Subjects and Predicates

For grammar this week, we are studying subjects and predicates.  We can identify the subject of a sentence by asking "What or whom is this sentence about?"  We can identify the predicate by asking  "What is the subject doing?"  The complete subject tells all the description about the subject.  The complete predicate tells everything about what the subject is doing.  For example:

The silly student with the long ponytails / bounced into class with a squeal.

The complete subject would be "The silly student with the long ponytails" and the complete predicate would be "bounced into class with a squeal."  The simple subject would condense (make smaller) the complete subject to just one word, "student."  The simple predicate would condense to only the verb (the action word), "bounced."

Try opening up your PRB or your reading book and identifying the subject and predicate of any sentence.  Some are more difficult than others.

Homework:
See yesterday for the weekly homework. 

Reading - Read the rest of "Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family"
Our focus this week is to question as we read.  This helps us to determine what is really going on in the story (and if our mind is focused or are we thinking about that last round of Angry Birds?).

Math:
5G -Accelerated Math has a two sided worksheet to practice previous skills on reading and using graphing vocabulary.

Today we deepened our study of choosing the best measure of center (the mean, median, and mode) and the best measure of variability (range, interquartile range, lower quartile (the median), upper quartile (the median), and the median.  We also worked on looking at misleading statistics, when just looking at one of these pieces of variability can lead us to the wrong idea.

5R has a worksheet and 5K has no homework.