Welcome back! This week we will be going over rules and procedures while getting to know one another.
August 15- August 19
Our focus for this week is to become familiar with inferencing. Inferencing is a critical reading comprehension skill which will help students improve their skills on making conclusions. We will also be working with verbs and verb tenses.
August 22- August 26
The skill that we are focusing on this week is main idea. We will also be talking about how to support the main idea with supporting details. Our language focus is on picking out perfect tense verbs.
August 29- September 2
This week we will be focusing on theme. Our schedule will be a little off this week due to our Library Day and county wide Pre-Assessments.
September 6-September 9
Our focus for this week will be on theme. We will also start to touch on point of view. The students will have a spelling test and a content test on Friday. The content test will cover things that we have been talking about since school has started.
September 12- September 16
We are focusing on Point of View this week. Students will be reading multiple texts, and they will have to pick out from which point of view the text is being told. We are still working on perfect verb tenses. Students will have a Spelling Test on Friday.
September 19- September 23
This week we are touching up on our theme, main idea, and point of view skills. We will also be working a lot with verbs, as well as nouns. Students will have a Spelling Test and Quiz on Friday.
September 26- September 30
This week we are going to start reading a novel. The novel is titled, Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac. This is a Civil War novel which relates to what they are talking about in Social Studies. We will be working on comma usage and similes as well.
October 17- October 21
Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed their Fall Break. This week we will have a Spelling Test on Friday. We are also continuing our reading of Iron Thunder. We are going to begin opinion writing.
November 7- November 11
Hello families! I am sorry that I have been a little behind on updating our class page. This week, we are going to be focusing on finishing up our opinion essays. We will be talking about different parts of speech, and the students will begin learning a song to help them recognize prepositions. Students will be able to sing this song to me for extra credit on Friday. I have attached the video below. The spelling test will be on Friday of this week.
November 28- December 2
Hello families! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break. This week we will be learning about cause and effect, and we will also be talking about comparing and contrasting. The students will be taking notes all week long on the parts of speech, and I will take a grade on this on Friday. They will also have a spelling test and a writing assignment on Friday.