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