Monday, April 27, 2015

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

We finished up our narrative nonfiction unit last week and this week we will be starting our research report reading workshop lessons. We will learn about becoming experts on shared nonfiction topics. We will also learn about pursuing collaborative inqui9ries with commitment.

WRITING NEWS:

We will be starting our research report unit by creating some basic reports using graphic organizers to help get us used to imputing data and putting data in our own words.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is adding -ing. 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.

coming
skating
taking
giving
choosing
smiling
baking
sliding
changing
waving
leaving
making
hoping
trading
having

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 April reading log. Those reading logs will be due May 1st

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Monday, April 20, 2015

April Scholastic Book Orders

Scholastic book orders will be placed on Thursday, April 30th. Please make sure to have those book orders in by that Thursday. Don’t forget, the more books you and your child order help us get more books for our classroom. If you’re ordering online please use our classroom code, JJQRM.

Thanks,


-Ian Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be continuing our narrative nonfiction reading workshop lessons. We will learn about achievement texts and disaster texts, two templates in narrative nonfiction. We will also learn about envisioning (an other strategies) to figure out unfamiliar words.

WRITING NEWS:

We finished our final drafts of our personal essays! We will be starting research reports soon.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is compound words. 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.

herself
nobody
airplane
grandfather
someone
rainbow
anything
grandmother
everything
afternoon
sunshine
himself
anybody
something
without

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 April reading log. Those reading logs will be due May 1st

Monday, April 13, 2015

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be starting our narrative nonfiction reading workshop lessons. We will work on identifying nonfiction text structures and adjusting the students reading. We will also practice reading nonfiction narratives as stories with main characters.

WRITING NEWS:

We finished our final drafts of our personal essays! We will be starting research reports soon.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is adding a suffix (-ly). 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.

slowly
mainly
badly
hourly
suddenly
lately
partly
closely
really
lastly
plainly
loudly
shortly
monthly
softly


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 April reading log. Those reading logs will be due May 1st