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Our reading groups have begun! In the early chapters of each book, both groups have focused on identifying figurative language in literature. Figurative language uses words or phases that carry a different a meaning from the literal definition of the words. The girls learned how figurative language can be used to compare two things, make text come alive, and add interesting details to written work. The girls have studied similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, and hyperbole.
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In math, the girls have be working with bar graphs. The girls have collected, analyzed, and graphed various samples of data. Next up is plotting points when given coordinate pairs, which will lead them into making and analyzing line graphs.
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History class has lead us to the conclusion of Chapter 3: Native American Cultural Regions. The girls' next task will be to create a three dimensional representation of an assigned cultural region (shhhh...they don't know this yet!) and the Native American unit's culminating event will be an open book test on Chapters 2 and 3.
