SPELLING/READING
This week we will be focusing on the words from the eleventh reading story (U3S1), “John Henry.” We will be learning about inflected forms with -er and -est.. The words we are studying are:
smaller, smallest, larger, largest, happier, happiest, hotter, hottest, sadder, saddest, deeper, deepest, closer, closest, scarier, scarier, funnier, funniest, fatter, and fattest. The students pretest on Monday. They will bring the list home in their Home Folder. Spelling homework is always Tuesday night (due Wednesday morning). I would like them to keep their spelling list in their Home Folder so it can be used at home and at school. This week the homework is to write each word in a sentence and to write each word three times. They should number the sentences and underline the spelling word. Please remind your child to review the words each night to be ready for the spelling test on Friday.
The vocabulary works that we are learning this week are boulder, glimpse, hollered, horizon, rhythm, shivered, and tunnel. . The extra credit vocabulary words are:
dynamite, parapets, and sledgehammer.
The skill we will be focusing on is Making Judgments. Making Judgments means thinking about and deciding how to react toward people, situations, and ideas in stories and articles that you read. Students use what they know and their experiences as they make judgments. They will ask themselves if the author is trying to influence them and how the author supports ideas he or she presents in the text.
