Saturday, April 24, 2010

The Week of April 26th

Calendar:

April 29th-WOLVES PARTY
April 30th-Attendance Award

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

SPELLING/READING
This week we will be reading the 26th story in our reading book, "Koya's Cousin Del." The skill we will be focusing on is Visualizing. Visualizing means forming a mental image as you read. To help visualize, look for details that tell how things look, smell, sound, taste, and feel add what you know from your own experience to create an even clearer image in your mind. If you cannot visualize, reread or read more slowly to find details.

The spelling words this week are words that we have to practice in order to get the correct letter order. We have to watch for letter combinations that are hard to keep in order, and pay special attention to those parts. The words this week are:
piece, believe, again, brought, neighbor, tongue, toes, friend, weird, asked, height, heard, rattle, hospital, field, said, only, weight, heart, and pickle.

For homework the students are to use each word in a sentence. They should underline each spelling word. The Tuesday night homework is due on Wednesday.

The vocabulary for this week is: applause, auditorium, autographs, imitation, impatient, microphones, and performers. The challenge vocabulary words are: deduced, deliberately, emphasized, and escorted.

Reading every night is very important to your child's success in school. Please have them read a minimum of twenty minutes each night. 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.

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.

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, Joseph, Casandra, Shania, McKenzie, Myjha, and Parker