Spelling for October 12-16

Please begin studying the words below. If you are unsure of the meaning of the words, please take a moment to look them up in the dictionary. Webster has an excellent online dictionary at http://m-w.com .

busy
among
building
young
enough
though
straight
rough
courage
eighth
system
although
sleigh
boulder
biscuit
dough
superficial
devastate
inheritance
decimal

Ms. Reid's information for October 12-16

The students have learned several new jingles and will be tested on those next week. Please have them study the jingles each night. We held off on helping verbs this past week in order to review the concepts that were taught prior to our little ‘vacation’ from school, so we will add those in next week. Please continue to encourage your son/daughter to come to me for help since we are building the foundations for our grammar study at this time. If they don’t get the concepts now, they will struggle for the remainder of the year!

We will have our first Cool Word test on Wednesday. They have the first nine words now and will receive the tenth word on Tuesday. They can and should be studying their words each night as they receive them as opposed to waiting until the night before the test.

We will continue to explore the basic elements of literature while also while reading The Rumpelstiltskin Problem. We will use the whole class model for exploring the next chapter. As we complete this chapter we will look at how Characterization is used within stories as a support to plot development.

Homework
Monday
Complete Independent Practice 6
Tuesday
Study your Cool Words!
Wednesday
Rumpelstiltskin Characterization
Thursday
Complete Independent Practice 7
Friday
Have a lovely evening!

Stuff Folder: I returned Independent Practice 3 this week. It should be glued in your son/daughter’s Interactive Notebook to page 5.