Rested and Ready!

Team Enterprise returned to school after the long Labor Day weekend, rested and ready. We followed our regular schedule today! As teachers, we continue to be impressed by the students. We have settled in with daily procedures, and everyone is trying to be prepared with papers and materials.

In Language Arts, we began our first skill lesson and received our first spelling list. The skill we will practice throughout the week is sequence. Today, we applied this to a short story, and we found clue words to help us find order. Our first story is Tony and the Snark.

The 6+1 Traits of Writing were introduced today! They are ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation. Our focus in the beginning will be ideas. We are looking forward to writing and becoming better writers.

Our focus in Social Studies today was on The Five Themes of Geography. We reviewed each theme and discussed examples of each. These themes will apply to all we learn throughout the year in Social Studies. Themes and map skills will be reviewed and practiced as the month goes on.

During Exploratory, this week and next, our sixth graders will visit each sixth grade teacher to become acquainted. Following this brief rotation, the students will be scheduled for their true exploratory sessions. Sixth grade has chosen Wednesday as a make-up day.

In Math today we were introduced to exponents. Remember that an exponent tells us how many times to multiply the number to itself. We also reviewed the many different ways to write numbers.

Today we enjoyed working on the Promethean Board exploring the meaning of observation and inference. The students then created a poster reflecting an inference. Tomorrow we will continue working on the posters and then exchange them.


Homework:
Language Arts - Share "Family Times" paper with your parents! Complete trace +2 for spelling tomorrow. Your quizzes will be next Tuesday.
Social Studies (group 202 only) - Give examples for the theme of "Place" and begin looking for examples from magazines.
Math- Page 10 7-26
Science- continue working on your posters.

Chorus - Bring in form.
Phys.Ed. - Bring in form.