Please see the cute pictures from the read-a-thon in the post below. Thank you again to all who were involved! I can not believe that next week will be the first week of November! This year is really flying by. I am so blessed to have this amazing job. I hope you all have a fun Hallo-weekend!
Best,
Ms. Caro
Wish List
Antibacterial wipes
Tissues
Hand Sanitizer
Test and Quiz Schedule:
Monday: Math Quiz (Multiplication)
Tuesday: None
Wednesday: None
Thursday: Grammar Quiz (4 types of sentences)
Friday: Spelling Test and Science Quiz (Skeletal System)
*Please continue to work on your Pinocchio Projects at home.
Poetry Selection (Recitation Friday, December 11)
from Julius Caesar (Act III, ii, 76-109)
by: William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Language Arts:
In Spalding we are going forward with our word list in O, we will also be taking our monthly Spalding benchmark on Monday; this is purely to track student progress and not entered as a grade. In Writing we'll be reading the epic of Gilgamesh and putting the ancient tale into a 3 sentence summary. In Grammar we will continue to explore the 4 sentence types and classify sentences by labeling all of the parts of speech, identifying sentence type, and separating the complete subject from the complete predicate. Our Pinocchio journey is well underway, we are actively exploring how Pinocchio would be better equipped to make good choices has he only gone to school! In poetry we are starting a new selection from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to compliment our Rome unit.
Math:
We are beginning our division unit by introducing students to quotient and remainder. We will practice dividing 2 and 3 digit numbers by 3, 4, and 5 throughout the week.
History:
We are discussing the fascinating topic of the Roman gods and goddesses and discussing Roman myths. By the end of the week we will be learning about how Roman society was set up and considering the difference in the lives of Plebeians and Patricians.
Science:
We will go forward in our study of the skeletal system by observing what happens when a bone is place in vinegar for an extended amount of time. Please click here to review the study guide on the skeleton. We will look at different types of bone and joints.
