = (2 x length) + (2 x width)
- P = (length + width) x 2
- P=length + width + length + width
- area: inside
- A= length x width
- A= length x width
- perimeter: outside, rim, border, distance around the shape
Science
Rock patterns
- Investigative phenomena: If environments change slowly, how can we know what they used to be like.
- Fossils can give clues about what the environment used to be like
- Cracks in earth's layers indicate there were earthquakes
- Students should be reviewing their notes from the scope "Rock Patterns" in preparation for their assessment next week Monday, September 30th.
Misc
- Rotations
- Health w/ Mrs. Cheung
- PE w/ Mr. Banes
- Art w/ Mrs. Au:
- primary colors-red, yellow, blue
- secondary colors-mixing primary colors together to get purple, orange, green
- tertiary colors-mixing primary and secondary colors together to get colors like orange-red, orange-yellow, red-purple, purple-red, etc.
- complementary colors-colors directly across each other on the color wheel
- muted colors-colors tinted with a touch of its complementary color
- Health w/ Mrs. Cheung