Welcome back to school after a nice Thanksgiving break. Now on to the hectic holiday season! Homework for this week is TENTATIVELY planned as follows. Please refer to the homework assignment book daily as with this month being very busy, we may or may not get everything finished in school and homework may change. Thanks for your understanding.
Spelling - We are not working on any spelling list this week. We are playing catch up right now and aiming to coordinate the reading, grammar, and spelling to the same story theme. We will have our next spelling pretest NEXT Monday, December 8. The list will go along with the story "Horse Heroes". The words are as follows: Thanksgiving, young, whisper, trunk, among, wheel, elephant, strong, think, nephew, white, blink, blank, belong, shrink, chunk, graph, whiskers, wharf, skunk. The challenge words are: strengthen, bankrupt, phantom, whimsical, and whatever.
Grammar- We are working on irregular plural nouns. Students will have homework Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to practice. Irregular plural nouns are words such as child/children, deer/deer, moose/moose, leaf/leaves, man/men, go/went/gone, wife/wives, life/lives, tooth/teeth, shelf/shelves, ox/oxen, wolf/wolves, mouse/mice, goose/geese, foot/feet, etc... Tuesday the homework will be to complete workbook page 134, and 141; Wednesday's homework will be to complete workbook p. 169. Thursday's homework will be to study irregular plurals and to find 10 irregular plurals in the play ( in reading textbook) Scene Two. The 10 irregular plurals are to be written in the reading notebooks. Friday will be a quiz on this.
reading - We are continuing practicing our play "Scene Two" which is found in the reading textbook. We will spend the next 2-3 days practicing in our assigned play groups and then taking time on Friday to perform the play for some kindergarten-third grade classrooms. Homework for this week will be to practice your parts. We will have a test on this story NEXT Monday, December 8. The skills we are focusing on for this story are drawing conclusions, using prefixes in words, and using our vocabulary words in correct context. The vocabulary words are : advice, argument, arrangements, descendants, dishonest, script, and snag. We are also going to be writing Cinquain poems. Cinquain poems are five line poems following this format: the first and fifth lines contain 2 syllables, the second line contains 4 syllables, the third line contains 6 syllables, and the fourth line contains 8 syllables. An example is posted below.
SNOWFLAKES
CRYSTALLINE BEAUTIES
DANCING, TWIRLING, FLOATING
SOFTLY INTO A WHITE BLANKET
WINTER
Science
We are continuing lessons 2 - 3 in chapter 3. Homework will be determined based on the amount of material we get completed in class.
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