Important Dates:
Wednesday, January 30 – Lunch Bunch
Thursday, January 31 – Book Log Due
Thursday, January 31 – PIE WARS starts
Friday, February 1 – Spirit Day
Friday, February 1 -- Box Tops Due
Friday, February 1 – Dolvin’s Math Night
Grammar: We will continue our unit on verbs and verb tense. We will continue to review action verbs (direct objects and singular/plural spellings), linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, and subject-verb agreement, Participles/Principal Parts of verbs. This week we will continue working on the 3 perfect tenses (past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect). There will be a unit test in a few weeks.
Spelling-List 7 will be passed out this week. Their lists should stay in their binders through the school year. On this quiz, we will begin including 5 review words from past lists. Students will have 15 words from the current pattern, and 5 review words from a previous pattern. Remember to study both the spelling and the definitions. If you would like for your child to have extra practice with their spelling words, they may use Spelling City website: https://www.spellingcity.com/pratta. The quiz will be in about 2 weeks.
Writing: We are continuing our unit on opinion writing. We will continue working on supporting our opinion or stance with valid reasons to back it up! The students will practice including evidence from a piece of text to help support their opinion. We will also work on including a counter-argument to help prove your stance! We will practice identifying the parts of the essay with samples, and also grade some samples on our rubric. You can practice this at home, by making your student give valid reasons for doing things at home! Make them convince you!! (Examples: where to eat, screen time, play dates, etc.) Look for examples, notes and the rubric in your student’s binder.
Reading: We will continue our Folklore (dramas, fables, folktales, fairytales, myths, and legends). Students will be reviewing what makes a folktale a folktale, attributes of all folklore, as well as the structure of dramatic literature. We will also be reviewing all of the story elements, theme, setting, characterization, conflict resolution, and tone/mood. This week we are focusing on folktales, fables and myths. The January book review has been passed out. Students should have this in their binder. Students will need to read TWO 150-page books on their level and this will be due on Thursday, January 31st with parent signature. If your child is participating in Lunch Bunch, they may use this as one of their books for the month. If your student has questions on their book, please remind them to come chat with me!