This week in Language Arts

Week of October 28

Reading

Focus Skill: Questioning

We will continue reading the book Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. As we read the book together, we will discuss vocabulary that is confusing and new to the children.  There will be a reading comprehension and vocabulary test at the end of the unit.   We will also read nonfiction selections about Wyoming, potato farming, and Samoyed.  Here are some vocabulary words we chose this week: palomino, hitched, rodeo, proceeded, irrigation, inspect, harvest, mature, concerned, strong box, mare, bushel, acre, determined, hind, plow.  The test on this book next week.

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 100% of his/her reading goal in AR by the end of this week.

 

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 singular and plural nouns.

Spelling

Unit 2 Lesson 1: Tri-graph- igh, Long vowel (i) , y changing rule for adding suffixes.  Change the y to i before adding suffixes, unless the suffix begins with an i.

This week's words are: sky, dry, sly, why, myself, spied, spying, crying, cried, multiplying, reply, replies, apply, applied, carrier, easier, high, right, fright, nightlight. The test will be on Thursday.

When studying these words, please talk about the meanings of each word and the spelling rule used to  long vowel sounds when adding a suffix.  There is a PowerPoint on my website to help with the rules.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Read 20 minutes   Scholastic book orders due this week.	Read 20 minutes	Read 20 minutes   Study for spelling test	Read 20 minutes   Spelling Test	Read 20 minutes   Scholastic book orders due