This week we will:

At home:

Happy Friday families!

 

We had a busy week coming back from break and hit the ground running!

 

Next week we will be reading about why we celebrate 4th of July and discussing text structure, retelling, and summarizing.

 

We will also start writing our detailed essay about our favorite place. At home you can help by asking your student what their favorite place is and how they can describe it!

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Welcome back to our Second Quarter!!

 

It is great to see our students back in school and get to hear about their time off.

 

This week we will be starting our Unit 3: Let Freedom Ring!

 

This week we will be reading a book about the U.S. Constitution and discussing the Author's Purpose and the Central Idea of the text.

 

We will also read All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlin and using it as an anchor text to write descriptive essays about our Favorite Places. 

Dear Families, 

 

This week we will:

-Work on Visualizing and Character Traits

-Predicting the text based on the pictures, story, and background knowledge. 

-Working on the suffix -y and -ly

-Synonyms and antonyms

-Capitalizing nouns and capitalizing titles.

 

At home optional work:

 

-Students should read 20-30 minutes a day.

-Have students talk about what they read. Summarize ideas, expand what they are visualizing when they read, and even come up with different endings/characters/events.

 

Have a wonderful week, 

Marcela Thomas

Hello Families! We had a great week reading about Carlitos and Charlie, two cousins that live far away from each other and enjoy writing letters to talk about their lives on a Mexican Farm vs a big city in the USA. 

 

This week we will be:

 

-Working the prefixes re- and pre-

-Working on writing a letter to a friend or loved one

-Practicing typing

-Reading a Memoir story and working on Figurative language

- Practicing our Long i spelling

 

Optional things you can do at home:

-Reading books! Have your child read about 20 minutes a day (or you can read to them!) If you need help finding books at your child's reading level, please email me and I can help!

-Practice typing. Students take the CMAS at the end of this school year and they have to type their answers. If you want and have the time, have your child practice typing every now and then. 

-Get your child a journal and encourage them to write on it. Make writing fun and interesting by coming up with stories together. 

We worked hard this past week finding the theme and figurative language in different stories. Here is what we have coming up this week:

 

We will be practicing making inferences, identifying theme in a fantasy story, and text and graphic features in a graphic novel.

 

In writing we will finish our first draft of our personal narrative.

 

Have a wonderful week, 

 

Marcela Thomas

Hello Families, 

 

We are going to have a busy week ahead of us! 

 

In reading we are going to be disusing Theme, figurative language, and Literary elements such as setting and characters.

 

In writing we will start a writing journal. Students have talked about ideas for their personal narratives and this week they will start writing their ideas and working on a first rough draft.

 

Optional Homework: Students should read 20-30 minutes a day. I am happy to recommend books that meet your child's independent reading level.

Hello Families, 

 We have survived the first week of school! Students worked hard on team building activities and we have started our first ELA unit.

 

Our essential question in Unit 1 is: What makes a character Interesting? Friday we read "Zach Jumps In!" and talked about character traits. Students did a great job reading our story and coming up with traits for our character map.

 

This upcoming week we will read "Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match" and discuss making predictions and literary elements (character, setting, plot, and events). In grammar, we will explore the subject and predicate of a sentence and discuss sentence fragments. 

 

On Thursday we will be taking our ELA Map test.

 

Optional but recommended homework: Students are recommended to read 20-30 minutes a day. This can be the student reading the whole time or a mix between them reading part of the time and then having a story read to them.  This can be any book of their choosing. If you would like recommendations for books that meet your individual child's independent reading level, please email me! I have lots of recommendations!

 

Have a wonderful week, 

Marcela Thomas