March 19th- The fourth and final quarter has begun. Please make sure your child has paper, pens, and pencils for class. Our story this week is Leah's Pony. The vocabulary words are sturdy, items, clustered, bidding, overflowing, and glistened. The assignment tonight is to finish the vocabulary definitions and complete pages 227 and 228 in the practice book.
March 20th-no homework
March 21st-comprehension check
March 22nd-no homework
March 26th-Monday Finish definitions. Complete practice page 236.
March 27th-Tuesday practice page 237. On back of cause/effect chart done in class today.
March 28th-Wed. Comprehension Check for The Gold Rush Game.
March 29th-Thurs. no homework
April 2nd-page 245 in practice book
April 10th-Tuesday Page 254 in practice book. Finish definitions for vocabulary words: technique, evaporate, foolishness, magnify, inspire, annual.
April 11th-Wednesday Do comprehension check for Snowflake Bentley.
April 12th-Thursday no homework
April 16th-Monday pg 263 vocabulary worksheet
April 17th-Tuesday- no homework
April 18th-Wednesday-reread story and answer comprehension questions 1-5.
April 19th-Thursday no homework
April 23rd-Monday no homework
April 24-27th no homework
April 30th-Monday-no homework
May 1st-Tuesday-no homework
May 2nd-Wednesday-no homework
May 3rd-Thursday-finish final copy of Ben Franklin report if not completed in class.
May 7th-no homework
May 8th-no homework
May 9th-No homework. We have been spending the week on study skills to help with next year. I have showed and your child has practiced arranging notes in different formats. We have made formal outlines, placed information in chronological order, made topic graphs, and summarized after finding facts. I have sent the papers home with the students so they can have a reference. The main focus has been on pulling the facts out of an article and rearranging them in a format that makes sense to the student. This method helps put the information into our brain filing cabinets that make it easier to recall. I had the students do this with several paragraphs and then quizzed them after their lesson. They almost all knew all the answers with only about 20 minutes of reorganizing the material. I am hoping they carry this practice into their future studies.
May 14-18th-no homework. We are reading novels as a group and having a period of silent sustained reading each day. Some students are reading their summer reading books and some have another novel.
