The Week of February 16th...

LIFESKILL OF THE WEEK:
The lifeskill that we are working on this week is Responsibility-to be accountable for your own actions.

READING/SPELLING
This week we will be reading the 19th story in our reading book, "The Disguise" (U4S4). The skill we will be focusing on is Summary. A summary is a short statement, no more than a few sentences, that tells the main idea of a selection.  For a story, a summary tells the goals of the characters, how they try to reach them, and whether they reach them.  A summary of an article tells the main idea and leaves out unneccesary details.
The spelling words this week have suffixes -ful, -ly, and -ion. They are: powerful, peaceful, beautiful, cheerful, painful, thoughtful, slowly, safely, daily, suddenly, carefully, weekly, lately, truthfully, hopefully, action, location, invention, correction, and pollution.. 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: considering, definitely, diamond, grounders, reminder, stroke, and taunted. The challenge vocabulary is: apologizing, handmade, and storytelling.

BOOK REPORT
The book report for February is "Fantasy". Fantasy stories include folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and science fiction. We have discussed the book report and all the terms. I have asked each student to put the book report form in their Home Folder so they can review the types of questions and the assignment for the book report with you. Part of the book report is making a board game. They have written the criteria in their Agenda. The book report and board game is due Friday, February 29th.

STATE TESTS
The 1st round of the State Reading and Math test will be March 8th, 9th,10th,11th,15th, and 16th in our classroom. Please try to schedule doctors' appointments outside of those times so your child will be able to complete the tests in a timely fashion. There are several other ways you can help your child be successful with these important tests. Some of them are: adequate sleep, nourishing breakfast, and a positive “can do” attitude. You can be their “cheerleader”. J

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:

Pedur, Liliana, Anthony, Daniel, Solomon, Audrey, Jordyn, Kayla, Larry, Gavin, Joseph, Kahly, Casandra, Baylee, McKenzie, and Myjha

I'm proud of you all for reaching for the stars and being the best you can be.