An Exciting Election Day!

Some of us returned to school today a little sleepy.  It was exciting to watch the results of our presidential election on television last night.  We watched to see who won each state's electoral votes, and it was a close race. President Obama ended with 303 electoral votes, while Mitt Romney had 206.  President Obama had a total of 59,725,608 votes, and Mitt Romney had 57,098,650.   In the end, President Obama was elected to serve the country as our president for the next four years.  What an exciting day it was!

We enjoyed an exciting day of learning today, too!  In Language Arts, we worked on combining sentences to make them more fluent.  Some pairs of sentences had common subjects, and others had common predicates.  We worked to combine subjects or predicates to avoid having them sound choppy.  We will continue to practice with many examples.  

In Social Studies, we explored the culture of western Africa.  The students saw a short National Geographic video clip, and they viewed many pictures of art, traditional dress, food, etc.  They also worked on their fables.  Many are shaping up nicely.

Homework:
Math - Pg. 106 (both sides)
Reading - Read Ch. 1&2 in The Westing Game.  Complete role for cafe. 
Writing - Combining sentences activity
Science - Bring in alien materials
Wellness - Ch. 4-1 questions and vocabulary due Friday, along with exercise log.
SHARE YOUR REPORT CARD WITH YOUR PARENTS.  RETURN ENVELOPE SIGNED, AS WELL AS SLIP FOR PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES.
Mrs. Friday's Assignments:
Spelling - comprehension, sentences, 2 wk.bk. pages
Math - 1/2 Simplifying Fractions w.s. - group 1 and 4 Tables w.s. - group 2