Hello! This week we will continue on with poetry. Students will be writing a ‘name’ poem and will have the opportunity to write their own choice of poem and present it to the class. Our spelling pattern this week is EA and EE. Please remember these spelling words are subject to change depending on the result of our spelling pretest:

Beads

Leaf

Leak

Read

Feed

Peek

Seed

Sleep

Three

Tea

Hello! This week we will be continuing to talk about poetry. We will be talking about different types of poems. We will look at cinquain and ‘I am’ poems and students will continue to write ‘I am’ poems. Our spelling words this week are:

Jail

Mail

Paint

Sail

Train

Play

Spray

Tray

Ray

Pay

Hello! This week we will start reading, discussing, and writing poetry. We will start by discussing what poetry is, what it can be, and looking at different types of poems. For spelling, we will be working on -s and -es. Our words are:

Dogs

Hippos

Keys

Pizzas

Wagons

Boxes

Babies

Lunches

Tomatoes

Wolves

Buses

Hello! This week we will do some close reading when it comes to nonfiction text and biographies and work on comprehension. For writing, we will be finishing up the writing in our journals. We will not have a spelling test this week due to the short week!

Hello! Here are the updated spelling words for the week!

 

haven't

you'll

he'd

how'll

what're

we're

they'll

that's

aren't

where'd

wouldn't

hadn't

Hello! This week we will continue to read different biographies and other non-fiction texts. For writing, we will finish the non-fiction writing that we are working on together and the students will be writing an informational paragraph about something they are an expert on. For spelling, we are working on contractions. Please remember our list will change depending on how the pretest goes. Our words are:

 

 

Hello! Here is the updated list of spelling words for the week!

 

Scrape

Scrub

Shrimp

Square

Throne

Strike

Squid

Squawk

Throbbed

Threw

Thrive

Hello! This week we will be talking about biographies, learning what they are and comparing and contrasting them. For spelling, we will be working on three-letter blends. Please remember these words are subject to change. Our words are: scrape, scrub, shred, shrimp, splat, sprint, square, throne, throb, strike, squid.

Hello! This week we will finish up our non-fiction research and put our final drafts together.  We will be working on double endings and -ck as our spelling pattern. Please remember this list is subject to change after we take our pretest. Our words are:

 

buzz

fizz

cuff

sniff

staff

press

toss

grill

troll

duck

neck 

pack

Hello! Here is the updated list of spelling words after looking at the results of today's pretest!

 

Act

Lungs

Desk

Wept

Swing

Largest

Fossil

World

Adult

Disable

Hello! This week we will finish up our research for our non-fiction writing unit. For reading, we will continue to talk about how to identify important parts of a text and we will talk about keywords in a text. For spelling, we will be working on final blends. As a reminder, these words are subject to change depending on the results of our pretest. Our words are: 

 

Act

Gift

Lamp

Wept

Pond

Swing

Sand

Plant

Vest

Desk

Lung

Hello! We will continue to talk about how to identify important information within a text. For writing, we will continue non-fiction writing and students will start researching their non-fiction topics. Our spelling pattern this week is initial blends. Please remember these words are subject to change depending on our pretest! Our words are: 

 

blimp

clock

globe

truck

crust

frame

snack

swan

skate

plug

drum