Week of May 24th

LIFESKILL OF THE WEEK:

The lifeskill that we are working on this week is Courage.

This week we will be reading the last story in our reading book, "Chocolate Is Missing”. The skill we will be focusing on is Author’s Purpose. An Author’s Purpose is the reason for writing something. Some purposes for writing are to entertain, to inform, to express, and to persuade. Predicting an author’s purpose can help you decide whether to read something slowly and carefully or just for fun.

In “Chocolate Is Missing,” the author’s purpose is to entertain. She just wants readers to enjoy reading this funny mystery story. To fulfill per purpose, the author has filled her story with interesting characters and exciting clues.

The spelling words this week are words that are related. They are able, ability, sign, signal, mean, meant, deal, dealt, soft, soften, relate, relative, heal, health, meter, metric, compose, composition, crumb, crumble. Homework for Tuesday night is to write each word in a meaningful sentence. The spelling word should be underlined. Please read your child's homework sentences and ask them to make any corrections that are necessary.

The vocabulary for this week is: angle, approach, brag, chocolate, poster, and presence. The challenge vocabulary words are: apprentices, circuits, generated, and print shop.

BOOK REPORT
The May book report is a BIOGRAPHY. The students all have a book and should be reading it each night. The Biography book report will be the basis for their speech. The following questions will guide them in their speech:
1. Why do you think a book was written about this person?
2. List three facts that made this person famous.
3. What do you think was this person’s most important accomplishment?
4. Make a time line of the important events in the life of the main character.
5. How did you feel about this person before reading the story?
6. How that you’ve read the book, how do you feel about the main character?
7. Write a paragraph explaining how you think the course of history and the lives of the people in this book would have been different if the main character had not existed. What things would not have happened? What might have happened instead?
8. Make a puppet dressed as you chosen famous person. Have your puppet introduce himself/herself to the class and describe himself.
The book report is due May 28.

A.A.I. means “ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN.” Each Monday I will send home a sheet that will tell you if your child is missing any work in each subject area. Please review it with them Monday night, sign it, and have them return it to class on Tuesday. Anything that is listed on that sheet needs to be completed at home or at recess. These students are on AAI this week:

These students are on AAI this week:
Pedur, Anthony, Solomon, Audrey, Jordyn, Joseph, Kahly, Casandra, Shania, and Parker