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 received a new book (The Widow’s Broom) to read last week. 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 Thursday, May 13, 2010.
5. 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.
6. Dismissal on Friday will be at 12:00
TESTS:
Vocabulary Test- Friday, 5/7(study the words for this week located in the Vocabulary NB).
Spelling Test- Thursday, 5/6 on the words below
Book Test on The Widow’s Broom- Thursday, 5/13
Language Arts Test- Thursday, 5/13 . Study the work below for 2nd Semester Language Arts Work or Study the Voyages text pgs. 338- 375
VOCABULARY: Test Friday, 5/3 These words can be found in the Vocabulary NB.
1. deceive- (v) to be dishonest and misleading
2. epidemic- (n) something that spreads or develops rapidly like an epidemic disease.
3. fascinate- (v) to seize or hold the attention of; to attract greatly
4. greedy-(adj) trying to take more than one needs or more than one’s share
5. hospitable-(adj) friendly and generous in entertaining guests
2. Reading Vocabulary Words from Ramona Forever:
glanced, comfort, longed, contagious, prescription, attention, unexpected
Check the Reading NB for these words and their definitions.
SPELLING: Ramona Forever: words with the /ar/ sound
started, card, park, smart, star, shark, mark, barber, party, pardon, bark, tart, carpet, farther, barn
Challenge Words: announce, alarm, complain, excitement, speaker
LANGUAGE ARTS: 2nd Semester Work
The children will be working on Personal Letters (Chapter 4 in Voyages Book starting on p. 120)
Grammar: Starting on pg. 338 in the Voyages Text
Noun: is a word that names a person (girl), place (school), or a thing (ball). (Nouns- Voyages Text, pgs. 338-360)
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.
Using I and Me- I and me are used when you are talking about yourself. I is used as the subject of the sentence (I love school) and me is used as the object as follows the action word (Mom bought me a new video game).
Possessive Pronouns- shows who or what owns something. A possessive pronoun takes the place of a noun. It takes the place of both the person who owns the thing and the object that is owned.
Mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, and theirs are the possessive pronouns.
eg. My bicycle is here. Mine is here
That is Lisa’s bicycle. That is hers.
Possessive Adjectives- an adjective is a word that describes a noun. Some adjectives show who owns something. My, our, your, his, her, its, and theirs are adjectives that come before nouns to show ownership. These are known as possessive adjectives.
HOMEWORK: Check the Purple Assignment Book every night for exact pages.
MONDAY: Spelling- write each spelling word 5x each in the Reading NB
TUESDAY: none
WEDNESDAY: Spelling- write a sentence for any 10 of the spelling words. Write on looseleaf with a heading. Study for the Spelling Test tomorrow.
THURSDAY: Study for the Vocabulary Test (words are in the Vocabulary NB).
FRIDAY: Read for at least 30 minutes a day. You can read any book or magazine. Study for the Language Arts Test and Book Test on Thursday, 5/13.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
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