Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we learned that readers expect to learn alongside their characters. We will do this by thinking about life lessons Opal, the main character from “Because of Winn-Dixie”, learned and how we can attribute that to our lives. We will also learn that readers celebrate the lessons characters have learned that apply to their own lives. We will do that by reading in our partnerships and discussing those life lessons.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we started our next Writers Workshop unit, opinion/argument writing. We will learn how to collect ideas like an essayist. We will also complete a couple of sections in our data binders. The sections we will complete are our mid-year goals and our quick write reflection page. We will look at our first quick write piece and compare that to our most recent quick write piece to see how we have grown as a writer.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is letter blends (-sh,-ch,-th,-wr, and –tch)

shape

church

watch

father

wrap

check

finish

sharp

mother

write

catch

chase

shall

thick

wrote

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their January reading log. Those reading logs will be due February 2^nd.

Scholastic book orders will be placed on Friday January 30^th. This is a change from what was placed on the book order. Please make sure to have those book orders in by this Friday. Don’t forget, the more books you and your child order help us get more books for our classroom.