In our literacy circles this week, we are focused similes, alphabetizing, verb tenses, and Frindle Chapters 12-15. Thursday, we will have a make-up day and Scholastic News (since we have a field trip on Friday).Please practice at home with A-Z vocabulary or any other way you would like. 

 

Group 1: spice, pride, drive, white, wire, line, slime, stripe, hive, vile (challenge words: quite, whine)

Group 2: audible, eligible, terrible, acceptable, doable, dependable, breakable, visible (challenge words: admirable, possible)

Group 3: puppies, candies, countries, memories, ladies, babies, parties, policies (challenge words:

Group 4: assemble, example, resemble, encircle, bamboozle, rectangle, entitle (challenge words: meanwhile, reshuffle)

Group 5: prettier, tougher, fastest, happier, loudest, quieter, hungrier, calmest (challenge words: sillier, narrowest)

 

We are continuing to write our persuasive essays! Students will write their introduction and conclusion paragraphs. They will put all their work together to produce a first draft of their essay.

In our literacy circles this week, we are focused on writing complete sentences and adding details to our work. Students will work on sentence corrections and writing their own complete sentences filled with details! Thursday, we will have a make-up day and Friday we will do Schloastic News Friday. Spelling words are the same from last week. Please practice at home with A-Z vocabulary or any other way you would like. 

 

Group 1: case, cake, made, skate, lake, pave, dance, space, tale, grape (challenge: concave, manage)

Group 2: conjoin, compile, flexible, curable, sensible, durable, superstar, superhero, interview, contest (challenge: interrupt, audible)

Group 3: superhero, raincheck, without, breakfast, thunderstorm, skateboard (challenge: earthquake, somewhere)

Group 4: compensate, concentrate, illustrate, aggravate, illustrate, infantile, infiltrate (challenge: 

Group 5: bridge, gravity, hungry, eclipse, secret, applaud, laundry, trouble, attract, twilight (challenge: argue, furious)

 

We are continuing to write our persuasive essays! Students will continue to work with their graphic organizers to create strong agruments. They will also learn how to write a thesis statement and conclusion this week and next.

This week we started out literacy circles. Students are broken down into 5 groups. Monday-Wednesday students will have two rotations of work to do. On Thursday, students will have a make-up day and we will do full class work. Friday, we will continue with our Scholastic News Friday. Please ask your student what group they are in so you know what spelling words to work on at home. Each group is working on a different spelling rule, so the words will vary greatly.

 

Group 1: case, cake, made, skate, lake, pave, dance, space, tale, grape (challenge: concave, manage)

Group 2: conjoin, compile, flexible, curable, sensible, durable, superstar, superhero, interview, contest (challenge: interrupt, audible)

Group 3: superhero, raincheck, without, breakfast, thunderstorm, skateboard (challenge: earthquake, somewhere)

Group 4: compensate, concentrate, illustrate, aggravate, illustrate, infantile, infiltrate (challenge: 

Group 5: bridge, gravity, hungry, eclipse, secret, applaud, laundry, trouble, attract, twilight (challenge: argue, furious)

 

We are continuing to write our persuasive essays! Students will continue to work with their graphic organizers to create strong agruments. They will also learn how to write a thesis statement and conclusion this week and next.

This week we are continuing to do research for our persausive writing unit on "Avatar: The Last Airbender". Students will finish researching each different type of element bending this week and write a proposal which one they believe they would be. This proposal will be used to write their persausive essay.

 

We have begun our new book for this quarter, "Frindle"! 

 

Spelling words for this week are short -a and short -e words: shelf, ever, when, invent, spend, event, letter, rent, penny, clever

 

Challenge words: empire, pressure

We are sharing our personal narratives with our classmates and doing fun writing activities. We will also finish "Save Me a Seat".

This week we are practicing RACES reponses as well as continuing our Personal Narratives. Students will finish their rough drafts, edit, peer-review, and produce their final drafts this week! We will continue to read "Save Me a Seat" as well.

 

Please continue to review the vocabulary words from last week. Students will be tested on Friday.

We are learning how to identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story. They will use this knowledge to write their own narratives. They will continue to read "Save Me a Seat" and study their spelling words from last week.