Conferences on Thursday and Friday

Module assessment on the computer ( this will be shown at conferences), introducing our new module about inventors, comparing and contrasting, finishing up our expository essays, and continuing to work on main idea and supporting details. 

Reading a historical fiction story and taking a quiz on the story, comparative adverbs, reviewing adverbs and verbs, expository essay, vocabulary, contractions, and chronological order. 

We will be going over vocabulary, reading a new story ( a biography) and taking a quiz on it, combining sentences, using context clues to figure out work, and figurative language. 

Reading a non fiction story on octopuses and taking a quiz on this story. Students will also be reviewing singular and plural nouns and verbs. This week we will also be finishing up our graphic organizer for our expository essays and I will be conferencing with them about their essays. We will also be going over text features, figurative language, authors purpose, and main idea and supporting details. 

Finishing up DIBELS testing, starting our expository essays, text features, read "This is your Life Cycle" and take comprehension quiz on it, and we will be learning new figurative language. Reviewing nouns (common, proper, singular, and plural) prefixes (uni-, bi-, and tri-)

 

NO SCHOOL MONDAY

 

Working on our narrative fiction writing, figurative language, reading a new story Brothers At Bat. We will take a quiz on this story, working on contractions, verbs, nouns, and adjectives. All these skills will be reinforced in Literacy centers this week. 

Homophones and homographs 

Literacy elements ( characters, settings, problem, solution, etc.) 

Theme of a story 

subject verb agreement 

Annotating texts 

New vocab 

Greek root bio- 

Latin root vid- 

Vowel dipthongs -oi -oy

 

Consonant diagraphs, readers theatre performances ( for our class only, this is a little test run to see how it goes I plan on doing another in the future where parents will be allowed to come and watch, this will be in the spring so we can be outside for it) , character traits, text features, plot of a story and using this to write our fictional narrative stories, and we will be taking our module test in 3 separate parts this week on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. 

What are we doing? 

Suffixes –er/-or and how it changes what the word means, using context clues to figure out unknown words, irregular plural nouns, Narrative writing specifically working on characters, their traits, and the setting of our stories, story maps for stories. We will also be reading the play Two Bear Cubs.  

What are we doing? 

Singular and possessive nouns, starting reading plays in Module 4, talk about how we speak and read in plays and why that matters, descriptive writing, vocab, facts vs. Fiction  

What are we doing?  

Divide by 8,9,0, and 1, division word problems, math centers, and review for Ch. 4 test next week. Review will be sent home this week it is not homework.  

What are we doing?  

Writing prompt (brainstorm for 5 minutes, write for 13 minutes), multiple meaning words, context clues to solve words, finish reading Why Is the Statue of Liberty Green? then take quiz, Central/ main idea and supporting details, commas in a series, abstract and concrete nouns, do first, second, and third paragraphs in descriptive writing, part one of module assessment, and games for Halloween 

What are we doing?  

We are working on figuring out words using context clues, words with multiple meanings, commas in a series of nouns, text features in non-fiction texts, vocabulary related to our readings, reading the story Flag Maker, we will take a quiz on this, and finally we will be working on our new writing which is a descriptive essay.  

The descriptive essay will be them describing their favorite place and what they do at that place.  It can be grandma’s house, the zoo, the mall, or anywhere they have been.