Students are finishing up their informative writing pieces. They are revising their body paragraphs and will begin to type up their drafts.

 

Novel Study:

Group 1: Chapters 7-9

Group 2: Chapters 7-9

Group 3: Chapters 7-9

Group 4: Chapters 17-24

This week we are focusing on understanding character traits (using descriptive words/adjectives) and how to apply them to our writing and our reading. We will also work on putting the events of a story in order based on context clues, text evidence, our knowledge of elements of a story, and other literacy skills we have.

 

Students will work on challenge high-frequency words including: different, mountain, complete, tomorrow, system, and remember

 

Novel Study:

 

Group 1: Chapters 5-6 and vocabulary words

Group 2: Chapters 5-6

Group 3: Chapters 5-6

Group 4: Chapters 10-16

This week students will be focusing on identifying character traits to help them describe the main character of a book or story. Students will use this in their Novel Study work and in free writing on No Red Ink. Students will also get the opportunity to practice researching and using evidence from their research to strengthen their informative writing.

 

Chapters:

 

Group 1: 5-6

Group 2: 5-6

Group 3: 5-6

Group 4: 10-16

Here is the link for our Schloastic News:https://digital.scholastic.com/class-passcode?app=sn4&state=%2Fhome-page-logged-out.html&role=classroom

 

Our class password is: rosenblatt 

This week we are focusing heavily on text evidence in reading and writing! Students will learn how to use text evidence to understand what they are reading and how to use text evidence to support their claims.

 

Students will also be working in their Literacy Centers on making predictions, drawing conclusions, run-on sentences, and simple/compound/complex sentences. I highly recommend working at home on these topics because they are a point of struggle for the whole class.

 

Students will continue to work on their Novel Study books.

We will present their "Frindle" projects to the class! Students will read begin their Novel Study/Reading Group book. Please ask your student which group they are in so that you can follow along with their work for each week. We will also discuss our writing unit for this quarter: Informational/Expository Writing.

 

Group 1: The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling

Group 2: Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing by Judy Blume 

Group 3: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

Group 4: Holes by Louis Sachar

This week we will be working on our Frindle project and introducing a new writing website No Red Ink. Log-in cards will be sent home in Friday folders. 

 

Students will be assigned their new reading groups as well for the quarter. Feel free to take the book out from your local library if you want to follow along. We will be doing an assessment this week to determine new spelling groups. There is one spelling list for the whole class this week: bed, ship, when, lump, float, train, place, drive, bright, shopping, spoil, serving, chewed, carries, marched, shower, bottle, favor, ripen, cellar, pleasure, fortunate, confident, civilize, opposition.

We are sharing our persuasive essay's with our classmates this week. We will also start our Frindle project and learn about holidays around the world.

This week in language arts we are writing our conclusions, editing and publishing our persausive essays! Students will learn about peer editing and will present their work to each other.

 

Students will continue to practice their spelling words from last week. Also, students will be MAP testing on Thursday and Friday, so the test will be on Wednesday this week.