Bound Predicates

Students have learned what bound predicate words are.  Bound predicates require a completer; They cannot stand alone in a sentence.  The completers can be predicate expanders, equal to the subject, a receiver of the action, a subject describer, or an action predicate.  Bound predicates are diagrammed in a special way.  The bound predicate words are:
am
is
are
was
were
may
might
must
be
being
been
can
could
would
should
have
has
had
will
shall
do
does
did
grow
remain
appear
become
seem or stay
The 5 Sense words

New Social Studies unit- The West

The varied West includes Alaska and Hawaii as well as Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada.  The Hawaiians were among the first people of the West although the islands did not become United States territory until the early 1900's.  With the discovery of gold in California in the late 1840's, the West experienced a surge in population.  Today the West continues to grow as industries such as film and high technology attract newcomers.  The growth presents challenges to the West as it tries to supply energy and transportation.

Anthology Story

In Anthology students are reading a story called My Name is Maria Isabel.  To build background on this story, they learned about Hanukkah.  Our theme is called "problem solvers" so in this story, Maria faces a problem that she has to figure out how to solve.  Students will be working on the strategies of noting details and making predictions as well as answering questions about what they read.

Math Topic 14

Our new math unit is on area and perimeter.  Parents should have received a letter in last week's Thursday folder telling you more information.
-Area: the number of square units needed to cover a region
-Perimeter: the distance around an object
Students will learn how to find the area of simple rectangular shapes as well as parallelograms and triangles.  They will be able to differentiate and relate perimeter and area.  Please make sure your child is completing their homework. 

Anthology Vocabulary for Maria Isabel story

Key Vocabulary	Definition	Sentence
Attentively (p.404)	With attention or alertness	The rest of the kids listened attentively, but Maria Isabel just kept looking down at her desk.
Disappointed (p.398)	Feeling like things didn’t go the way you had hoped	She knew they were going to be very disappointed when they saw the other kids in her class taking part in the play.
Misunderstanding (p.398)	A failure to understand	It’s all a big misunderstanding…. If only there was some way I could let her know.
Nervously (p.404)	With concern, worry, or fear	Maria Isabel walked nervously up to the front of the room and stood next to the teacher, who was strumming her guitar.
Troublesome (p.401)	Causing problems	Maria Isabel felt that she was caught in a sticky, troublesome spider’s web of her own…
Revolved (p.395)	To be centered around a particular thing	Everything at school now revolved around plans for the Winter Pageant.

Guided Reading

In Guided Reading, groups have been reading the following books:
-The Reef
-Vikings
-Losing Grandpa
-Treasure at Puget Sound
You can ask your child to summarize these books for you.

I'm back! and Math Topic 9

Thank you all for making my first day back so wonderful!  Now, onto school...

Wow!  We have a lot of vocabulary in Topic 9 over Lines, Angles, and Shapes.

• point
• line
• plane
• parallel lines
• intersecting liens
• perpendicular lines
• line segment
• ray
• angle
• right angle
• acute angle
• obtuse angle
• straight angle
• degree
• protractor
• polygon
• side
• vertex
• triangle
• quadrilateral
• pentagon
• hexagon
• octagon
• equilateral triangle
• isosceles triangle
• scalene triangle
• right triangle
• acute triangle
• obtuse triangle
• parallelogram
• rectangle
• square
• rhombus
• trapezoid