February 6 - 10, 2012
Reading
Workshop:
This week we will be reading A Mr. Rubbish Mood
from Judy Moody out of our basal and using it and other pictures books to
discuss author's purpose. We will be discussing how we can determine whether
an author wrote a story to entertain us, inform us, or persuade us to think or
feel something. Students will look at several different types of texts and
will answer questions over each. There will not be Home Readers this week due
to our Book Club Test on Friday, February 10th. Our actual Book Club
Day will not be until Friday, February 17th. If a student fails the Book
Club Test on Feb. 10th, I will give them an opportunity to retake the test for
a 70 on Friday, Feb. 17th. All Book Club Books will be due by Feb. 17th.
Grammar:
This week we will be talking about adjectives and students will design an
advertisement poster and present to the class.
Writing
Workshop: This
week we will continue working on gathering information for our Biography
Reports and will begin writing our Rough Drafts. We also will finish our
February Transformations.
Spelling:
(Test on Friday!)
Unit:
Vowel + R Sound in air and fear
1. air
2. wear
3. chair
4. stairs
5. bare
6. bear
7. hair
8. care
9. pear
10. pair
11. share
12. near
13. ear
14. beard
15. buy
16. year
17. earring
18. compare
BONUS WORDS:
1. complicated
2. pollution
Sentence: "Does that bear
wear an earring in her ear?" I asked.
**Homework this week:
Monday - Spelling WS; Finish Book Club Book
Tuesday
- Spelling WS
Wednesday
- Read for at least 20 minutes!
Thursday
- Study for spelling test
Handwriting: We
have started cursive! Please practice the following letters at home with your
child-i, u, w, s, p, j, r, t, e, c, o, a, d, q, and g
**Please send leveled readers back to school
each day as we use them during class! Thank you!