Testing Day 3

Students worked very hard today on their Reading and Language Terra Nova tests.  There will be two more test days...Monday and Tuesday.  January Book-it calendars were due today, but we had several "lates."  Please help your child to remember that Book-it does count as a homework assignment and is a free 100% in the gradebook for those children who complete the requirement.

Next week we will be practicing for our musical "Grammar Rocks" and we will also be practicing some grammar skills. There will NOT be a Tuesday night story to read, but there WILL be a Friday spelling test.  A newsletter with the spelling words went home today, as well as a note about the "Grammar Rocks" musical.  New Book-it calendars were also distributed today for February.

Six Flags Reading Club is optional and would need to be returned to your child's HOMEROOM teacher by February 19.

Testing, Day 2

No work this week, as we are taking Terra Nova tests.  Just keep reading at home for Book-it, which is due on Friday.  New Book-it calendars will be given out for February.

Testing

No work this week, as we are taking Terra Nova tests.  Just keep reading at home for Book-it, which is due on Friday.  New Book-it calendars will be given out for February.

Terra Nova Week

Our Terra Nova testing week begins on Monday.  We will be working very hard each morning to do a great job on our tests.  Students will be taking the tests in their homeroom.  Due to the testing week, students will not have language arts homework.  There will NOT be a spelling test at the end of the week, but you can study the words in advance for the first week of February.  Book-it calendars with a good quality book review ARE still due on January 31.

I Am an Artist

Today we read the poem "I Am an Artist," and we talked about different things that inspire our creativity.  We also wrote short autobiographies and started a self portrait.

Tomorrow we have a spelling test, so we practiced by completing Spelling workbook pages 69-70.

Please read at home for Book-it.

Autobiographies

Today we reviewed "Just Like Me" and completed our story and vocabulary selection test.  This selection was written from an autobiographical point of view as each artist shared their inspiration for creating artwork.  We will be working on our own short autobiographies and creating our own self portraits.

We completed vocabulary page 97 in our Practice workbook.

Students should read for Book-it as a homework requirement.  Calendars are still due January 31.  There will be a regularly scheduled spelling test on Friday.

Just Like Me

Today we worked on learning our new spelling words which end with ar/er/or, and we completed spelling workbook pages 67 and 68.

We also learned the important vocabulary words for our new story, "Just Like Me," found on pages 444-455 in our reading book.  Tonight's homework assignment is to reread this story and return the story sheet tomorrow.  This story is an autobiography, and we will be working to create our own autobiographies in class this week.