The Week of December 13th

SPELLING/READING

This week we will be focusing on the words from the twelfth reading story (U3S2), “Marven of the Great North Woods.” We will be learning about adding -s and -es.. The spelling words we are studying are:

monkeys, flowers, supplies, memories, ashes, circuses, taxes, holidays, friends, enemies, mysteries, beaches, glasses, suffixes, delays, tigers, hobbies, eyelashes, bunches and classes. 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 the Spelling sheet 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 then write them three times each. The students should number the sentences and underline the spelling word. Starting this week, the spelling test will not be just the twenty spelling words, but will be dictation of sentences. I will be looking for capital letters, punctuation as well as correct spelling of words. 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 cord, depot, flapjacks, grizzly, and snowshoes. The extra credit vocabulary words are:
bookkeeper, chit, logging, and lumberjacks.

The skill we will be focusing on is Drawing Conclusions. Authors don't always tell us everything. Instead, they may give us a few details about what happens or about characters. We can use the details and what we know to draw conclusions, or figure out things about people or animals and what they do. A conclusion is a decision you reach that makes sense after you think about the details or facts that you have read.

BOOK REPORT
The genre of the December book handed them out on Monday (12/1) after we discuss the types of questions in class. The December book report will be due on January 3, 2011.

READING RESPONSES
Please remind your student that their reading response needs to have their name, the book name, the author, the starting and ending pages for that night’s reading, and either a character description or a summary (paragraph) about what they read that night. It needs to be turned in each morning. Please talk with your child about the best time to complete this assignment and review their work before signing their agenda. If you have any questions, please give me a call or write a note in the agenda.

AAI means “ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN.” If students are focused in class they have time to finish all of their assignments except for Spelling homework. 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 weeks. The students need to complete the work and turn it in to me as soon as possible. If students have work listed on their Missing Assignment sheet, I will ask them to stay in at recess to finish that work, but mostly they should work on it at home. The Life Skill of responsibility is very important to learn at a young age. The following students were responsible about all of their work in class this term. They are on AAI:

AAI:
Sydney, Robert,Tristen, Dawna\, Tyler, Jazmin, Anthony, Juan, Andrea, Grace, Trinity, Sydney W.,Layla