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. Remember that the children are responsible for all homework and classwork when they are absent. Please check the blog to hand in any missing assignments. Also make sure they get any missing notes or vocabulary and spelling words.
3. Gym on Mondays. Wear gym shirt, gym pants, and sneakers.
4. The children are reading different 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, 3/5 will be at 2:30.
6. Lenten Folders were sent home with the children last week. Fr. Almonte has asked the children to donate whatever possible during the forty days of lent.
7. The children are only allowed to wear blue cardigan sweaters in class. They will not be allowed to leave on any hoodies or different colored sweaters. Part of the weekly conduct grade is wearing the proper uniform.
8. The following link is to the NYSED for ELA exams. It would be very beneficial to download some of the past tests and have your child practice. Even though our school does not administer the 3rd ELA exam, it is a very good practice for the Grade 4 exam.
http://www.nysedregents.org/Grade3/EnglishLanguageArts/home.html
TESTS:
- Weekly Vocabulary Test- Friday, 3/5 same words as last week (see Vocabulary NB for definitions).
- Spelling Test- Tues., 3/2. Words from The Stories Julian Tells
- Language Arts Test- Friday 3/5 (study pgs. 342-367 in the Voyages Book).
- Book Test- Thursday, 3/4
VOCABULARY: definitions can be found in the Vocabulary NB
- kidnap- (v) to seize or hold a person by force, sometimes to get a ransom.
- legend- (n) a story or group of stories handed down for generations and believed to have some type of historical basis
- mauve- (adj.) any of several shades of pale or light purple
- navy- 1. (n) a nation’s entire sea force; 2. (adj) a very dark, purplish blue color (navy blue).
- pale-(adj) a whitish or colorless complexion
2. Reading Vocabulary Words from The Stories Julian Tells:
beyond, collection, mustache, seriously, fastened, cartwheel
Check the Reading NB for these words and their definitions.
SPELLING: Possessives and Plurals (The Stories Julian Tells) brother’s, brothers, uncle’s, uncles, sister’s, sisters, sisters’, man’s, men’s, child’s, girls, girl’s, girls’, mine, yours
Challenge Words:
tease, friendship, polite, wiggle, nuisance
LANGUAGE ARTS: Third Quarter Work
The children will be working on Descriptive Paragraphs in Composition (Chapter 3 in Voyages Book starting on p. 82)
Grammar: Starting on pg. 338 in the Voyages Text
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)
Pronoun: is a word that takes the place of a noun.
Personal Pronoun- refers to a person who is speaking or to the person or thing that is spoken to or about.
eg. I, me, mine, we, us, ours, she, her, hers, they, them, theirs, he, him, his, you, it, its.
Subject Pronoun-is a pronoun that is used as the subject of the sentence.
List of Subject Pronouns: Singular- I, you, he, she, it; Plural- we, you, they
eg. I dance. He dances. We dance.
Object Pronoun- is a pronoun that is used after an action verb in a sentence.
List of Object Pronouns: Singular- me, you, him, her, it; Plural- us, you, them
eg. The stars interest me. Me is the object of the sentence. It comes after the action verb interest. Therefore, me is an object pronoun.
HOMEWORK: Check the Purple Assignment Book every night for exact pages.
MONDAY: Reading- Practice Book- pgs. 52, 53 Study for Spelling Test.
TUESDAY: Language Arts (Voyages)- pg. 357 Exercise 1 (1-8) in Language Arts NB
WEDNESDAY: Study for book test. Remember to bring notes and the book.
THURSDAY: Study for the Language Arts Test and Vocabulary Tests.
FRIDAY: Read for at least 30 minutes over the weekend. You can read any book or magazine.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
Click the links below to review this week's Reading and ELA lesson plans:
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