Sunday, November 16, 2008

November 16th

This week at a glance:

Writing: We begin writing narrative introductions this week. In Narrative introductions, we include a writer's craft: Simile. Practice saying/writing several similes this week!

Reading: We will finish reading the story " My Diary, from here to there" and make inferences using our organizers. We will have a comprehension quiz on Tuesday that will include vocabulary from the story.
Vocabulary words: overheard, opportunities, border, unions, strikes, citizen, and boycotts.

Homework: Reading log: students must read for 15 minutes and retell what they read to an adult or older sibling. Various worksheets this week focusing on similes and Narrative introductions.

Spelling: Digraphs th, sh, wh, and ph.
This weeks words are:
1. rush
2.northern
3.brush
4. shed
5. thanks
6. washer
7. photo
8. graph
9. whole
10. these
11. fifth
12. whisk
13. thirty
14. bother
15. shove
16.phrase
17.headphone
18. width
19.nowhere
20. whirl
21. cheap
22. arch
23. initially
24.theater
25. wherever

5 comments:

veralyn said...

when can my child start to blog?

Anonymous said...

I love this blog!!!

Virginia said...

Thanks for this communication tool. I am sure it will help us all to stay on track together as a class.

thatkelleygirl said...

Any student can blog by leaving a comment on our blog. We will phase into writing on the blog for some homework. Then by the end of the school year, the students should have their own blog:)

Alexia said...

Ms.Kelley how do we do our letters on here? Alexia