REMINDERS:
1. Please remember to cover all soft-covered books. Some children have still not covered any of their books.
2. Remember to read the purple assignment book and check the HW folder each night to know your child's homework for each day. Also, look through your child’s Reading and Language Arts NBs to see how they are doing on their classwork and homework.
3. Gym on Mondays. Wear gym shirt, gym pants, and sneakers.
4. The children switched books. The boys are now reading “Alice in Wonderland and the girls are reading the Story of Jumping Mouse. Please make sure they read a little every day. They should also be taking notes. The notes were started in back of the Reading NB and the children should add to them. Test on Friday, 1/29
5. Dismissal on Friday, 1/22 will be at 2:30.
6. Please check the blog for the Review Outline for the Reading Midterm Exam. You can find the material that your child should review for the exam. The Reading Exam will be Thurs. 1/21.
7. For Language Arts the children will have to write a How-to project which will be presented to the class. This will be due Monday, Feb. 1. Ideas can be found in Chapter 2 of the Voyages book. More details concerning how to write the project will be given next week. Check the Language Arts notebook next week for instructions.
TESTS:
Midterm Exams this week
Weds. - 1/20 Science
Thurs. - 1/22 Reading
Spelling Test- Friday, 1/29
Book Test (The Story of Jumping Mouse and Alice in Wonderland) Fri. 1/29
1. VOCABULARY: no new words this week
2. Reading Vocabulary Words from Officer Buckle – Wild Shots. See Reading NB.
Check the Reading NB for these words and their definitions.
SPELLING: Words with the /oi/ sound
joyful, choice, voice, joint, moist, spoil, royal, annoy, noise, employ, soil, loyal, boiled, destroy, pointy
Challenge Words:
earthquake, volcano, hurricane, weather, rumble
LANGUAGE ARTS: Second Semester Work
Noun: is a word that names a person (girl), place (school), or a thing (ball).
Common noun: names any person, place, or thing.
Proper noun: names a particular person, place, or thing. Each proper noun begins with a capital letter.
eg. teacher is a common noun; Ms. Larios is a proper noun.
Singular noun: names one person, place, or thing.
Plural noun: names more than one person, place, or thing.
Add –s or –es to make most nouns plural. For nouns that end in a consonant and y, change y to i and add –es. Add –es to nouns that end in s, ss, x, ch, or sh.
eg. boy-boys, girl-girls, box-boxes, glass-glasses, lunch-lunches, dish-dishes, bus-buses, party-parties, candy-candies, holiday-holidays
Irregular Plural Nouns: The plurals of some nouns look a little different from their singular forms. These are called irregular plurals because they are not formed by adding an –s or –es. They should be memorized.
ox-oxen, child-children, tooth-teeth, foot-feet, mouse-mice, woman-women, goose-geese, sheep-sheep, deer-deer, fish-fish, Chinese- Chinese
Singular Possessive Nouns- the possessive form of a noun shows possession, or ownership. To form a singular possessive, which means something is owned by one person or thing, add an apostrophe and the letter (s) to a singular noun. (friend- friend’s)
eg. I walked to my neighbor’s house.
Do you like Isabella’s coat?
Neighbor’s house means the house belongs to a neighbor. Isabella’s coat means that the coat belongs to Isabella.
HOMEWORK: Check the Purple Assignment Book every night for exact pages.
MONDAY: no school
TUESDAY: Study for Science exam
WEDNESDAY: Study for Reading exam
THURSDAY: Language Arts- Voyages pg. 349 Exercise 1 on looseleaf (1-8). Rewrite each of the sentences to show possession.
FRIDAY: Read for at least 30 minutes over the weekend. You can read any book or the book that was given to you. Start thinking of ideas for your How-to project. See number 7 in the reminders above.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
Click the links below to review this week's Reading and ELA lesson plans:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgcvdkk2_102hn8xt5w7
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgcvdkk2_0gh5mm9g3