The Week of October 11th

SPELLING

This week we will be focusing on the words from the fifth Reading story, “Addie in Charge.” The words are:
throat, scratch, street, squeeze, thrill, strawberry, squirm, through, scream, strike, threat, scrub, strength, squirt, screen, strange, square, thrown, skyscraper, and squeal. The students pretest on Monday. They will take the list home in their Home Folder. Spelling homework is always Tuesday night (due Wednesday morning). I would like them to keep the Spelling sheet in their homework folder so it can be used at home and at school. This week the homework is to write each word in a sentence and then write each word three times. They should number the sentences and underline the spelling word.

READING
Our Target Skill this week is CHARACTERS. Characters are the people or animals in a story or non-fictional article. You can learn about the characters by what they think, do, and say. You can also learn about the characters by paying attention to how other characters in the story treat them and what these other characters say about them. The main characters in “Addie in Charge” are Addie and Burt. In a crisis, Addie stays calm and does the right thing. When then others return, they praise Addie for her courage and intelligence.

The vocabulary words that we will be learning this week are:
bellows, billows, crouched, smarted, and tufts. Knowing the meanings of these words is important to reading “Addie in Charge.”

We will also be learning about three types of sentences. The first kind is a simple sentences which is one complete thought. The second type is a compound sentences which is two simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction, such as and, but, or or. Addie hid in the well, and she took Burt with her. The third kind is complex sentences which contain a simple sentence and a group of words that cannot stand on its own, with a connecting work such as because or when. When the fire came close, Addie and Burt hid.

BOOK REPORTS
The students have their October book report form. It is for a fiction book about an animal. Please check with your child to see that they are reading an animal book, if not, they can check one out at the library on Thursday. It is very helpful if you can look at a calendar and plan when would be a good time to work on their book report so it doesn’t end up being a last minute activity. The report is due Friday, October 29th.

AAI 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 shows up missing on that sheet is work that was to be completed in the previous week (or before). The students need to complete the work and turn it in to me as soon as possible. When they complete the work and turn it in, I will sign them off on their missing assignment sheet so you know their work has been turned in. The Life Skill of responsibility is very important to learn at a young age. Several students were only missing one assignment. The following students were responsible about all of their work this term. They are on AAI:
Sydney, Dawna, Tyler, Jazmin, Jeffery, Anthony, Juan, Trinity, Teeona, Simone, Steve, Sydney
Nice job!