Weekly Class Work Skills (10/3/16-10/7/16)~Week 9

Language Arts
Comprehension Tool Kit
Skills for Comprehension~
Inner voice, tracking (post it notes), straying, mind movie, recording in margins, making a “mind movie”, reread for comprehension, jot thoughts and feelings, merge your learning/thinking, text feature (visual/text), facts vs. misconceptions, asking good questions / Interactive Read Aloud
Sequencing, visualizing, summarizing, compare/contrast, main idea & details, asking & answering good questions
LANGUAGE
I CAN~ successfully identify, write, and apply the following skills.
~common/proper nouns, possessive nouns, complete sentences/sentence fragments, subject/predicate, subject/object nouns, simple/compound/complex/sentences, regular/irregular/plural/abstract nouns, regular/irregular verbs, verb tenses
Ongoing: capitalization, punctuation, spelling, proper way to identify and capitalize titles
SPELLING
Sitton~ Week Lesson 9
Dictation Test Friday
I CAN SPELL THE FOLLOWING WORDS CORRECTLY~
were / there / been / use / also
around / air / might / show / large
often / took / four / kind / above
head / began / table / circle / eagle
whistle / simple
/ PHONICS
I CAN IDENTIFY, PRONOUNCE, & WRITE THE FOLLOWING WORDS WITH THE GIVEN SKILLS & PATTERNS BELOW~
Skill~ syllables~ frequent spelling patterns for /i/: y, igh, ind, i, i-consonant-e, syllables
Pattern~ Make SURE you study these phonics skills! They come home daily for homework!!! / WRITING
I CAN IDENTIFY AND WRITE THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF WRITING~
Personal Narrative writing
Final Copy is due at the end of the 9 weeks for a SUMMATIVE grade!
Web is a FORMATIVE grade due Wednesday. SUMMATIVE narrative writing due Friday!
MATH~1st NINE WEEKS CC OBJ. WEEK 9
I CAN SUCCESSFULLY SOLVE & COMPLETE THE SKILLS LISTED~
Skill~ Unit 5~ Bar Modeling ~Test Wednesday!!
Cumulative review Ch. 1-2 (Friday)
***Pretest are given before every new chapter begins! Please go over all pretest and review any problems that your child missed!!! They will see them again on the Post Test!!! Ch. Summative Test once the unit is complete!!!
Social Studies
I CAN EXPLAIN, IDENTIFY, AND APPLY information from current unit~ Unit Chapter8
Skill~ Unit Chapter8 ~ Government
Lesson Review~OPEN BOOK TEST Thursday!!!
TYPES OF GENRES
Narrative poem~ tells a humorous story
Fable~ a story that teaches a lesson or moral
Tall tale~ a story that uses exaggeration
Expository text~ describes real things and places
Realistic fiction~ a story that could really happen
Fairy Tale~ imaginary story that includes heroic acts, often begins “Once upon a time” and ends “and they lived happily ever after”, characters are usually all good or all bad.
Fantasy~ make-believe events and situations that could not happen
Drama~ uses a dialogue to present characters and plot
Narrative Nonfiction~ tells about real people and real events
Biography~ story about a persons life, written by another person
Narrative Folk Tale~
Historical Fiction~
WEEKLY TEST SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
Spelling Test
Language Skill Quiz
Math Facts Test / FRIDAY
Math Test~ Quizzes are given weekly on Common Core objectives. These problems come directly from the packet of problems we complete each day in class!!(please see MATH portion of this letter for more details)
Lucy Calkins Writing~ Final copy due at the end of the week (we are doing this in class together)