REMINDERS:
1. Remember to read the purple assignment book and check the HW folder each night to know your child's homework for each day.
2. Your child needs to remember to bring all of their school supplies every day. Many children are coming to class with no pencils or looseleaf.
3. Remember that Homework counts as a grade and many children are not completing it. Check your child’s Reading and Language Arts NB every day to see if I have written you a note. If your child is absent from school, he/she is still responsible to complete the HW and get any notes that may have been given. See blog for HW and tests for the week.
4. A new book was given out on Friday. Make sure your child reads every day. Notes will be started in the back of the Reading NB. The children should complete the notes by writing the settings, characters, and a summary of important details. The Book Test will be Thurs. 6/3.
TESTS:
Vocabulary Test- Weds., June 2 on all the words from the 4th Quarter (six weeks). See Vocabulary NB from the weeks 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17. There are 90 words to study for the Cumulative Vocabulary Test on 6/2.
Book Test- Thursday, 6/3
Spelling Test- Thursday, 6/3
VOCABULARY WORDS: review 4th quarter words. See Vocabulary NBs.
READING VOCABULARY WORDS Pumpkin Fiesta:
boasted, crept, crown, village, vines
High Frequency Words: the students only need to know how to read these words (they do not need to know how to define them): drink, hat, hid, hill, road
SPELLING WORDS: from Pumpkin Fiesta: Inflections- -s, -es, -ies
beauties, babies, cities, duties, bodies, skies, copies, cries, pennies, hobbies, sign, unknown, drink, hill, road
LANGUAGE ARTS- 2nd Semester Work
This week we will be working on writing descriptive paragraphs, pronouns, and describing words.
Nouns- names a person, place, thing, or animal (pgs. 94-123) Language Handbook).
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 noun- some nouns change their spelling to name more than one.
eg. woman-women, foot-feet, goose-geese, child-children, tooth-teeth, mouse-mice, man-men, leaf-leaves
Proper Nouns- Names of people, animals, places, days of the week, months of the year, holidays, names of streets, towns, cities, states, countries, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Proper nouns begin with capital letters.
eg. Mr. Woods, Dr. Sanchez, Rex, Orlando, Florida, America, Tuesday, January, Christmas, Arden Street, New York, Bronx, Hudson River, Lake George, Atlantic Ocean.
Abbreviation- is a short way to write a word. Most abbreviations end with period and begin with a capital letter.
eg. March- Mar.; February- Feb.; Mister- Mr.
Possessive Noun- is a noun that shows ownership. It tells what someone or something owns or has. When a possessive noun names one person or thing, add an apostrophe (‘) and s to show ownership.
Pronoun-(pgs. 124-126) takes the place of a noun. I, you, he, she, it, and they are pronouns.
Describing Words-(pgs. 127-138) tell about nouns. Describing words tell about color, size, shape, tastes, looks, smells, feels, sounds, and tells how many, describing words that compare
Verbs- (pgs.139-147)
An action verb tells what someone or something does.
A verb can tell about an action that is happening now.
Eg. The sun shines in the sky. (shines is the action verb that tells what is happening right now in the present.
Add the letter s to most verbs when the naming part of the sentence tells about one thing or one person.
eg. The baby walks. (The naming part of the sentence tells about one person (the baby), so the verb ends with and s.
Do not add an s to the verb when the naming part of the sentence tells about I, you, or more than one person or thing.
eg. I play tag. (play does not end with s, even though the naming part is about one person.
You sing well. (sing does not end with s, because of the word you)
The children write their letters. (write does not end with s, because the naming part of the sentence tells about more than one thing)
Past Tense Verbs: tell about action that happened in the past. The ending –ed is added to most verbs to tell about the past.
eg. Tommy opened the present. (opened is a verb that shows action that happened in the past)
HOMEWORK: See purple assignment book for page numbers
MONDAY: Reading Practice Book- pgs.106, 107, 108 Due on Weds.
TUESDAY: see Monday
WEDNESDAY: Language Handbook- pg. 144 (1-10) on looseleaf. In 1-5, write each sentence and circle the verb in each. In 6-10, write each sentence and write the correct verb from the ( ).
THURSDAY: Study for the Vocabulary Test next Tuesday and read your book.
FRIDAY: Read for at least 15 minutes every day or parents read to your children!!! Remember to study for the Vocabulary Test, Book Test, and Spelling Test.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
Click the links below to reviews this week's Reading and ELA Lesson Plans:
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