THE WEEK OF APRIL 11, 2011

LIFESKILL OF THE WEEK:

The lifeskill that we are working on this week is Curiosity

SPELLING/READING
This week we will be reading the 24th story in our reading book, "Into the Sea" (U5S4). 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 quickly for fun.

The spelling words this week are words that have vowels with no sound clues. They are: machine, especially, usually, probably, giant, buffalo, Canada, canoe, relatives, stomach, moment, cement, yesterday, animals, iron, favorite, welcome, support, suppose, and August. Spelling homework is to use the words in sentences. The students should underline each spelling word. The Tuesday night homework is due on Wednesday. The vocabulary for this week is: awkward, coral, current, flippers, muscles, protection, ridges, and underside. The challenge vocabulary words are: ecosystems, hatchling, mussel, and plankton.

Reading every night is very important to your child's success in school. Please have them read a minimum of twenty minutes each night and write a summary of what they read. Please sign your initials on their reading calendar. It is a great way for them to visualize their successes and to be a part of our reading celebration here at Weddle. I mark them off each morning and they will earn points toward going to the Wolves reading party.

BOOK REPORT
The April book report genre is Science Fiction. Science fiction stories usually transfer the
characteristics of a present-day society to another time, often the future. The author must be creative in writing an imaginative story about his new and unknown place and time. The April book report is due Friday, April 30th.

Reading every night is very important to your child's success in school and in life. Please have them read a minimum of twenty minutes at least four nights out of seven. Please sign their reading log each night after they read and done their reading response. I mark them off each morning and they will earn points toward going to the Wolves reading party.

AAI means “ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN.” If students are focused in class they have time to finish all of their assignments except for Spelling and Math 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. The following students were responsible about all of their work in class this term, and are on AAI:

Sydney A.
Tyler
Jazmin
Anthony
Jorgie
Juan
Andrea
Grace
Trinity
Teeona
Steve
Sydney W.
Rebecca
Caanan
Brayden

Nice job, kids!!