The Week of May 17th

LIFESKILL OF THE WEEK:

The lifeskill that we are working on this week is Courage.

READING/SPELLING
This week we will be reading the 29th story in our reading book, "Out of the Blue." The skill we will be focusing on is Main Idea and Supporting Details.

The topic is what a paragraph or article is about. The main idea is the most important idea about the topic the main idea is often stated in a single sentence within a paragraph or article. However, sometimes you have to figure out he main idea and put it in your own words. Supporting details are small pieces of information that tell more about the main idea.

The spelling words this week are words with the suffixes -less, -ment, and -ness. The words this week are:
helpless, spotless, useless, movement, punishment, brightness, fairness, careless, hopeless, payment, pavement, goodness, business, darkness, breathless, worthless, statement, treatment, softness, and greatness.

Homework for Tuesday night is to write each word in a meaningful sentence. The spelling word should be underlined. Please read your child's homework sentences and ask them to make any corrections that are necessary. The vocabulary for this week is: almanac, calendar, circulating, electricity, experiment, inventions, mysterious, and theory. The challenge vocabulary words are: apprentices, circuits, generated, and print shop.

Reading every night is very important to your child's success in school. Please have them read a minimum of twenty minutes each night. Each student has a calendar for May so you can record your signature. 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 May book report is a BIOGRAPHY. The students all have a book and should be reading it each night. The Biography book report will be the basis for their speech. The following questions will guide them in their speech:

1. Why do you think a book was written about this person?

2. List three facts that made this person famous.

3. What do you think was this person’s most important accomplishment?

4. Make a time line of the important events in the life of the main character.

5. How did you feel about this person before reading the story?

6. How that you’ve read the book, how do you feel about the main character?

7. Write a paragraph explaining how you think the course of history and the lives of the people in this book would have been different if the main character had not existed. What things would not have happened? What might have happened instead?

8. Make a puppet dressed as you chosen famous person. Have your puppet introduce himself/herself to the class and describe himself.
The book report is due May 31.

A.A.I. means “ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN.” 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 is listed on that sheet needs to be completed at home or at recess. These students are on AAI this week:

These students are on AAI this week:
Pedur, Liliana, Anthony, Daniel, Solomon, Audrey, Jordyn, Kayla, Larry, Kahly, Casandra, Shania, Myjha, and Parker