This week in Language Arts

Week of February 10

Reading

Focus Skill: Nonfiction Features
We will be identifying the features found in nonfiction text.  The students will choose a topic and a nonfiction book that will be used for research and to identify nonfiction features.  The vocabularywords for this week are: Headings (Titles/Subtitles/Topic Names), Maps, Photographs, Captions, Types of Print, Graphs, Cut-away, Comparisons, Labels, Diagrams, Table of Contents, Index, Glossary, Close-ups.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.  Friday, February 14, is the last day to take AR tests for this trimester.

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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

We will focus on the pronouns I and Me this week

Spelling

Unit 3 Lesson 4: (oi) and (oy) sound spellings

This week's words are:  coin, appoint, rejoice, choice, avoid, boiling, noise, voice, spoil, moist, joyful, cowboy, annoying, employ, voyage, loyal, royal, boys, soybean, oyster

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

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Read 20 minutes Canned Food Drive  for TEAM all week Bring in something for TEAM	Read 20 minutes	Read 20 minutes	Read 20 minutes Spelling Test   Bring valentines tomorrow.	Read 20 minutes Valentine's Day