Reading the Story Carrots, From Farm to Fork and take comprehension quiz 

Listening Comprehension assessment

Working on our opinion writing with the prompt: Is Deforestation an Issue Kids Should Worry About? 

Different Media in Stories (videos, sounds, etc.) 

Conjunctions 

Vocabulary Understanding 

 

We have Literacy CMAS on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. 

 

Friday we will do some literacy games and go outside and read! 

Conferences on Thursday and Friday

Module assessment on the computer ( this will be shown at conferences), introducing our new module about inventors, comparing and contrasting, finishing up our expository essays, and continuing to work on main idea and supporting details. 

Reading a historical fiction story and taking a quiz on the story, comparative adverbs, reviewing adverbs and verbs, expository essay, vocabulary, contractions, and chronological order. 

We will be going over vocabulary, reading a new story ( a biography) and taking a quiz on it, combining sentences, using context clues to figure out work, and figurative language. 

Reading a non fiction story on octopuses and taking a quiz on this story. Students will also be reviewing singular and plural nouns and verbs. This week we will also be finishing up our graphic organizer for our expository essays and I will be conferencing with them about their essays. We will also be going over text features, figurative language, authors purpose, and main idea and supporting details. 

Finishing up DIBELS testing, starting our expository essays, text features, read "This is your Life Cycle" and take comprehension quiz on it, and we will be learning new figurative language. Reviewing nouns (common, proper, singular, and plural) prefixes (uni-, bi-, and tri-)

 

NO SCHOOL MONDAY

 

Working on our narrative fiction writing, figurative language, reading a new story Brothers At Bat. We will take a quiz on this story, working on contractions, verbs, nouns, and adjectives. All these skills will be reinforced in Literacy centers this week. 

Homophones and homographs 

Literacy elements ( characters, settings, problem, solution, etc.) 

Theme of a story 

subject verb agreement 

Annotating texts 

New vocab 

Greek root bio- 

Latin root vid- 

Vowel dipthongs -oi -oy

 

Consonant diagraphs, readers theatre performances ( for our class only, this is a little test run to see how it goes I plan on doing another in the future where parents will be allowed to come and watch, this will be in the spring so we can be outside for it) , character traits, text features, plot of a story and using this to write our fictional narrative stories, and we will be taking our module test in 3 separate parts this week on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. 

What are we doing? 

Suffixes –er/-or and how it changes what the word means, using context clues to figure out unknown words, irregular plural nouns, Narrative writing specifically working on characters, their traits, and the setting of our stories, story maps for stories. We will also be reading the play Two Bear Cubs.  

What are we doing? 

Singular and possessive nouns, starting reading plays in Module 4, talk about how we speak and read in plays and why that matters, descriptive writing, vocab, facts vs. Fiction  

What are we doing?  

Divide by 8,9,0, and 1, division word problems, math centers, and review for Ch. 4 test next week. Review will be sent home this week it is not homework.