Miss McLaughlin
Daniel Webster School
Pasadena, California
Fifth Grade, Room 201 

           October 27, 2008 - October 31, 2008

 Language Arts 
 

 Class reading -- "Galileo"

 Vocabulary Words

obscure (unclear)
precaution (safety measure)
apparatus (machine)
extraordinary (unusual, surprising, bizarre)
deduction (to make a decision based on facts or clues)
myriads (countless or numberless, more than you can count)
constellation (group of stars with a name)
celestial (heavenly)
blemish (spot or mark, like a flaw)
interrogation (to be asked a lot of questions)

Spelling Words

scrape              danger

favor                stale

daily                explain

great                eight

layer                praise

sleigh               neighbor

hasty                reins

straight             sailors

wavy               crazy

amazed            bathed
 

Math 

Relating Fractions and Decimals

 Number Sense 1.5

I can recognize and write decimals, fractions, mixed numbers and positive and negative integers on a number line.

Mathematical Reasoning 2.3  

I can communicate my math thinking in different ways, using models, diagrams, tables, charts, graphs, symbols, numbers, and words.