I was very pleased with the progress reports that went home last Thursday. So many of the students are really putting forth their best effort everyday in class. We are beginning to get our schedule down as students should now be organized with their materials and know the routines and expectations in the classroom. Please remember if you ever have any questions write them in the planner as I check it every morning and can answer questions quickly then!
Reading
This week our focus in Reading will be categorizing and classifying. This is a skill most used in nonfiction texts to help students keep up with facts in the passage. However it can be applied in fiction by listing facts about characters that fall into categories like how they look, how they act, things they like etc.
The text we will use this week is Volcanoes in the reading textbook. Students will be assigned the vocabulary on pg 82-82 along with the words eruption, magma, and summit. This week students will answer the questions at the end of the story on pg 100 for homework on Wednesday night. This can be completed in their reading log folder as their read and log in response.
Language
Spelling
This week's focus is the long o sound and the oo sound as in boo. Look for a pretest from Monday with a focused list of words to study that they missed.
Writing
This week students will continue the narrative writing genre. We will focus on the editing and publishing steps of the writing process. By the end of the week students should have a narrative piece of writing to turn as the first of two narratives due.
Please continue to monitor your child's planner and reading log folder for assignments and sign it nightly.
September 30......reading tests and published story due
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