This week in Language Arts

Week of January 27

Reading

Focus Skill: Fact and Opinion
We will be reading “The Babe and I”. We will have a comprehension and vocabulary test on Friday.The vocabularywords for this week are skim, span, shabby, embarrass, midst, elevated, dazed, collapses, contribution, initiative.

AR Logs and Reading Logs:

Please have your child fill out the reading log each night after they have read 20 minutes. Parents need to sign and date the reading log each day.

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Writing

The children will create a character sketch based on a picture set during the time of the Great Depression or Dust Bowl.

Language Skill

Review nouns, pronouns, plural nouns, subjects and predicates, and conjunctions.

Spelling

Unit 3 Lesson 3: (aw) and (au) sound spellings

This week's words are: straw, crawling, lawn, sawing, hawk, Auburn, because, author, caught, naughty, sauce, laundry, falling, salty, calling, tall, install, talking, walk, thought

When studying these words, please talk about the meanings of each word.

If you did not send money to buy a copy of Charlotte's Web and want one, I ordered some extra copies. Just send send $1 in an envelope with you child's name on it and I will reserve a copy for your child.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Read 20 minutes Read The Babe and I	Read 20 minutes	Read 20 minutes	Read 20 minutes Read The Babe and I Spelling Test	Read 20 minutes Reading and vocabulary test for The Babe and I

Week of January 27th

 

Math: This week we will continue the investigation, "Muffles Truffles".  Students will be working with arrays and the properties of multiplication.  We will continue our discussion on multiples of ten.

Fluency:  The 12's pass off test will be given on Friday.

Science:  This week we will begin our study of force and motion.

Week of January 20th

 

Math:  We will continue our "Muffles Truffles" investigation.  This week we will look at how many different size boxes can be made out of the truffles.

Fluency:  This Friday, students will pass off on 6's in multiplication.  If students need to make up any pass offs, he or she can take them individually at the beginning of intervention each day.  Please continue to help encourage your child to study each night.

Science: We will finish up our review on "Simple Machines" this week.

Week of January 13th

 

 

Math:  This week we will begin a new "investigation" called Muffles Truffles.  It involves multiplication in a context (yummy truffles).  This will expand students' knowledge of arrays and multiples of ten.

 

Science: We will continue our study of simple machines.

This week in Language Arts

Week of January 13

Reading

Focus Skill: Locating Information

We will be reading several articles from Kid's Discover about the Great Depression.  The vocabulary words for this week are; Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Depression, auction, Hooverville, hobo, newsie, Dust Bowl.  The children will read an article a day about the Great Depression and answer and ask questions about what was read.

AR Logs and Reading Logs:

Please have your child fill out the reading log each night after they have read 20 minutes. Parents need to sign and date the reading log each day.   

Writing

We will be working on personal narratives.

Language Skill 

Review nouns, pronouns, plural nouns, subjects and predicates, and conjunctions.

Spelling

Unit 3 Lesson 1:  Digraph oo; prefixes and suffixes

This week's words are:  food, cartoon, books, reboot, troops, scooting, spool, stool, mistook, bathroom, shook, hoods, brook, driftwood, football, misunderstood, cooking, goodness, hoof, woolly

When studying these words, please talk about the meanings of each word. There is a PowerPoint on my website to help with the meanings.

 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Read 20 minutes	Read 20 minutes	Read 20 minutes	Read 20 minutes Spelling Test	Read 20 minutes

 

Week of January 6th

 

 

Math:  This week we will continue our multiplication unit.  We are going to continue our study of the 8's strategy (double double double).  I am pushing back the 3's test until the following week.  Please continue to encourage your child to play on Dreambox and practice multiplication facts each night.  Students will be receiving husky charms for each fact they pass off! 

 

Science:  This week we will begin a new unit on simple machines.

 



This week in Language Arts

Week of January 6

Reading

Focus Skill: Character Traits and Feelings

We will be reading Me and Uncle Romie.  The vocabulary words for this week are; memory, glorious, crept, ruined, heritage, masterpiece, dull, yanked, streak, towers.  The children will identify James' feelings toward Uncle Romie at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. They will use information from the story to cite evidence about his feelings.

AR Logs and Reading Logs:

Please have your child fill out the reading log each night after they have read 20 minutes. Parents need to sign and date the reading log each day.  
Christmas Reading Log due Monday, Jan. 6.

Writing

We will be working on personal narratives.

Language Skill

Review nouns, pronouns, plural nouns, subjects and predicates, and conjunctions.

Spelling

Unit 2 Lesson 5:  Digraph oo; regular and irregular plurals; homophones

This week's words are:  moon, noon, soon, balloon, mood, noodle, school, tooth, smooth, boost, swoop, proof, brake, break, where, wear, classes, pencils, sheep, geese

When studying these words, please talk about the meanings of each word. There is a PowerPoint on my website to help with the meanings.

 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Read 20 minutes   Christmas Reading Log due    Read Me and Uncle Romie	Read 20 minutes Complete vocabulary homework	Read 20 minutes Read "Fragments of the Past" and create a timeline including 5 important events.	Read 20 minutes Spelling Test   Complete vocabulary homework	Read 20 minutes Reading and vocabulary Test