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 are reading new books. The boys are reading The Fantastic Mr. Fox and the girls are reading Charlotte’s Web. The notes will be started in school in the back of the Reading NB. They should finish the notes on their own jotting down details about the characters, settings, and plot of the story. The Book Test will be on Thursday, March 4th.
5. Dismissal on Friday, 2/12 will be at 12:00.
TESTS:
- Weekly Vocabulary Test- Friday, 2/12 (see Vocabulary NB for definitions).
- Spelling Test- Thurs, 2/11.
- Book Test- Thursday, 3/4
VOCABULARY: definitions can be found in the Vocabulary NB
1. alarm- (n) warning of danger (v) to cause alarm due to a sense of danger
2. bough- (n) a usually large or main branch of a tree
3. century-(n) a period of a hundred years
4. decade-(n) a period of a ten years
5. evacuate- (v) to make empty; to remove troops or people from a place of danger.
2. Reading Vocabulary Words from Rosie, a Visiting Dog:
firm, confident, comfortable, approach, equipment, program, appointment
Check the Reading NB for these words and their definitions.
SPELLING: Words with the /ou/ sound (Rosie, a Visiting Dog)
crown, proud, however, count, crowded, around, south, loud, house, shouted, howl, growl, bounce, fountain, sound
Challenge Words:
special, trust, companion, trained, behave
LANGUAGE ARTS: Second Semester Work
The children will be working on Descriptive Paragraphs in Composition (Chapter 3 in Voyages Book starting on p. 82
Grammar:
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.
Plural Possessive Nouns- A plural possessive shows that more than one person or thing owns something. To form the plural possessive of regular nouns, add an apostrophe (‘) after the –s of the plural form. Remember to form the plural of a regular noun before adding the apostrophe.
eg. boy (singular), boys (plural), boy’s (singular possessive), boys’ (plural possessive)
baby (singular), babies (plural), baby’s (singular possessive), babies’ (plural possessive).
man (singular), men (plural), man’s (singular possessive), men’s (plural possessive)
ox (singular), oxen (plural), ox’s (singular possessive), oxen’s (plural possessive)
HOMEWORK: Check the Purple Assignment Book every night for exact pages.
MONDAY: Spelling: write a each spelling word 5x each in the Reading NB
TUESDAY:Spelling: Write a sentence for spelling words 1-10 on looseleaf. Remember your heading.
WEDNESDAY: Spelling: write a sentence for spelling words 11-20 in the Reading NB. Study for the Spelling Test tomorrow.
THURSDAY: Language Arts: write a paragraph titled Valentine’s Day. Be creative. Remember your heading. Study for the vocabulary test.
FRIDAY: Read for at least 30 minutes over the weekend. You can read any book or the book that was given to you.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
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