The Week of December 6th

BOOK REPORT

The genre of the December book report is MYSTERY. I handed them out on December 1st after we discuss the types of questions in class. Please check with your child to be sure they have chosen a book and are working on the book report project. The December book report will be due on January 3, 2005.

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 the blue Spelling sheet in their purple folder so it can be used at home and at school. This week the homework is to write each word in a sentence. 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.

IXL MATH
I am so excited that our students have access to IXL Math from home as well as school. Many of the students have been advancing their skills by choosing to spend some of their home time practicing math concepts and learning more. Keep up the good work!! During this past week, the following students completed a total of 1,554 problems:

Andrea, Tristen, Tyler, Dawna, Eddie Jorgie, Juan, and Grace! Good work!!

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:
Robert, Tristen, Eddie, Dawna, Tyler, Jazmin, Anthony, Juan, Andrea, Grace, Trinity, Teeona, Sydney W.