It surely feels like the movie "Groundhog's Day" and we are repeating history each week with snow days and delays. Homework for this week is tentatively as follows:
Spelling - post test today ( Tuesday). We will have our next pretest on Thursday. The list will be composed of compound words and is as follows: watermelon, highway, jellyfish, fireworks, homemade, upstairs, touchdown, haircut, understand, thunderstorm, campfire, loudspeaker, sometimes, shortcut, skateboard, laptop, shoelace, doorbell, anyway, and flashlight.
Grammar- We will continue the lesson on subject/verb agreement. Quiz on this will be Friday.
Reading - Mrs. Nestor's class will have the test on Adelina's Whales tomorrow ( Wednesday). We will review skills and vocabulary ( fact/opinion and words biologist, bluff, massive, lagoon, rumbling, and tropical.) Students should also review the meaning of the root words bio( which means life), phono ( which means sounds), photo ( picture), and graph ( written word or symbol). Mrs. Reinoehl's class will be starting the next story "How Night Came From the Sea" which is a myth. The skill for this story is generalization. Generalizations are broad statements applied to many examples. They include words such as all, most, always, usually, or generally. Generalizations can be valid ( sensible) or invalid ( not true or sensible). The vocabulary for this story is as follows: brilliant, chorus, coward, gleamed, and shimmering. Homework will be determined by what is covered in school but students should be reading their AR books and study the vocabulary words.
Science - We are starting ecosystems. We will be studying and talking about living and nonliving things. Carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores. We will discuss habitats, populations, consumers, producers, and decomposers. We will study and create food chains and food webs.
VO - we are scheduled to take a test this morning (Tuesday)
