Week 15 Announcments

Parents,

The last two weeks have been very chaotic! We’ve had three benchmark tests and scattered instructional days. This week I am very excited to be back on normal schedule! We will have 5 straight days of instruction before we let out for one week of Thanksgiving break!

Reading

This week will be covering or reviewing several things. Before we began testing, we were covering main idea in fiction stories. Our students know that main idea is what the text is mostly or mainly about. This week we will extend that idea and apply it to non-fiction texts. Remember that main idea asks us to add up the most important details into a concluding statement. Sometimes students get this confused with picking out one important detail, but main idea includes several important details.

Writing

I’m sad to say that this will be the last week of formal lessons on writing narratives (at least until STAAR gets a little closer). We will review the writing process and use it to write a narrative throughout out the week. When we get back from Thanksgiving break, we will move onto Expository writing. In conventions, we will discuss antonyms, synonyms, quotations, and subject-verb agreement.

Sight Words

Parents, this will be our first week of sight word homework. Up until now, we’ve been completing many of these tasks in class, but as the year goes on and we continue to raise the rigor in our classroom, we will move this work out the classroom and hold our students accountable for learning beyond the school day.

Sight Word Work is due at the end of each week (on Fridays!)

Monday:     Write each word 5 times each

 

Consider

Consider

Consider

Consider

Tuesday:     Write each word using stairstep spelling ( students should know what this is)!

c
co
cop
copy

Wednesday: Write each sight word in a sentence.

The property is normally closed off to the public.

Thursday:     Define each sight word and provide a synonym and antonym if possible.

 

replace: to swap out or exchange

This weeks Sight Words:
 

compare	consider	copy
design	interesting	distance
property	replace	entire

Reading Logs:

Now that we are back on a regular routine, reading logs will be check each day. Parents, please remember that reading logs need to be signed and checked every day, and they will be turned in on Friday!

Benchmark scores and other info!

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