Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be working on building our reading stamina by reading long and strong from our book boxes. We will practice any strategy we have learned so far this year.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how to support big ideas from stories with evidence from their own lives by reading a couple of short stories and thinking about how they relate to our own lives. We will also learn how to create opinion statements for our own personal essays by using a graphic organizer to help us capture our thoughts on opinions.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is letter blends (-or, -ar, -ore, and –oar). Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

story

wore

north

board

form

corner

warm

score

morning

forget

before

storm

tore

order

war

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 February reading log. Those reading logs will be due March 2^nd.