Thursday, September 29, 2011

Grammar

we had our grammar test on wednesday.

Idioms


This week in grammar we learned about idioms. An idiom is an expression that has a meaning different from the usual meanings of the individual words within.
Example- They were along way from town and Ellen was beside herself.

Idioms

Idioms are words that mean almost the things but there not likeJill was in hot water that meansJill was in trouble.

scientific notation


In math we have been learning scientific notation.

Idioms


An idiom is a expression that has a meaning thats different from the usual meanings of the individual words within it.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Idioms



An idiom is an expression that is said different from it's real meaning

Idioms

This week in grammar we learned about idioms. An idiom is a exspression that cannot be taken literally. Ex he was a chip off the old block

homographs


homographs are words that are spelled the same but have diffrent meanings.

spelling


I learned how to spell guidance

Idioms

A few day's ago we learned about idioms are like your in deep water now that's an idiom your not really in deep water you are in trouble.

Idioms

Idoims

Yesterday in grammer we learned about idioms. Idioms are expressions that has a different meaning than the usual meanings of the individual words within it.
Example: Jack and Ellen knew they were in hot water when their car died.
That means that Jack and Ellen will be in trouble when their car died.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Bus Safety

Today we learned about bus safety. We practiced evacuating the bus, learned all the rules and the proper way to ride the bus.

Idioms
In grammar yesterday we learned about idioms. A idiom is an expression that has a meaning different from the usual meanings of the individual words within it.

Contractions

A contraction is a word formed by joining two other words. An apostrophe shows where a letter or letters have been omitted. An example is don't.

Idioms


An Idiom is a form of expression natural to a person, group or language.

Example: "Break a Leg" is a way of saying good luck without actually saying it.

Idioms


An idiom is a form of expression natural to a language, groups of people or a person
An example is the grass is greener on the other side means it will get better.

Scientific Notation

Scientific Notation goes like this you have to have a number
less than 10 and more than 1 and multiply it by a power of 10.
Ex. 920,000 = in scientific notation 9.2 x 10 to the power of 5.

Monday, September 26, 2011

MaTh


today in math we learned about scientific form: The number 123,000,000,000 in scientific notation is written as : 1.23 x 1011

Scientific Notation


Today in math class we learned about scientific notation once you figure it out it is really easy. Heres an example 89 = 8.9 x 101.


Friday, September 23, 2011

Grammar

I learned compound word are words that you put together to make a new word like blackberry.

Grammar

This week in grammar we learned about compound words. Compound words are two words put together. Like blackberry

Grammer


in grammar i learned about compound words like baseball base ball and racehorse u put two words together like underline that is two words put together

compoundwords


I learns about compound words they are made up of two compound words like water melon

Thursday, September 22, 2011



This week we learned about compound words. Compund wors are two words put together to make one word.
The other day in grammar we learned about compound words compound words are words that are made up of two or more words like underway.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Grammar


Today in Grammar we learned about compound words. Compound words are two word put together to make another meaning, like water and melon. When they are put together they make watermelon.

Contractions


The other day in Grammar we learned about contractions. A contraction is a word formed by joining two or more words. An example it is you could change it to it's.

Compound Words


A Compound Word is a word that is made up of two or more other words. The meaning of compound words is related to the meaning of the individual words it is made from.

Example: Quick+ Sand = Quicksand it means sand that moves quickly.

Spelling

In spelling on Monday we had a Pre Test and there were words that I couldn't spell because their was ei and ie but i didn't know what way it was supposed to go. Then i remembered a rhyme. "I BEFORE E EXCEPT AFTER C." Some of the spelling words work with that some don't like seize.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

rounding

Today we learned about
rounding and when
you are rounding you
have to look at the number to
the right of it and if it is
larger than five you
round up but if it is less
than five you round down
By Carson

ELA


Today in ELa we read chapters 3 and 4. in chapter 3 Brian crashes the plane in to a lake in northern Ontario. In chapter 4 Brian is crawling onto shore and he is having lots of problems with bugs.

Rounding

We rounded in math today. To round, you look at the number to the right of the place you are rounding to. If the number to the right is 5 or higher, you would round up. If the number is lower than 5, than you round down.

Prefixes go at the front of a word because it is a pre-fix. Prefixes are added to the front of a word to change the meaning of the word.
Example:
read-reread



Matthew

In English language Arts we are reading a book called HATCHET it is written by Gary Paulsen Hatchet is about a boy who survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness on his way to see his dad who works for an oil industry and on his way their his pilot had a heart attack and Brian flew the plane into a pond and escaped and so far that's all we know.

I learned that a prefix something that u put on the front of the word to change the meaning.








A suffix is something u put on the end of the word to change the meaning.

Monday, September 19, 2011

grammer

Today in grammar we learned about prefix,s and suffix,s. A prefix is letters added on to a root word like please displease and a suffix is a word that has letters added on to the end of a word like please pleased that,s prefix,s and suffix,s

Hear is an example