This week in Language Arts

Week of October 14

Reading

Focus Skill: Sequencing

We will continue reading the story Bat Loves the Night from our Storytown reading book.  Vocabulary words are:  blanketed, surroundings, nocturnal, effort, dozes, swoops, detail, fluttering, plummet, inverted.  There will be a reading comprehension and vocabulary test Wednesday.  We will also read several poems and nonfiction selections about bats.

 

Reading Logs:

     In your child’s folder you will find a pink reading log.  Please have your child fill it out and you need to initial it nightly after they have read 20 minutes.  Your child should be at 80% of his/her reading goal in AR.

 

Writing

    We're using our Writer’s Notebook to create personal narratives.  We will be learning how to edit as we write, and rehearsing storytelling and leads.

 

Language Skill

     We will be learning about conjunctions and nouns.

 

Spelling

Unit 1 Lesson 5: Silent Consonants g,k,w,b; diagraph ph (f)

       This week's words are: gnat, gnarl, gnome, sign, knee, knock, knit, knife, knot, write, wrinkle, wrist, wrong, thumb, lamb, plumber, phrase, phone, gopher, graph.  The test will be on Thursday.