REMINDERS:
1. Please remember to cover all soft-covered books. Some children have not covered any and there are no extra copies if they rip.
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, check your child’s notebooks to see what they are doing in class or if I have written you a note. HW assignments will not be accepted late. If your child is absent he/she will have one day after their return to hand in their HW. HW is posted on the blog or written in the Purple assignment book.
3. Your child needs to remember to bring all of their school supplies every day.
4. The children were given a new book, Stuart Little to read this week. The notes will be started in the back of the Reading NB. The children should complete the notes on their own.
5. The children must hand in their business letter by Friday. 2/5.
TESTS:
Spelling Test- Friday, 1/29
Vocabulary Test- Friday, 1/29
VOCABULARY: definitions can be found in the Vocabulary NB (Test Friday, 1/29)
- abandon- to give up, desert, or surrender
- donate- to give a gift to or contribute to a charitable cause (eg. donate to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti).
- refuge- shelter from danger; protection
- volunteer- someone who offers himself/herself to do a service of his /her own free will.
- rescue- to save or deliver from evil, danger, or confinement
2. Reading Vocabulary Words from MARVIN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS: definitions will be written in the Reading NB.
business, resourceful, team, trustworthy, cord, dismay, grizzly (bear), immense, payroll, lumberjack, silhouettes
SPELLING- Consonant pairs ng, nk, ph, wh (MARVIN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS)
Thanksgiving, among, think, blank, graph, young, wheel, nephew, belong, whiskers, whisper, elephant, white, shrink, wharf, trunk, strong, blink, chunk, skunk
Challenge Words:
strengthen, bankrupt, phantom, whimsical, whatever
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 (boy), place (school), or thing (ball).
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 noun- The plurals of some nouns are not formed by adding –s or –es to the singular noun. These are irregular plural nouns. These should be memorized because they do not follow any rules.
eg. ox- oxen, child-children, tooth-teeth, foot-feet, mouse-mice, woman-women, goose-geese, wolf-wolves, wife-wives, leaf-leaves, wife-wives.
Some nouns have the same singular and plural forms:
Singular Possessive Nouns- A possessive noun shows possession or ownership. A singular possessive noun shows that one person or thing owns something. To form the singular possessive, add an apostrophe and the letter s (-‘s) to a singular noun.
eg. Maria’s bookbag is heavy. (Maria’s bookbag means the bookbag belongs to Maria)
The car’s tire was flat. (Car’s tire means that the tire belongs to the car)
HOMEWORK: Check the Purple Assignment Book every night for exact pages.
MONDAY: Spelling- write each Spelling Word 5x each in the Reading NB
TUESDAY: Spelling- write a sentence for words 1-13 on looseleaf (to be handed in). Remember to put a heading on your looseleaf.
WEDNESDAY: Spelling-write a sentence for words 14-25 in the Reading NB
THURSDAY: 1. Language Arts- Voyages p.49 Activity D. Do on looseleaf. Rewrite the letter correctly.
2. The business letter that was supposed to be written in your LA NB must be written over correctly on looseleaf and handed in on Friday, 2/5. No extensions will be given!!! If you did not write one in the notebook, you must compose a new one.
3. Study for the Vocabulary Test tomorrow (words and definitions can be found in the Vocabulary NBs.
FRIDAY: Read for at least 30 minutes over the weekend. You can read any book or the book that was assigned to read.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
Click the links below to review this week's Reading and ELA lesson plans:
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