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Language Arts

• Handwriting practice

• Rereading to understand

Reading

• Doughnuts presentations
• Doughnuts test

• Homework: Read "Building Bridges" and answer the questions on a separate paper. Answer must be complete sentences. Due Monday.
• The story can be read here: http://highlightskidsplus.com/Stories/Fiction/F1297_bridges.asp
• The question are:
• 1. Who is telling the story?
  2. Describe James. What is he like?
  
  3. The author says that James “faded into the walls during class.” What does that mean?
  
  4. At one point in the story Eddie was “laughing like a hyena.” What does that mean?
  
  5. How does the author feel about being partnered with James? How would you feel?
  
  6. What is the assignment the children have to complete in the story?
  
  7. Why do you think James is so quiet at school?
  
  8. Who is the man who enters the classroom at the end of the story?
  
  9. Why do the boys stop Mrs. Kramer from adding weights to the bridge?
  
  10. How will the author be different after completing this assignment with James?
  
  

Math

• Practice reading and writing numbers and numbers lines with Study Island