Break Time!

Have a wonderful Spring Break!  Remember to read, read, read!

Here's a link to upcoming spelling words.  We will be on unit 26.  We took our unit 25 review test today.

http://highmail.highlands.k12.fl.us/~tarters/spelling

Terra Nova test scores are being sent home today.

Readers' Theatre

Today we worked on performing our Readers' Theatre, "Welcome to Chinatown," and we took our story vocabulary and comprehension assessment.

Unit 25 review spelling test is tomorrow.

Thank you to the students who made fun spelling word searches for our class to use!

Welcome to Chinatown

Today we read "Welcome to Chinatown" which can be found on pages 650-657.  This is a Readers' Theater production, so the focus is to be able to read fluently.  This story was a TV news feature, so the characters are reporters giving factual information on a real-life topic.  We also worked on the vocabulary for this story found on Practice Workbook page 143.  Tonight's homework is to reread the selection with an emphasis on each child being a fluent reader for their assigned role in this Readers' Theater.

Our Unit 25 Review spelling test will be given on Thursday.

Spelling Words

We will be working on spelling review unit 25 this week.  Due to our day off on Friday, we will be having our spelling review test on Thursday.  Here's a link to all spelling words:
http://highmail.highlands.k12.fl.us/~tarters/spelling

Today we completed Spelling workbook page 99-100.

Today we also worked on some fluency practice, and we continued our postcards from "Mangrove Wilderness."

Tomorrow we will read "Welcome To Chinatown."  It is a Reader's Theater activity.  

Mangrove Postcards

Today we took our spelling test.  The base words were much easier to study this week, so I'm anticipating very good scores.

We also continued to learn about Mangrove Wilderness, and we created factual postcards based upon this expository non-fiction story.

Here's a link to each unit's spelling words.  Next week is a review unit, unit 25.  Due to Spring Break, our spelling test will be given on Thursday.
http://highmail.highlands.k12.fl.us/~tarters/spelling

Pioneer Day

Today is our fun and educational Pioneer Day!

Tomorrow we will have a spelling test.  

Mangrove Wilderness Story Assessment

Today we read pages 644-645 in our reading book.  This was an encyclopedia article about mangrove trees.  Here's a short video about the mangrove tree:

http://vimeo.com/57894590

We took our story and vocabulary assessment today.  This genre of text was expository nonfiction (just the facts, only the facts!).

Tomorrow our language arts time will be minimal due to Pioneer Day.  We are looking forward to this fun activity.

Spelling test will be on Friday.  Words on this test are much easier to study if the base word is learned.  Adding the suffixes is the "easy" part!