March 29, 2010

Welcome Back!

I hope you had a wonderful Spring break with your families. We sure were blessed with a wonderful variety of Oregon weather.

Calendar:
March 31st WOLVES Party
March 31st-Book Report Due
April 2nd-Sport Day
April 30th-Attendance Award

LIFESKILL OF THE WEEK:
The lifeskill that we are working on this week is Friendship.

READING
This week we will be reading the 22nd story in our reading book, "A Peddler's Dream" (U5S2). The skill we will be focusing on is PLOT. A plot is a series of events that center on a problem, or conflict. A conflict can be a problem between two people or groups, or between a person and nature. Conflicts can also be problems that characters have within themselves. The climax is where the action of the story builds and the conflict must be faced. The resolution is where the problem is solved.

The spelling words this week are words with kn, gn, wr, or mb. They are: knot, unknown, know, knit, knob, kneel, sign, design, assign, writing, wrist, wreck, wreath, wrench, wren, climb, thumb, limb, comb, and lamb. Their 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: bound, fortune, mission, peddling, purchased, quarters, and trudged. The challenge vocabulary words are: betrothed, calico, dowry, merchandise, and wares.

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 Wednesday, April 30th.



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:

Juan, Pedur, Jacoby, Liliana, Anthony, Solomon, Daniel, Audrey, Serena, Jordyn, Kayla, Larry, Gavin, Joseph, Kahly, Casandra, Shania, Baylee, McKenzie, Myjha, Parker, and Brogen.  Nice job, kids!!