WEEK OF JANUARY 18, 2011

LIFESKILL OF THE WEEK:


The lifeskill that we are working on this week is Common Sense. It means “to use good judgment".

SPELLING
This week we will be focusing on the words from the fifteenth reading story (Unit3-Story5), “Rikki-tikki-tavi.” We will be learning about vowels in the final syllables. The spelling words we are studying are:
other, another, motor, angle, barrel, sudden, gallon, number, color, people, title, angel, oven, button, October, doctor, simple, model, broken, common. The students pretest on Monday. Their list will be in their Home Folder on Tuesday. 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. 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 cobra, coiled lame, plunged, and triumph. The extra credit vocabulary words are:
mongoose, scornfully, thunderclap, and valiant.

READING
The skill we will be focusing on is:
Drawing Conclusions. A conclusion is a decision you reach that makes sense after you think about details or facts in what you read. When you read, you draw conclusions by looking at the details and making decisions about the characters and what happens in the story.

Book Reports
I have handed out the book report form for January. This month’s report is on a nature book. There is a list of possible books in the classroom, but your child can check with the librarian as well and find many books in our library that would be appropriate for this report. Please review this month’s book report form with your child and discuss with them which book they would like to read. As part of the book report this month you child will need to create a crossword puzzle with words from their book. Students may use the Crossword Puzzle website found on our classroom BLOG to accomplish that. They will need between 10 and 15 words from their book as well as definitions.

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:
Eddie, Tyler, Jazmin, Anthony, Jorgie, Juan, Trinity,Teeona, Sydney W.