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