What a great Open House!!! I was so glad to meet all the families who were able to come out last week to learn more about what we will be focusing on this year in fifth grade.
By now you should be seeing planners, reading logs, and reading textbooks coming home nightly. Students should be reading a book of their choice and logging in responses from assigned reading activities in a reading log folder. Parent signatures are required and part of the grade.
This week we have begun Theme 1 in our reading textbook. The theme is Nature's Fury with stories centered around some kind of natural threat to the characters. You should see the reading textbook coming home from now on so the students can complete assignments throughout the week.
Reading
This week's focus is sequence. Students will practice reading and looking for sequence words in stories to help keep track of events in the text. Some examples of sequence words are: then, later, after that, as soon as, and, now, while.
Students also received their first vocabulary word list. They should have written definitions for the words on page 26 along with 4 others they copied from the board.
Students will have a test on their vocabulary words on Friday.
Spelling
Students also received their first spelling list this week. They were given a pretest so they would have a focused list of words to study throughout the week. This week's spelling focus is short vowels-short vowels that stand alone usually have a short vowel sound.
Writing
We are currently working on the narrative genre. Specifically students are learning how to write a story while using the writing process. Throughout the narrative genre study students will focus on characteristics of a good story.
Important dates
Classroom reading, vocabulary, spelling tests September 9
Benchmark testing begins September 12
F.A.I.R. September 21
Progress Reports September 22
Until next time,
R. O'Steen
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